Policy-making and truthiness: Can existing policy models cope with politicized evidence and willful ignorance in a “post-fact” world?
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False news; Alternative facts; Truthiness; Policy theory; Advocacy coalition framework; Multiple streams framework; Policy analysis; Policy science;All these keywords.
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