Facts, interests, and values: Identifying points of convergence and divergence for food systems
Better policies offer significant potential to meet the challenges facing food systems, but policy reform has often proved difficult. This chapter argues that the difficulty lies in disagreements over facts, interests, and values—alone or in combination.¹ For Sunstein (2018), politically contentious...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| description | Better policies offer significant potential to meet the challenges facing food systems, but policy reform has often proved difficult. This chapter argues that the difficulty lies in disagreements over facts, interests, and values—alone or in combination.¹ For Sunstein (2018), politically contentious issues “are fundamentally about facts rather than values,” and “[i]f we can agree on the facts, we should be able to agree on what to do—or at least our disagreements should be narrowed greatly.” By contrast, a considerable literature on political economy has long emphasized the importance of tensions between the public interest and special interests (Rausser et al. 2011), while a third perspective emphasizes the importance of (differences over) values (Thacher and Rein 2004; Inglehart and Welzel 2005; Stewart 2006; Enke 2020). In reality, all three are likely to play a role, although their relative importance will vary by issue. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1400752025-11-06T03:52:00Z Facts, interests, and values: Identifying points of convergence and divergence for food systems Deconinck, Koen policies risk food systems Better policies offer significant potential to meet the challenges facing food systems, but policy reform has often proved difficult. This chapter argues that the difficulty lies in disagreements over facts, interests, and values—alone or in combination.¹ For Sunstein (2018), politically contentious issues “are fundamentally about facts rather than values,” and “[i]f we can agree on the facts, we should be able to agree on what to do—or at least our disagreements should be narrowed greatly.” By contrast, a considerable literature on political economy has long emphasized the importance of tensions between the public interest and special interests (Rausser et al. 2011), while a third perspective emphasizes the importance of (differences over) values (Thacher and Rein 2004; Inglehart and Welzel 2005; Stewart 2006; Enke 2020). In reality, all three are likely to play a role, although their relative importance will vary by issue. 2023-10-16 2024-03-14T12:08:53Z 2024-03-14T12:08:53Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140075 en https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198882121.001.0001 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Oxford University Press Deconinck, Koen. 2023. Facts, interests, and values: Identifying points of convergence and divergence for food systems. In The Political Economy of Food System Transformation: Pathways to Progress in a Polarized World, eds. Danielle Resnick and Johan Swinnen. Chapter 2, Pp. 32-53. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198882121.003.0002. |
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| title | Facts, interests, and values: Identifying points of convergence and divergence for food systems |
| title_full | Facts, interests, and values: Identifying points of convergence and divergence for food systems |
| title_fullStr | Facts, interests, and values: Identifying points of convergence and divergence for food systems |
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| title_short | Facts, interests, and values: Identifying points of convergence and divergence for food systems |
| title_sort | facts interests and values identifying points of convergence and divergence for food systems |
| topic | policies risk food systems |
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