Academic research and public policy: rhetorical lessons from the Sophonow Inquiry

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tosh Tachino
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Academic Research

scholarly journals Introduction to the analysis of public policies

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
Prof. univ. dr. habil. Mihaela Rus ◽  
Lect. univ. dr. Mihaela Sandu ◽  
Tanase Tasente
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
National Level ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Action Program ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Applied Approach

We can talk about public policies when a public authority - central or local - intends, with the help of a coordinated action program, to modify the economic, social, cultural environment of social actors. At national level, public policies can appear from any of the major state institutions (Parliament, President, Government, central or local authorities). The study of public policies is different from the traditional academic research, having an applied approach, oriented towards: (1) designing and developing solutions for the problems of society, (2) Interdisciplinarity, (3) Orientation towards problem solving: it does not have a purely academic character, but it is oriented towards the problems of the real world, looking for solutions for them, (4) Normativity. The general stages of this process are as follows: (1) defining the problem, (2) making the decision, (3) implementation of public policy, (4) monitoring and evaluation of public policy.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Financial Literacy and Financial Needs of Unbanked and Under Banked Population

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
D C Stalin
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Experimental Models ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Significant Implication ◽  
Research Gaps ◽  
Human Capital Development ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Capital Development

This paper assumes an estimation of economical research of rapidly improving body on financial literacy. We begin with a synopsis of academic research, which emit financial learning as a structure interest in human capital. Development of financial learning has significant implication for benefit; also policies planned to increase levels of financial information in the well-built inhabitants. After that, we depict on topical surveys to ascertain how many numbers of people knows and categorize the least financial aptitude population subgroups. Though the narrative is still undeveloped, conclusions may perhaps strain on the subject of the effects and consequences of financial illiteracy, to work for answering these research gaps. A concluding part suggests a view on what remains to be educated, if researchers are to be improved to inform academic and experimental models with public policy.

scholarly journals ‘Politics done like science’: Critical perspectives on psychological governance and the experimental state

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhys Jones ◽  
Mark Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Experimental Knowledge ◽  
Academic Recognition ◽  
Modes Of Governance ◽  
Critical Perspectives

There has been a growing academic recognition of the increasing significance of psychologically – and behaviourally – informed modes of governance in recent years in a variety of different states. We contend that this academic research has neglected one important theme, namely the growing use of experiments as a way of developing and testing novel policies. Drawing on extensive qualitative and documentary research, this paper develops critical perspectives on the impacts of the psychological sciences on public policy, and considers more broadly the changing experimental form of modern states. The tendency for emerging forms of experimental governance to be predicated on very narrow, socially disempowering, visions of experimental knowledge production is critiqued. We delineate how psychological governance and emerging forms of experimental subjectivity have the potential to enable more empowering and progressive state forms and subjectivities to emerge through more open and collective forms of experimentation.

Comment: It’s Not Academic

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (14) ◽  
pp. 1995-2000
Author(s):  
Oliver J. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Political Advocacy ◽  
White Space

The author comments on how academic research on white space could be utilized in policy making. Through this discussion, the author explores the intersection between academic and political advocacy. Sociologists should consider, but not be limited by, the work of practitioners and advocates in determining how their research can be useful in influencing public policy.

Political Scientists and Public Policy Affecting Computer-Based Research

1974 ◽  
Vol 7 (04) ◽  
pp. 377-381
Author(s):  
Nicholas Henry
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Information Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Status ◽  
Computer Based

A recurring irony among political scientists is that they rarely display an interest in public policies which directly affect them. An example is the current national effort to formulate public policies for new information technologies, notably those technologies which are vital to academic research in the sciences and social sciences, such as computer-based information storage' and retrieval systems, photocopiers, and microduplication techniques. For almost two decades, lobbyists, public bureaucrats, and congressmen have been engaged in a formal and continuing attempt to revise radically the present principal expression of public policy for new information technologies, the Copyright Act of 1909.It is my purpose in this essay to explain cursorily how the copyright concept affects the uses and users of the information technology that would seem to have the greatest utility for research in political science — the computer — and review the status of efforts to change the copyright principle in such a way as to accommodate more comprehensively the new information technologies. As we shall see, how copyright law is revised may alter traditional patterns of knowledge use and its generation in political science.

scholarly journals SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND EMPLOYMENT CHALLENGES OF PERSONS WITH MENTAL DISABILITIES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evija Anca ◽  
Biruta Sloka
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Mental Disabilities ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Development Scenarios

In developed countries there is a valuable experience how to include people with disabilities into society: involve in several activities and let them know as people valuable for the society. More and more academic research is devoted to those aspects as well as public policy is developed to create and support social entrepreneurship. Aim of the paper is to analyse findings and good practice of employment of people with mental disabilities in several countries and analyse the situation and possible developments on employment of people with mental disabilities in Latvia. Tasks of research: 1) analyse results of academic findings on good practice and challenges in employment of people with mental disabilities wold-wide; 2) analyse the developments and trends on employment of people with mental disabilities in Latvia; 3) propose possible development scenarios on employment of people with mental disabilities in Latvia. Research methods used in research: scientific publications analysis; analysis of legislative documents on employment of people with mental disabilities, analysis of statistical data on employment of people with mental disabilities. Research results have shown that in recent years many important steps in employment of people with mental disabilities in Latvia has been reached but there are some difficulties in realise of sustainability in this aspect.

Academics and public policy

2018 ◽  
pp. 395-420
Author(s):  
Daniel Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Policy Process ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Knowledge Brokers ◽  
Pass Through

Academic researchers are important contributors to the public policy process in Canada and other countries. However, they generally do not contribute directly. First their work tends to pass through the hands others, sometimes called knowledge brokers, before it reaches those who actually make public policy. Secondly, although policy advisors and ultimate decision-makers tend to be aware of major schools of thought, they are less likely to be influenced by any specific single journal article or book. This chapter explores the process by which academic research finds its way into public-policy process and illustrates steps academic researchers can take to increase the chances their work will be taken account of in policy-making. The chapter ends with a word of caution about what can go wrong if academic researchers over-reach and try to influence the policy process without taking account of context.

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