Models of Man and Behavior in Scientific Policy Advice. Opportunities and Limits of Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Every scientific policy advice is based on a model of human behaviour. Divergent policy recommendations often rest on different behavioural models. This edited volume therefore addresses the role of normatively laden ‘images of man’ and how their normative content is also effective in behavioural models which are designed for ‘positive’ analysis and applied to scientific policy advice. The first part introduces the approach of interdisciplinary institutional analysis. The second part addresses the role of images of man and behavioural models in economics, political science and law. The contributions to the third part discuss the analytical content of different behavioural models as applied to agriculture and consumer protection policy, fiscal fraud and self-responsibility in corporate environmental conservation. Each contribution is commented by a scholar from a different discipline in order to clarify capabilities, commonalities and differences of the various approaches. The contributions to the fourth part discuss perspectives for an interdisciplinary behavioural model as viewed by different disciplinary orientations, and designate demand for future research.
Models of Man and Behavior in Scientific Policy Advice, Opportunities and Limits of Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Nomos: Baden-Baden, (2007), ISBN 978-3-8329-2563-5
Editors: Martin Führ, Kilian Bizer and Peter H. Feindt
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In German