Add to ORKGABSTRACT The preceding decade has witnessed the production of a substantial volume of scholarship dedicated to exploring the concept of evidence-based policy – the idea that ‘at the heart ’ of properly developed public policy is ‘the best available evidence’. Concomitantly, ‘evidence ’ has secured a pride of place (at least, rhetorically) among policy-makers, who will often refer to the conclusions of ‘the best available evidence ’ when seeking to justify particular decisions. However, a number of additional considerations have been identified as desirably or otherwise influencing policy-makers ’ decisions, including fiscal and time constraints, personal experience, societal values, and short-term/long-term political strategy, to name a few...
This article discusses recent developments in thinking about what constitutes good policy making, an...
Calls for evidence-based policy often fail to recognise the fundamentally political nature of policy...
This paper proposes a way of thinking about the role of evidence in policy derived from a typology o...
There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but ...
There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but ...
In recent years, there has been a marked increase in interest in the use of evidence for public poli...
Evidence-based approaches to policy making are growing in popularity. A generally embraced view is t...
Evidence-based approaches to policy-making are growing in popularity. A generally embraced view is t...
Although research on direct-democratic campaigns in Switzerland has intensified in the last decade, ...
This paper engages with the concept of evidence informed policy-making. In particular it examines ho...
The idea that policy should be based on best research evidence might appear to be self-evident. But ...
The core of the paper argues that public policy is directly related to the character of democracy an...
Evidence-based policy making has been criticised as a revival of the 'rationality project' in which ...
In an era of fierce debate over the relevance of facts and expertise in Washington, it is noteworthy...
The democratic deficit of evidence-based policymaking and the little attention the approach pays to ...
This article discusses recent developments in thinking about what constitutes good policy making, an...
Calls for evidence-based policy often fail to recognise the fundamentally political nature of policy...
This paper proposes a way of thinking about the role of evidence in policy derived from a typology o...
There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but ...
There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but ...
In recent years, there has been a marked increase in interest in the use of evidence for public poli...
Evidence-based approaches to policy making are growing in popularity. A generally embraced view is t...
Evidence-based approaches to policy-making are growing in popularity. A generally embraced view is t...
Although research on direct-democratic campaigns in Switzerland has intensified in the last decade, ...
This paper engages with the concept of evidence informed policy-making. In particular it examines ho...
The idea that policy should be based on best research evidence might appear to be self-evident. But ...
The core of the paper argues that public policy is directly related to the character of democracy an...
Evidence-based policy making has been criticised as a revival of the 'rationality project' in which ...
In an era of fierce debate over the relevance of facts and expertise in Washington, it is noteworthy...
The democratic deficit of evidence-based policymaking and the little attention the approach pays to ...
This article discusses recent developments in thinking about what constitutes good policy making, an...
Calls for evidence-based policy often fail to recognise the fundamentally political nature of policy...
This paper proposes a way of thinking about the role of evidence in policy derived from a typology o...