Making visible the politics and ethics of alcohol policy research

The Politics and Analytics of Health Policy

Let us start with an example of health policy analysis in action. Within that category of countries loosely known as ‘the West’, quite basic differences exist in attitudes to health policy and also actual health policy. Comparing the US with mainland Europe and indeed Canada, for example, one perceives a difference in attitude on the part of the majority towards collectivism and individualism i...

Agricultural Biotechnology, Politics, Ethics, and Policy

T he aim of this chapter is to address the policy, regulatory, and ethical issues surrounding agricultural biotechnology. The chapter provides background on the shaping of policy and on regulatory frameworks within the European Union and the United States, among others, as well as outlining the global framework in which all countries have to operate. In addition it summarizes the United Nations...

Ingredients for Good Health Policy-Making: Incorporating Power and Politics into the Mix

Ethics and Politics in Qualitative Research

Getting straight on ethics in qualitative research is not an internal matter only. Putting ethics and politics together is the right move intellectually, but it engages a major agenda beyond adjustments in qualitative theory and methods. The overall issue is the Enlightenment mind and its progeny. Only when the Enlightenment’s epistemology is contradicted will there be conceptual space for a mo...

studying the effect of policy research in policy making area

the purpose of this research is studying the effect of policy research in policy making area. for this, has been used from a model that is presented by dukeshire and thurlow. this model is consist from four dimension; recognizing problems and identifying issues, understanding key issues, supporting a selected plan of action and monitoring process evaluating impact. in a survey among policy rese...