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The Science-Policy Interface as a Communication Process : = Exploring How Policy Decision-Makers Perceive Science-Driven Policy and Make Evidence-Based Decisions on the Nuclear Fuel Cycle.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Science-Policy Interface as a Communication Process :/
Reminder of title:	Exploring How Policy Decision-Makers Perceive Science-Driven Policy and Make Evidence-Based Decisions on the Nuclear Fuel Cycle.
Author:	Li, Nan.
Description:	1 online resource (171 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 77-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International77-01A.
Subject:	Communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3707860click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781321827057

The Science-Policy Interface as a Communication Process : = Exploring How Policy Decision-Makers Perceive Science-Driven Policy and Make Evidence-Based Decisions on the Nuclear Fuel Cycle.
Li, Nan.

The Science-Policy Interface as a Communication Process :Exploring How Policy Decision-Makers Perceive Science-Driven Policy and Make Evidence-Based Decisions on the Nuclear Fuel Cycle. - 1 online resource (171 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 77-01, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references

The effectiveness of scientists as knowledge communicators in the context of science-policy interfaces has been under scholarly scrutiny in recent decades. Prior research has identified a series of structural and cultural factors that might inhibit the information exchange between scientific and policymaking communities. Nonetheless, the psychological foundations underlying some macro-level factors, such as institutional culture, have been rarely analyzed previously. Little is known about how policymakers and stakeholders cognitively process and use specific evidence to make decisions. Despite the fact that scientists have increasingly used innovative data visualizations to convey decision-aiding information, the effectiveness of such techniques remains largely underexplored. Using the nuclear fuel cycle as a case study, I investigate the psychological mechanisms through which decision-makers would form their perceptions about the role of science in driving policy. I argue that decision-makers are primarily concerned with different aspects about the nuclear fuel cycle, as they are situated within institutions with distinct functions and interests. When it comes to judging the role of scientific evidence in driving policy, decision-makers tend to rely on the issues with the most salient concerns to estimate the policy relevancy of scientific evidence and use these estimations as mental shortcuts to report opinions. The first part of this argument is demonstrated empirically in Study A, in which I qualitatively delineate the cognitive gaps between government policymakers and think tank experts as two representatives of key decision-makers with respect to the nuclear fuel cycle. Additionally, Study B empirically supports the second part of my argument with a mediation analysis of survey data collected from a sample of policy decision-makers, dealing with nuclear power-related issues at the federal and local levels. In Study C, I conduct an experiment to examine how non-specialist decision-makers cognitively process scientific evidence displayed in various graphical formats and use that to make decisions on the development of nuclear fuel cycles. The results show that (1) non-specialist users tend to rely on peripheral visual cues (e.g., numerical label, shape size, etc.) to complete assigned tasks and (2) the effectiveness of innovative displays (i.e., infographics) vary for individuals with different levels of graph literacy.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781321827057Subjects--Topical Terms:

524709
Communication.
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Data visualizationIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

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