Democratic Environmental Experimentalism

The New Experimentalism

The New Experimentalism, Topical Hypotheses, and Learning from Error Author(s): Deborah G. Mayo Source: PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. 1994, Volume One: Contributed Papers (1994), pp. 270-279 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Philosophy of Science Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/193032 Acce...

Minimalism and Experimentalism in the Administrative State

Minimalism is our name for the dominant liberal perspective on public policy implementation in contemporary legal scholarship. Minimalism emphasizes public interventions that incorporate market concepts and practices and that centralize and minimize administrative discretion. This essay appraises Minimalism in relation to a competing liberal view of the administrative state. Experimentalism emp...

New experimentalism applied to evolutionary computation

Reforming Environmental Law : The Democratic Case for Market Incentives

What is a “Democratic Experiment”

This paper examines a key concept of democratic experimentalism, asking what is a “democratic experiment”? Starting with Donald Campbell’s argument in favor of an experimenting society, the paper critically examines whether randomized controlled experiments should be the gold standard for democratic experimentalism. This tradition of experimentalism, it is argued, values the verification of kno...