Ethics for Policymaking: A Methodological Analysis

In this book the author presents a sustained argument in favour of a particular perspective on the relationship between normative judgements or arguments and policymaking, based upon a radically different approach to providing a justification for actions, whether individual or collective. Meehan’s overall objective is to establish the knowledge requirement, empirical and normative for defensible/corrigible policymaking and thereby to produce an analytic apparatus that can be used to improve intellectual performance in the conduct of real world affairs.