scholarly journals Why do we need for timeliness of research in decision-making?

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
J de Jong ◽  
J Hansen ◽  
P Groenewegen
Keyword(s):  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Evidence Based Policy ◽  
Research And Policy ◽  
Support Evidence

Abstract Background Compared to the policy process, the research process is slow. As a result, research evidence is not always available when needed in the policy process. These differences in timelines between research and policy hinder the use of research evidence in the policy process. In order to support evidence-based policy making, timeliness of research is important. Methods Examples are provided, e.g. where research was on time to be included in the policy process and where research was too late to be included in it. These examples are described and analysed to provide for recommendations on how to better align both processes. Results It is shown that in order to create timeliness of research, policy makers and researchers should talk on a regular basis. This increases the chance that results from the research are included in policy making. Conclusions Timeliness of research is important for evidence-based policy making. In order to create timeliness of research, interaction between researchers and policy makers is important.

scholarly journals The Politicization of Evidence-based Policies

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-145
Author(s):  
Kristof Tamas
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy Dialogue ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Swedish Experience ◽  
Policy Cultures ◽  
Research And Policy

The Swedish experience of government committees offers interesting examples of the diversity of efforts to make research relevant for policy-making. The Swedish case is also an illustration of how the research–policy dialogue may suffer from the gap between different research and policy ‘cultures’. These need to be bridged through dialogue and exchange in order to avoid a demise in the relationships between researchers and policy-makers. The aim of this chapter is to draw on the Swedish example with government committees to discuss critically the potential opportunities, benefits, and pitfalls when attempting to bridge the gap between research and policy-making. The chapter will also cast some new light on the claim that the research–policy nexus in liberal democracies is characterized by ‘the simultaneous scientification of politics and the politicization of science’.

scholarly journals Aligning the times: Exploring the convergence of researchers, policy makers and research evidence in higher education policy making

2020 ◽  
pp. 003452372092067
Author(s):  
Karen Smith ◽  
Scott Fernie ◽  
Nick Pilcher
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Times ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Research And Policy

The complexity of contemporary higher education policy making and the multitude of evidences and actors in policy networks mean that relationships between higher education researchers, policy makers and research evidence are not straightforward. In this article, we use a theoretical lens of time, Adams’ Timescapes, to explore this relationship and better understand why the research and policy worlds are frequently described as divided. Drawing on in-depth interviews with higher education researchers, policy makers and research funders, we show how research and policy have different interpretations of time. We discuss the Timeframes, or lengths, of work and career, the Temporality, or complexity, of ‘evidence’, of networks and relationships, and the importance of elements such as Timing, or synchronisation, and Tempo, or pace. We conclude that policy makers and higher education researchers may be better able to make sense of the problematic nature of aligning their concerns, interests and actions through understanding different Timescapes.

scholarly journals Why policy needs history (and historians)

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 369-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Berridge
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Time History ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Direct Relevance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Evidence Based Policy ◽  
Fresh Starts ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractPolicy makers like the idea of new initiatives and fresh starts, unencumbered by, even actively overthrowing, what has been done in the past. At the same time, history can be pigeonholed as fusty and antiquarian, dealing with long past events of no relevance to the present. Academic historians are sometimes bound up in their own worlds. The debates central to academe may have little direct relevance to the immediate concerns of policy making. The paper argues that history, as the evidence-based discipline par excellence, is as relevant as other approaches to evidence-based policy making. Case studies can show us the nature of that relevance. How to achieve influence for history also needs discussion. The relationship is not straightforward and will vary according to time and place. History is an interpretative discipline, not just a collection of ‘facts’. The paper discusses how historians work and why it is important for policy makers to engage, not just with history, but with historians as well. Historians too need to think about the value of bringing their analysis into policy.

scholarly journals INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN THEIR EXISTENCE OF IN EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY MAKING BY GOVERNMENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1344-1348
Author(s):  
Revency Vania Rugebregt ◽  
M.J. Saptenno ◽  
J. Tjiptabudy
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Vulnerable Group ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Evidence Based Policy ◽  
Laws And Regulations

Indigenous Peoples are a problem that is relatively unknown to the wider community because they are located in remote areas, and only certain areas have Indigenous Peoples problems. They are a very vulnerable group in our society and in the country in general. This happens because they lack access to development and even their rights tend to be neglected. Apart from that, the alignment of the constitution with them in the laws and regulations is not in line with the practice in the field. This research uses the normative research method where the conceptual and statutory approaches are used, but also the legal materials that are obtained in the field will also be input in this research. It is hoped that this research can contribute ideas to policy makers so that it becomes a recommendation for making policies based on conditions in the field or evidence (evidence-based policies).

scholarly journals Conflictive management of small mammals considered as pests: A long way to evidence-based policy making

2012 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catarina Ferreira ◽  
Miguel Delibes-Mateos
Keyword(s):  
Small Mammal ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Mammal Species ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Evidence Based Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
Small Mammal Species ◽  
Conservation And Management ◽  
Management Issues

Abstract This paper discusses the controversial management decisions made by policy-makers worldwide regarding poisoning campaigns aimed to control small mammal populations, often considered harmful economic pests. Aside from considerations regarding the biological consequences of these campaigns, we argue that when society rejects all values of science and expertise then only badly supported and negligent decisions will be made about conservation and management issues. The extermination of small mammal species, some of which play crucial ecological roles in several regions of the world, is just an example of such discredit and misinformation. Without a strong commitment towards evidence-based policy-making, economic investments in research and development could be entirely compromised [Current Zoology 58 (2): 353–357, 2012].

scholarly journals Estudos em Políticas Públicas e a COVID-19: Indicativos de uma agenda de pesquisa

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Gonçalves Brasil
Keyword(s):  
Policy Process ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Focusing Events ◽  
Evidence Based Policy

A pandemia causada pela Covid-19, que se prolonga desde os primeiros meses de 2020 ao redor de todo o mundo, marcada por irreparáveis impactos sociais, econômicos, sanitários e humanitários, tem despertado a atenção de acadêmicos que se dedicam a entender e analisar as ideias, escolhas e prioridades dos tomadores de decisão num momento caracterizado pela extrema necessidade de atuação governamental. Seja no seu papel de fonte oficial de informações que orientem e informem a população, seja na atuação direta na elaboração de estratégias de redução do contágio, no estabelecimento de regras de funcionamento de equipamentos públicos e privados, ou na elaboração de políticas que minimizem os efeitos catastróficos da pandemia e garantam a sobrevivência de seu povo, o “estado em ação” vem sendo observado por diferentes lentes teóricas inseridas no interdisciplinar campo das políticas públicas. Este estudo tem o objetivo de apresentar, ainda que brevemente, dois referenciais teóricos e analíticos com grande potencial para apoiar estudos que buscam entender melhor a forma como o processo de políticas públicas pode sofrer importantes alterações em momentos de crise como essa. O primeiro referencial analisado é o dos “efeitos focalizadores” (focusing events), presentes na literatura de policy process e agenda-setting. Outra lente analítica relevante está relacionada com o aprendizado em políticas públicas e a formulação de políticas baseadas em evidência (policy learning and evidence-based policy making). As escolhas por essas três linhas teóricas não têm a intenção de limitar os estudos em políticas públicas, mas de lançar luz a novas abordagens com grande potencial explicativo para novas agendas de pesquisas.

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