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Advancing evidence-informed policymaking: What’s culture got to do with it?
[This blog post by Abeba Taddese, Executive Director of Results for All, a global initiative of Results for America, was originally...
Abeba Taddese
Apr 13, 20185 min read
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A co-creation challenge: Aligning research and policy processes
[Editor’s Note: This piece was written by Katrin Prager, senior social scientist at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland,...
Katrin Prager
Nov 8, 20164 min read
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Think-tanking in environments with low value assigned to research
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Simonida Kacarska, Research Coordinator at the European Policy Institute, Macedonia. It is the...
Clara Richards
Aug 16, 20164 min read
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Choosing to innovate on your research agenda
[Editor’s note: This post is the eighth of a series produced by Andrea Ordóñez and Leandro Echt from Politics & Ideas to share what we...
Clara Richards
Jul 28, 20163 min read
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Context: why focus on public institutions and on politics?
As we have already shared in some previous posts, P&I jointly with INASP are about to publish a study called “Going beyond context...
Clara Richards
May 18, 20163 min read
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Research knowledge is crucial to national and global development
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Julie Brittain, who has recently become the Executive Director of the International Network for...
Clara Richards
Feb 3, 20162 min read
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Evidence-based policies: building what is really possible
A change that is becoming a reality during the first years of the 21st Century is the mass use information and communication technology...
Clara Richards
Jul 28, 20155 min read
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Barriers to research use in the public health sector
By Ian Sane at flickr.com under CC license [Editor’s Note: This post was originally published by Rose N. Oronje, PhD, Senior Policy &...
Clara Richards
May 5, 20154 min read
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Researcher policymaker: A missing bridge?
It’s quite amazing the amount of time and effort that southern researchers invest to research their ideas and present them to the world,...
Clara Richards
Aug 12, 20142 min read
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Are “South-South” interactions geographically restricted?
Southern researchers experience particular barriers to having their knowledge influence global debates on development. Publishing in...
Clara Richards
Jul 1, 20141 min read
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Defining a research agenda. Balancing internal and external influences
[Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared at INASP’s newsletter 2012. It is also available in Spanish at VIPPAL.] The definition of a...
Clara Richards
May 26, 20143 min read
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Evidence Based Policy + Citizen Participation: can they be combined?
[Editor’s note: This post was written by René Cardoso Baltazar (@rcardosob), strategic advisor to the International Foundation for the...
Clara Richards
Feb 27, 20144 min read
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Writing a Case Study II: Policy influence in Local Education in the Philippines
[Editor’s note: This post introduces a new material produced by Anne Lan K. Candelaria for Politics & Ideas. It is an illustration of the...
Clara Richards
Jan 30, 20141 min read
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A researcher in search of a policy maker: reflections on the sustainability of a project aimed at li
The programme “Spaces for Engagement: using knowledge to improve public decisions” (SFE) is a six-year joint initiative by Global...
Clara Richards
Jan 28, 20143 min read
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What are partisan think tanks?
[Editor’s note: What is the role of partisan think tanks in political debates? In this series of blogs, Claudio Jones, researcher with...
Clara Richards
Nov 25, 20133 min read
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Building a new concept: Political Knowledge Regimes
[Editor’s note: This post presents Adolfo Garcé’s paper ‘Political-Knowledge Regimes‘. It follows a previous post that gives an overview...
Clara Richards
Nov 25, 20134 min read
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Three worthwhile questions on public philosophies
[Editor’s note: This reflection is based on our paper “Defining problems or providing solutions? The role of ideas in policy debates”. It...
Clara Richards
Oct 30, 20133 min read
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Defining problems or providing solutions? The role of ideas in policy debates
Today I am sharing a new working paper with you: “Defining problems or providing solutions? The role of ideas in policy debates.” Ideas...
Clara Richards
Oct 21, 20133 min read
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What is behind the idea of Evidence Based Policy?
In the previous post, I shared Jal Mehta’s framework that can help us take apart an idea into its different dimensions (I suggest you...
Clara Richards
Oct 10, 20134 min read
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Rethinking ideas – more than just policy solutions
One of the areas of interest of our research agenda are ideas. I agree, conceptualizing ideas, and exploring where they come from, how...
Clara Richards
Sep 27, 20133 min read
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