‘Pragmatic complexity’ a new foundation for moving beyond ‘evidence-based policy making’?

Ansell, Christopher; Geyer, Robert

doi:10.1080/01442872.2016.1219033

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“…In this section, we critique these theories for neglecting the psychological state’s experimental form. Drawing on the insights of critical sociologies of experimental trials (Ansell and Geyer, 2017; Cartwright, 2007; Gross and Krohn, 2005; Pallet, 2012), we explore the notion of the experimental state and suggest that it provides important perspectives on hitherto overlooked epistemological, constitutional and ethical dimensions of psychological government. The next section considers how psychological experimentation is reshaping the apparatuses of states, highlighting the relationship between experimental government and flat bureaucratic structures.…”

Section: Introduction: the Experimental State And Psychological Govermentioning

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‘Politics done like science’: Critical perspectives on psychological governance and the experimental state

Jones

Whitehead

2018

Environ Plan D

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There has been a growing academic recognition of the increasing significance of psychologicallyand behaviourally-informed modes of governance in recent years in a variety of different states. We contend that this academic research has neglected one important theme, namely the growing use of experiments as a way of developing and testing novel policies. Drawing on extensive qualitative and documentary research, this paper develops critical perspectives on the impacts of the psychological sciences on public policy, and considers more broadly the changing experimental form of modern states. The tendency for emerging forms of experimental governance to be predicated on very narrow, socially disempowering, visions of experimental knowledge production is critiqued. We delineate how psychological governance and emerging forms of experimental subjectivity have the potential to enable more empowering and progressive state forms and subjectivities to emerge through more open and collective forms of experimentation.

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Section: Introduction: the Experimental State And Psychological Govermentioning

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‘Politics done like science’: Critical perspectives on psychological governance and the experimental state

Jones

Whitehead

2018

Environ Plan D

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“…Applied to policy and governance, Complexity is a rejection of the traditional modernist world view of order, causality, reductionism, predictability and determinism that marks the foundation of the more extreme versions of New Public Management (NPM) and Evidence-Based Policy Making (EBPM). Complexity overlaps with the pragmatist policy tradition (Ansell and Geyer 2017;Sanderson 2009) and reminds us that policymakers operate in a continually shifting environment and, whilst some norms and institutions are relatively stable, others are in almost constant flux. Policy-makers must accept uncertainty and change as features of complex systems and realise that policymaking is often as much art as it is science.…”

Section: Development and Dynamics Of Eu Health Policy: A Complexity Pmentioning

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The development of EU health policy and the Covid-19 pandemic: trends and implications

Brooks

Geyer

2020

Journal of European Integration

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“…17 Dolowitz andMarsh 2000;Benson andJordan 2011. 18 Ansell andGeyer 2017;Cairney 2015;Geyer 2012. In this article, we do not have the space to explore these debates in detail. Nevertheless, our comparative discourse analysis of the Chinese and UK policies shines a distinctive light on the importance of policy learning/transfer and at the same time, the inherent limits and difficulties of such learning and the need to continually critically evaluate and assess it.…”

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Antidepressant Advertising in China and the UK: The Strengths and Limits of Policy Learning

Geyer¹,

Wang

2019

The China Quarterly

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China is expected to become one of the largest markets for prescription drugs in the world and pharmaceutical advertising is becoming increasingly important, particularly in the socially and culturally contested area of mental health. This article briefly explores the background of drug advertising policies in China and the UK and focuses on the distinctive challenges of antidepressant drug regulation. Then, using tools of critical discourse analysis, it examines Chinese antidepressant adverts, and compares them with relevant British adverts. The findings indicate that, relative to the UK, Chinese antidepressant adverts are generally oversimplified, and the critical information concerning the concepts of caution, danger and adverse effects are underrepresented. However, there are many interdependent factors that contribute to the distinctive Chinese antidepressant drug regulatory regime. Hence, Chinese policymakers must maintain a delicate balance between learning from Western regulatory regimes, but also avoiding borrowing too heavily from them.

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‘Pragmatic complexity’ a new foundation for moving beyond ‘evidence-based policy making’?

Cited by 51 publications

References 83 publications

‘Politics done like science’: Critical perspectives on psychological governance and the experimental state

‘Politics done like science’: Critical perspectives on psychological governance and the experimental state

The development of EU health policy and the Covid-19 pandemic: trends and implications

Antidepressant Advertising in China and the UK: The Strengths and Limits of Policy Learning

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