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Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

1 A Subtle Balance: Editor’s Introduction

2 Public Policy Analysis in Canada: A Forty-Year Overview

3 Affairs of the Smart: Will Researchers and Decision-Makers “Hook Up”?

4 Expertise and Evidence in Public Policy: In Defence of (a Little) Technocracy

5 Program Evaluation and Aboriginal Affairs: A History and a Thought Experiment

6 The Canada Pension Plan and Policy Reform: Shifting Spaces for Democratic Deliberation

7 Tales of Quantitative Analysis and Public Policy

8 Environmental Issues: Fifty Years of Change and Current Challenges

9 Climate Engineering: New Challenges for Scientific Assessment and Global Governance

10 Seeing Like a Sound? Resource Management and Property Rights in Clayoquot Sound

11 Profits v. Purpose: Hybrid Companies and the Charitable Dollar

12 The Future of Computer-Supported Policy Analysis: Collaboration, Openness, Collective Intelligence, and Competition

13 It’s Not My Problem: Personal Moral Responsibility for Policy Advice

14 What is an Honest Policy Analyst to Do?

15 Speaking Elusive Truth to Shifting Power: Reflections on Evolving Styles, Changing Views, and New Problems

16 A Subtle Balance: Reflection and Synthesis

References

Contributors

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