Clara Richards
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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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 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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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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