The Systems Fallacy: A Genealogy and Critique of Public Policy and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Harcourt, Bernard E.

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“…Nevertheless, their lack or limited inclusion into top-down climate policy mixes by policymakers often results in excluding these policies from analysis. Policies impact mitigation regardless of how they are assembled by policymakers, yet limited research undertakes this epistemology of climate change mitigation (Harcourt, 2018). This has created a gap both in the conceptual and empirical literature.…”

Section: Setting the Scene: Climate Policyscapesmentioning

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Interactions within climate policyscapes: a network analysis of the electricity generation space in the United Kingdom, 1956–2022

Zambianchi,

Biedenkopf

2024

Front. Clim.

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The systems of policies impacting climate change mitigation are complex. Yet, to date, we have limited conceptual and empirical knowledge on the dynamics within these. We address this gap by employing a systems lens to untangle the interactions between the policies affecting climate change mitigation in the electricity generation space. We conceptualise climate policyscapesfor electricity generation as systems populated with policies whose means impact decarbonisation in the electricity generation space. The impacts under analysis include both support and obstruction of climate change mitigation. We analyse the evolution of the UK climate policyscape from 1956 to 2022. Methodologically, we combine qualitative content analysis and network analysis. We populate the policyscapes with pieces of legislation in the electricity generation space and employ qualitative content analysis to identify the policy means affecting climate change mitigation. Our network analysis of the 2022 climate policyscape reveals that policies hindering climate mitigation remain largely present, which renders the climate policyscape incoherent. We show that policies supporting mitigation are more likely to behave as a group than policies hindering climate mitigation. Climate policies tend to be adopted as packages, whilst fossil policies remain a steady process throughout the history of the UK climate policyscape.

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Section: Setting the Scene: Climate Policyscapesmentioning

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Interactions within climate policyscapes: a network analysis of the electricity generation space in the United Kingdom, 1956–2022

Zambianchi,

Biedenkopf

2024

Front. Clim.

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“…The ideal of systematized, quantified government decision-making has roots in operations research, with its ambition to develop neutral, scientific, and objective techniques for analyzing situations and determining optimal courses of action (Harcourt 2018). A key early actor was the RAND Corporation, a think tank founded in 1948 to provide research to the US Air Force.…”

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Algorithms and Decision-Making in the Public Sector

Levy

Chasalow

Riley

2021

Annu. Rev. Law. Soc. Sci.

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This article surveys the use of algorithmic systems to support decision-making in the public sector. Governments adopt, procure, and use algorithmic systems to support their functions within several contexts—including criminal justice, education, and benefits provision—with important consequences for accountability, privacy, social inequity, and public participation in decision-making. We explore the social implications of municipal algorithmic systems across a variety of stages, including problem formulation, technology acquisition, deployment, and evaluation. We highlight several open questions that require further empirical research. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Volume 17 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Exploring the superiority of human expertise over algorithmic expertise in the cognitive and metacognitive processes of decision-making among decision-makers.

Spatola

2023

Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans

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The Systems Fallacy: A Genealogy and Critique of Public Policy and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Cited by 5 publications

References 25 publications

Interactions within climate policyscapes: a network analysis of the electricity generation space in the United Kingdom, 1956–2022

Interactions within climate policyscapes: a network analysis of the electricity generation space in the United Kingdom, 1956–2022

Algorithms and Decision-Making in the Public Sector

Exploring the superiority of human expertise over algorithmic expertise in the cognitive and metacognitive processes of decision-making among decision-makers.

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