For this discussion, we were ask to select one of the five alternative models to evidence based decision making that we thought represented a prudent approach to implementing policy and procedural decisions.
After reading the article "The Limits to Evidence-Based Policy: Evidence, Emotion and Criminal Justice," I chose the enlightenment model out of the five-fold typologies.
"The enlightenment model which has research affecting the way in which issues are framed. Rather than research serving policy agendas in direct fashion, the benefits are indirect.
Research and evidence subsequently derived do not address the decision problem itself, but the context within which that decision will be taken. They provide a frame for thinking about it and seek to illuminate the landscape for the decision-makers" (Freiberg & Carson, 2010, p.159).
Does the enlightenment model attempt to predict unintended consequences of a policy?