As we have already shared in some previous posts, P&I jointly with INASP are about to publish a study called “Going beyond context...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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 Catherine Fisher and it reflects on the paper ‘Lessons Learned’ by Vanesa Weyrauch. Catherine is...

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

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

[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...

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

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

[Editor’s note:  What is the role of partisan think tanks in political debates? In this series of blogs, Claudio Jones, researcher with...

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...

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...