The policy agora: how power inequalities affect the interaction between researchers and policy makers
The policy agora: how power inequalities affect the interaction between researchers and policy makers
This paper examines notions of power in relation to evidence-informed policy making and explores four key areas. First, I outline contemporary conceptualisations of how power operates in society; second, I spotlight the implications of power inequalities for how evidence is used by policy makers (and present the policy 'agora'; a discursively controlled paradigm of ideology and epistemology which serves to distinguish between the types of evidence that policy makers will and won't engage with); third, I then define what I consider as evidence 'misuse'; before finishing with an analysis of why evidence misuse materialises and how its enactment might be minimised.
Evidence-informed policy, Knowledge mobilisation, Policy agora, Power
421-438
Brown, Chris
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1 August 2014
Brown, Chris
42bbe788-54bf-4081-8c18-ead8b554f0fd
Brown, Chris
(2014)
The policy agora: how power inequalities affect the interaction between researchers and policy makers.
Evidence and Policy, 10 (3), .
(doi:10.1332/174426514X672353).
Abstract
This paper examines notions of power in relation to evidence-informed policy making and explores four key areas. First, I outline contemporary conceptualisations of how power operates in society; second, I spotlight the implications of power inequalities for how evidence is used by policy makers (and present the policy 'agora'; a discursively controlled paradigm of ideology and epistemology which serves to distinguish between the types of evidence that policy makers will and won't engage with); third, I then define what I consider as evidence 'misuse'; before finishing with an analysis of why evidence misuse materialises and how its enactment might be minimised.
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Published date: 1 August 2014
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Evidence-informed policy, Knowledge mobilisation, Policy agora, Power
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