Briefly, government and NGO reports assessing problems and solutions have a lot of nonsense that is really just mutual back-patting and other social politicking—and it distorts the recommendations of those types of reports.
Yet people training future public policy experts spend very little time talking about the ethics of those phenomena, or effective ways of dealing with the pressures that cause these effects. In short, no one talks about when and why to push back against insincere mutual admiration, and when to just go with the flow.
Bullshit as a problem in public ethics.
Briefly, government and NGO reports assessing problems and solutions have a lot of nonsense that is really just mutual back-patting and other social politicking—and it distorts the recommendations of those types of reports.
Yet people training future public policy experts spend very little time talking about the ethics of those phenomena, or effective ways of dealing with the pressures that cause these effects. In short, no one talks about when and why to push back against insincere mutual admiration, and when to just go with the flow.