The scientific method in public political activity (original) (raw)

Public policy is related to making decisions that affect a community or nation in one way or another, depending on their impact or scope. In this sense, the legislation that is developed to create reforms, laws or norms among other guidelines on which a society is founded, cannot be taken lightly, in which a planning, study, analysis and agreement, among other factors, that guarantee absolute reliability and transparency per se. When this does not happen, society's response is immediate, with voices of disagreement appearing, which in many cases leads to serious public order problems, disagreements, attacks against the institutions and the people who represent them. The problem observed in contemporary global politics is improvisation on the part of some politicians in making statements or making proposals without any support whatsoever to support them, generating uncertainty and unease in society. Today's world is more politically unstable than at any other time in history, and as Hawking (2018, p. 113) points out, "a large number of people feel economically and socially abandoned. As a result, they turn to populist, or at least popular, politicians with limited government experience and the ability to make sensible decisions in a crisis. " This type of scenario suggests that, although politics is a science, within the scope of public governance its praxis has been minimized, perceiving statements of high social impact under legislative proposals that are taken and interpreted as crude ideas and, in some cases, implausible, which are intended to be polished along the way whose scientific support or support is superfluous or non-existent. Politics, when considered as the base on which the principles of a Nation-State are based, are unconditionally linked to international geopolitics. These aspects become relevant when making decisions that demand from society its commitment to assume responsibility for multiple local and global problems, for example, public health, the progressive reduction of natural resources, climate change, overpopulation, wars, forced displacement, famines, lack of water