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Policy capacity and evidence-based policy in the public service
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In this paper, the authors argue that individual and organizational deficits can leave the public service structurally unprepared for an engagement with diverse forms of evidence, including academic research in particular, and argue that the evidence-based policy movement has so far shown little progress in transforming the way that public policy is formulated and implemented.Abstract:
Governments in many jurisdictions have called for an increase in ‘evidence-based’ policy-making. However, the international evidence-based policy movement has so far shown little progress in transforming the way that public policy is formulated and implemented. Much research on evidence-based policy has focused on political interference and contextual frames of reference as barriers to the uptake of research evidence. With the support of data from a survey of over 2,000 Australian public servants, we argue that individual and organizational deficits can leave the public service structurally unprepared for an engagement with diverse forms of evidence, including academic research in particular.read more
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Policy-makers perspectives on credibility, relevance and legitimacy (CRELE)
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An introduction to achieving policy impact for early career researchers
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on the literature and their own experiences working in the environmental sciences to provide an accessible resource for early career researchers seeking to achieve policy impact in their chosen field.
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What can we learn from interventions that aim to increase policy-makers' capacity to use research? A realist scoping review.
TL;DR: The SCMO analysis suggested that tailored interactive workshops supported by goal-focused mentoring, and genuine collaboration, seem particularly promising, as well as some enduring contextual characteristics that all interventions should consider.
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Evidence-based policymaking and the wicked problem of SDG 5 Gender Equality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that where policy problems are "wicked" (systemic, ambiguous, complex, and conflictual), politics trumps evidence and solutions are never first best or permanent.
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The many meanings of research utilization.
TL;DR: A review of the literature reveals that a diverse array of meanings are attached to the term "using research" and that much of the ambiguity in the discussion of "research utilization" derives from conceptual confusion as discussed by the authors.
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Using Evidence: How research can inform public services
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a timely and novel contribution to understanding and enhancing evidence use, which builds on and complements the popular and best-selling What Works?: Evidence-Based Policy and Practice in Public Services by drawing together current knowledge from the education, health care, social care, and criminal justice fields.
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Why “what works” won’t work: evidence‐based practice and the democratic deficit in educational research
TL;DR: In this paper, evidence-based practice and the democratic deficit of educational research are discussed. But what works and what works won't work, and why "what works" won’t work.
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Evidence-Based Education Policies: Transforming Educational Practice and Research
TL;DR: The authors discusses the promise and pitfalls of randomized and rigorously matched experiments as a basis for policy and practice in education and concludes that a focus on rigorous experiments evaluating replicable programs and practices is essential to build confidence in educational research among policymakers and educators.