By Denise Krebs under CC license In June 2014 the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) commissioned Politics&Ideas to undertake a ‘light touch...

Some of the arguably most fundamental, longest-lasting changes in the world economy resulted from the policy influencing efforts of an...

[Editor’s note: This post was written by René Cardoso Baltazar (@rcardosob), strategic advisor to the International Foundation for the...

[Editor’s note: This reflection is based on our paper “Defining problems or providing solutions? The role of ideas in policy debates”. It...

Today I am sharing a new working paper with you: “Defining problems or providing solutions? The role of ideas in policy debates.” Ideas...

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...

One of the areas of interest of our research agenda are ideas. I agree, conceptualizing ideas, and exploring where they come from, how...

Researchers are not separate from politics. The separation between research and policy -and politics- is useful for researchers and their...

In the upcoming weeks we will start sharing some of the research currently being carried out as to develop our research agenda.  The...

In 2013, P&I published the paper Defining problems or providing solutions? The role of ideas in policy debates, by Andrea Ordoñez. A...

Theory of Change has become a buzzword across the development industry. It is a new tool in the toolbox that consultants use for...

Evidence based policy has, as the Topic Guide states in its introduction, become a sort of holy grail for policymakers (in the North and...

Our first product is a Topic Guide on Politics and Ideas. We have worked intensely to produce it but we know that we need your help to...

Finnish schools are among the best in the world, but did not know, and apparently did not want to know it. Ironically, Finns found out...

This Topic Guide covers a number of topic and issues identified during a process of discussion and debate among the team members and...

Creating a research agenda is always an exciting job. On the one hand, we are always seeking for overarching structures and frameworks...

In the academic world, little attention has been paid to how the priorities and agendas of global research organisations, along with...