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Abeba Taddese
Apr 13, 20185 min read
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...
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Katrin Prager
Nov 8, 20164 min read
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,...
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Clara Richards
Aug 16, 20164 min read
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...
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Clara Richards
Jul 28, 20163 min read
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...
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Clara Richards
May 18, 20163 min read
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...
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Clara Richards
Feb 3, 20162 min read
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...
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Clara Richards
Jul 28, 20155 min read
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...
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Clara Richards
May 5, 20154 min read
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 &...
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Clara Richards
Aug 12, 20142 min read
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,...
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Clara Richards
Jul 1, 20141 min read
Are “South-South” interactions geographically restricted?
Southern researchers experience particular barriers to having their knowledge influence global debates on development. Publishing in...
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Clara Richards
May 26, 20143 min read
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...
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Clara Richards
Feb 27, 20144 min read
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...
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Clara Richards
Jan 30, 20141 min read
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...
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Clara Richards
Jan 28, 20143 min read
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...
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Clara Richards
Nov 25, 20133 min read
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...
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Clara Richards
Nov 25, 20134 min read
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...
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Clara Richards
Oct 30, 20133 min read
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...
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Clara Richards
Oct 21, 20133 min read
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...
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Clara Richards
Oct 10, 20134 min read
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...
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Clara Richards
Sep 27, 20133 min read
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...
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