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Enlightenment, politicisation or mere window dressing? Europeanisation and the use of evidence for policy making in Bulgaria
Evidence-based policy making (EBPM) has been a key pillar of the better regulation agenda of the European Union. However, the extent to which it has...
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Foreign Policy Decision Making
The chapter enriches the theoretical literature on foreign policy decision making and contributes to the theoretical debates about the strengths and...
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Evidence-Based Policy and Feminist Knowledge
This chapter examines the entanglements of gender equality policy and economic policy and struggles around gender equality–economy relations from the...
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Explaining differences in research utilization in evidence-based government ministries
Studies of evidence-based policy have found that research often fails to influence policy-making and identify a number of barriers to research...
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Policy Making
This chapter deals with policy making. It explains the OECD Recommendations on putting in place a ‘Meta Policy’ to regulate the process of policy...
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The Significance of Leadership in the Evolution of Policy Styles: Reconciling Policy-Making in the Short and Long Term
Can relatively short-term political leadership affect long-term national policy styles, and if so, how? We examine these questions in order to...
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Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking
Several scholars have observed persistent gaps between policy responses to complex, ambiguous and politicized problems (such as migration, climate...
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A climate of optimism? EU policy-making, political science and the democratization of Central and Eastern Europe (2000–2015)
Democratic erosion in the EU’s Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states has confounded EU policy-makers. In this paper, we investigate the...
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Policy-Making as Social Problem-Solving
A pluralist, democratic, and political politics acknowledges that while people may have some interests in common, we also have different, competing,...
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Policy-Making and Budget Changes
Is public budgeting an erratic or a meticulous process? The issue of the management of the public budget is old, complicated, and increasingly...
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Organized interests in post-communist policy-making: a new dataset for comparative research
This article familiarizes readers with the international research project ‘The Missing Link: Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist...
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Research and Knowledge in Public Policy Making
The raw material for sound and evidence-based public policy is knowledge. Relevant knowledge comes from research. Thus, research and knowledge are...
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From Research to Policy Action: Communicating Research for Public Policy Making
This chapter underscores the importance of engaging policy makers and other stakeholders in the research process. Recognizing that there are two...
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Travelling Far and Wide? Applying the Multiple Streams Framework to Policy-Making in Autocracies
The Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) builds on the concepts of timing and ambiguity and their effects on the policy process. Since its introduction...
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The Making of Defence Policy in Canada
Much has been written on various aspects of Canadian defence: on military history, for example, or on budgets, procurement, and participation in wars...
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Policy Capacity of the Legislature and Evidence-Informed Policy Making in Ghana: A Comparative Analysis
Based on a broader governance context analysis, this chapter explores legislative policymaking in Ghana as an illustrative case for other African...
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Public Opinion and the Policy Making Process in Ghana’s Fourth Republic
Public opinion plays a critical role in policy making both ideationally and normatively. The place of public opinion in sha** policymaking is...
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The Role of Scientific Expertise in COVID-19 Policy-making: Evidence from Four European Countries
Immense uncertainty and the need for drastic interventions cause politicians to rely heavily on scientific advice for underpinning or legitimating...
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Introduction: Research Capacity for Evidence-Informed Policy Making in Africa
This chapter describes the context and justification for the book. It discusses the growing recognition and action in advancing evidence-informed...
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Rethinking disproportionate policy making by introducing proportionate politics
This article seeks to critique and extend recent work in the policy sciences, by Maor in particular, on disproportionate policy making—including...
