This blog is about the uses of abuses of research on public policy and administration.<\/p>\n
It is about the Rules of Reason – the rules that guide the production of social science and that structure the design of academic research.<\/p>\n
But it is also about the Reasons of Rules – the reasonableness of social rules and the (ir)rationality of public institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This blog is about the uses of abuses of research on public policy and administration. It is about the Rules of Reason – the rules that guide the production of social science and that structure the design of academic research. But it is also about the Reasons of Rules – the reasonableness of social rules and the (ir)rationality of public institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[497,529,561],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g3hj-b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":282,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=282","url_meta":{"origin":11,"position":0},"title":"Writing with the rear-view mirror","date":"February 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Social science research is supposed to work like this: 1) You want to explain a certain case or a class of phenomena; 2) You develop a theory and derive a set of hypotheses; 3) You test the hypotheses with data; 4) You conclude about the plausibility of\u00a0the theory; 5) You\u00a0write\u00a0a\u00a0paper\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Academic publishing"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":93,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=93","url_meta":{"origin":11,"position":1},"title":"More than you ever wanted to know about compliance with EU law in Europe","date":"October 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I \u00a0spent the last week finalizing a \u00a0review of the literature \u00a0on compliance with EU \u00a0law at the national level. 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