Berlin
Do. 04.09.2014, 18:00
Vortrag
Is Impact Assessment Democratic?
Tensions in Public Policymaking in the EU and the US
Hertie School of Governance
Friedrichstraße 180
10117 Berlin
Berlin Brandenburg
Beschreibung:
Opening Lecture of the Academic Year 2014/15 by Susan Rose-Ackerman, Yale University
The European Commission has been pushing Member States to engage in Impact Assessment (IA) when they make policy. The Commission itself carries out such assessments and has an Impact Assessment Board that reviews them. But just what is IA, and is it compatible with democratic values? Sometimes it is defended as a version of cost/benefit analysis, that is, a technique derived from Utilitarianism and widely studied in schools of public policy. Other times it is described as merely an exhortation to think functionally and systematically about policy. The lecture will discuss alternative views of IA and the tensions between IA and accountable, representative democracy.
| Kategorie | Politik |
| Veranstalter | Hertie School of Governance |
| Anmeldung bis | 1.9.2014 |
| Telefonnummer des Veranstalters | 030 259 219 118 |
| E-Mail für Anmeldungen | events(at)hertie-school.org |
| Ansprechpartner | Kathrin Ackermann |
| Teilnehmerbeitrag | Eintritt frei. |
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