#Ideas

Learning from and with others: an experience with the Think Tank Initiative

Clara Richards

Oct 30, 20146 min read

Learning from and with others: an experience with the Think Tank Initiative

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

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Do like Adam Smith: Ride the train with your policymaker (as often as possible)

Clara Richards

Apr 15, 20143 min read

Do like Adam Smith: Ride the train with your policymaker (as often as possible)

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

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Evidence Based Policy + Citizen Participation: can they be combined?

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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Three worthwhile questions on public philosophies

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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Defining problems or providing solutions? The role of ideas in policy debates

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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What is behind the idea of Evidence Based Policy?

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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Rethinking ideas – more than just policy solutions

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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Are researchers isolated from politics? Research within the policy process – from our Topic Gu

Clara Richards

Sep 3, 20132 min read

Are researchers isolated from politics? Research within the policy process – from our Topic Gu

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

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Clara Richards

Aug 14, 20133 min read

Moving our research agenda forward

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

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Clara Richards

Aug 8, 20131 min read

Defining problems or providing solutions? The role of ideas in policy debates

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

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Not ‘theories of change’ but ‘theories of how change happens’

Clara Richards

Aug 2, 20132 min read

Not ‘theories of change’ but ‘theories of how change happens’

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

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The Topic Guide on Politics and Ideas: Introduction

Clara Richards

Jun 4, 20133 min read

The Topic Guide on Politics and Ideas: Introduction

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

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Clara Richards

Jun 3, 20132 min read

A new Topic Guide on Politics and Ideas

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...

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Leaps of faith: the successful policy without evidence

Clara Richards

May 29, 20133 min read

Leaps of faith: the successful policy without evidence

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...

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Topic Guide on Politics & Ideas: Research and policy

Clara Richards

May 23, 20131 min read

Topic Guide on Politics & Ideas: Research and policy

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

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Politics & Ideas: An open research agenda

Clara Richards

May 22, 20133 min read

Politics & Ideas: An open research agenda

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

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Global research organisations, foreign funding and absent states: the health research agenda in Peru

Clara Richards

May 8, 20134 min read

Global research organisations, foreign funding and absent states: the health research agenda in Peru

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

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