Global Anticorruption Blog - Anticorruption Policymaking: The Critical Role of Information

"Developing the knowledge required for good policymaking can be expensive, time-consuming, and intellectually challenging.  At the same time, policymakers are often under pressure to act; the problem is urgent; the public demands a solution, and they want to address the nation’s ills, or at least appear to address them, quickly.  So policy is made on the basis of incomplete data, hunches, intuition, and plain guesswork. The unfortunate result...is almost always a policy failure."

Read more: http://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2015/02/25/anticorruption-policymaking-the-critical-role-of-information/