Fundamental political appraisal

While a knowledge of potential threats (based on practical lessons learned in the present and past and on scientific insights into relevant causal relationships) is useful and necessary, the trick is to help politicians carry out an informed appraisal that can (or perhaps must) also allow for the pubhc s perceptions (Asveld and Roeser 2009). 

What guidelines for general policymaking can we offer government based on scientifically informed reflection We have arrived at five guidelines or reference points  

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