Cambridge Conversations: Decision-making, politics and expertise

Government decision-making is never out of the headlines. The past two years have thrown the relationship between politics and expertise into sharp and difficult relief. But how do government decisions get made? What are the formal, informal and sometimes enigmatic structures and processes that produce the results? And how do policymakers navigate morally charged and complex phenomena to make fast, effective and necessary decisions? Professor Dennis Grube, Acting Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy host this event, and brought together two expert speakers in conversation: Professor John Aston, Harding Professor of Statistics in Public Life and former Home Office Chief Scientific Advisor, and Professor Anna Alexandrova, Professor in Philosophy of Science.