Understanding evidence and behavioral responses: Future directions in evidence‐based policy‐making

Bédard, Pierre‐Olivier

doi:10.1111/capa.12223

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“…In debates over highly emotional issues, evidence often plays a secondary role in policy makers' decision making and the formation of public opinion (Freiberg and Carson 2010). This is especially true for issues that involve risk-management, given that our perception of risk can be heavily influenced by our culture, values, and emotions (Bédard 2017). When people disapprove of an activity they are more likely to overestimate the danger of that activity, and vice versa (Freiberg and Carson 2010;Kahan and Braman 2003), leading to sometimes disproportionate policy responses.…”

Section: Evidence-based Policy Making (Ebpm) and Policy Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These laws were further tightened in 1991 with the creation of Bill C-17, which introduced a requirement for license applicants to undergo a mandatory firearms safety course, provide a sign-off from their spouse or intimate partner on their application. The bill also introduced a 28-day minimum waiting period for license processing, 3 created safe storage requirements for firearms, and limited magazine capacity for semi-automatic rifles to 5-rounds (Brown 2012; Fleming, McLean, and Tatalovich 2018; Mauser and Buckner 1997).…”

Section: Sor/98-462 and Bill C-21 – Ban On “Assault-style” Firearmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Firearms in Canada are much more tightly controlled than in the United States. Handguns have been regulated in Canada since the 1890s (Brown 2012). Long‐gun regulation in Canada came about the late 1970s, when Bill C‐51 created a licensing regime, mandated background checks, and prohibited ownership of fully automatic weapons.…”

Section: Sor/98‐462 and Bill C‐21 – Ban On “Assault‐style” Firearmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Schwartz

2022

World Affairs

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Despite the popularity of the Evidence-Based Policy Making paradigm, scholarly evidence often fails to have an impact in emotional or value-laden policy debates. Consequently, changes to Canada’s gun control laws in recent years have often failed to incorporate scholarly research. This is problematic given that the forces of path dependence impose costs on policy makers who seek to reverse established policies, even if they are dysfunctional. This article lays the theoretical foundations for a Firearms Policy Evaluation Framework, which can be used by scholars, policy makers, advocates, and the public to conduct preliminary evaluations of proposed firearms policies before they become law. The utility of the framework is then demonstrated with an evaluation of the 2020 assault-style weapons ban in Canada, which includes a systematic scoping review of the literature on the impact of assault-weapons bans.

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Section: Evidence-based Policy Making (Ebpm) and Policy Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sor/98-462 and Bill C-21 – Ban On “Assault-style” Firearmsmentioning

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2022

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I know better: Self-esteem, egocentrism, and policy learning in the liberalization of Belgian network industries

Moyson

2024

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Policy learning is a key mechanism of policy change through which policy actors revise their beliefs and preferences over time as a result of social interactions and new information. The individual psychology of policy actors is crucial to understanding how institutional settings and social practices influence policy learning. This article looks at the effects of self-esteem—i.e., how policy actors value themselves—and egocentrism—i.e., their tendency to confuse their subjective perceptions with objective reality and to disqualify the perceptions of others.Based on regression analyses of a 2012 survey of 255 Belgian policy actors who had been involved in the European liberalization process of the rail and electricity sectors, the findings suggest that policy actors who score higher on self-esteem or egocentrism feel that they “know better”: they align their policy preferences to new policy information less than policy actors who score lower. Only egocentrism directly leads to a negative adjustment of policy actors’ preferences towards liberalization policies over time. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed. They shed light on policy actors’ modes of reasoning and are thus an important step in the research agenda on “learning governance”.

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Understanding evidence and behavioral responses: Future directions in evidence‐based policy‐making

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