#Politics

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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The 3Ps: Politics, Policymaking and Politicians

Clara Richards

Nov 11, 20145 min read

The 3Ps: Politics, Policymaking and Politicians

For a decade and a half now, I have been exposed to what I call the 3Ps – politics, policymaking, and politicians. Particularly, my work...

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Capacity development for policymakers: a new opportunity to learn and co-create relevant knowledge

Clara Richards

Sep 2, 20143 min read

Capacity development for policymakers: a new opportunity to learn and co-create relevant knowledge

Thanks to the support of Vayayiko Grants from INASP, at P&I we have recently started a new project to enhance current capacity of...

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Good communications is not enough to get evidence into policy

Clara Richards

May 29, 20144 min read

Good communications is not enough to get evidence into policy

[Editor’s Note: This post was written by Clara Richards, programme manager at INASP, and was originally published at INASP’s blog] I...

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The need for expertise: how Civil Society Organisations engage with the Regulatory State

Clara Richards

May 16, 20143 min read

The need for expertise: how Civil Society Organisations engage with the Regulatory State

This post is based on a commentary by Kathryn Hochstetler that assesses the ways in which members of civil society “often shadow and...

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Researcher’s habits: unlocking the potential for impact?

Clara Richards

Apr 22, 20143 min read

Researcher’s habits: unlocking the potential for impact?

In a previous post, I discussed why I think that the objective of informing policy should be considered from the onset of a research...

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Unraveling the politics of capacity building

Clara Richards

Apr 17, 20144 min read

Unraveling the politics of capacity building

Among the things I find most appealing in the work I do is finding people who are willing to learn together with both an inquisitive and...

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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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The politics of capacity building for greater research-policy linkages – a reflection on Lesso

Clara Richards

Apr 8, 20144 min read

The politics of capacity building for greater research-policy linkages – a reflection on Lesso

[Editor’s note: This post was written by Catherine Fisher and it reflects on the paper ‘Lessons Learned’ by Vanesa Weyrauch. Catherine is...

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Power and ideology are the keys to communicating research

Clara Richards

Apr 1, 20143 min read

Power and ideology are the keys to communicating research

[Editor’s Note: This post is a reflection on the webinar ‘Nevermind the research piece! Communicating in Policy Environments’. It was...

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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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Partisan think tanks: a double-edged sword

Clara Richards

Feb 18, 20142 min read

Partisan think tanks: a double-edged sword

[Editor’s note: This is the third of a series of blogs by Claudio Jones on partisan think tanks. The first post can be read here, and...

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Clara Richards

Jan 6, 20144 min read

What do partisan think tanks seek?

Is the political role of partisan think tanks -in Latin America’s new democracies and elsewhere- equivalent to the standard concept of...

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Clara Richards

Dec 19, 20131 min read

Protocol for case study writing

[Editor’s note: This post introduces a new material produced by Anne Lan K. Candelaria for Politics & Ideas. This case study protocol...

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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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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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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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