From 2000 to 2004, Tsai ran the Mainland Affairs Council, Taiwan's government office that handles policymaking toward mainland China.
U.S. policymaking toward Russia, however, has been driven by a perception that Russian actions, as guided by Putin, are empire-focused and therefore cannot be dealt with through strategies other than containment.
Luti was an early advocate of military action against Iraq, and, as the Administration moved toward war and policymaking power shifted toward the civilians in the Pentagon, he took on increasingly important responsibilities.
Our findings show that there are no negative attitudes by policymakers toward research evidence, its use, and benefits in the policymaking process.
President Trump may have an exceedingly "flexible" attitude toward policymaking generally, but in one area count on him to be stalwart and immobile: his urge to run the White House like a business, a family business.
And whereas Mr. Klein suggested in a 1994 Newsweek essay, "The Politics of Promiscuity," that Mr. Clinton's tendency toward sloppy policymaking (particularly overseas) might have been a reflection of his sloppy personal habits, he now repudiates that argument, writing that the president "gradually became far more disciplined in his statements and public actions".
While controversial in light of a trend toward 'evidence-based' policymaking (Pugh 2002; Phillips et al. 2004), this precautionary consumer attitude may be desirable even if quantifiable harms of a particular practice are limited.
It's a clear sign of how far the Democratic Party has moved — and how it's moved toward smart, powerful economic policymaking.
In this context, efforts to keep relevant public informed are quite important, as are those toward the accomplishment of public policymaking.
Policymakers and other stakeholders in HEPA policymaking should therefore clearly face, solve, and manage the use of research evidence in policymaking and realise true evidence-informed policymaking.
Any progress toward data-driven and evidence-informed policymaking that had been underway in the Obama administration is likely to be systematically rolled back – or at least ignored – under President Trump.
