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Vanesa Weyrauch
Aug 2, 20173 min read
Improving the use of knowledge in the Secretariat for Public Administration of the Prime (SGP) Minis
About a month ago, Politics & Ideas and INASP invited government agencies to participate in an opportunity to improve the use of...
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Joe Luetjens
Apr 26, 20175 min read
A primer on policy entrepreneurs
[Editor’s note: This post was originally published by Joe Luetjens, a PhD fellow in the Successful Public Governance program at Utrecht...
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Leandro Echt and Vanesa Weyrauch
Oct 18, 20164 min read
Conceptual framework for how public institutions generate and use knowledge /Culture 1
[Editor’s note: This post is part a series produced by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt from Politics&Ideas to present the conceptual...
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Clara Richards
Sep 6, 20163 min read
Conceptual framework for how public institutions generate and use knowledge / Macro-context (Circums
By screenpunk at flickr.com under CC We have focused our first post of the series on the structural factors of macro-context, which very...
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Clara Richards
Aug 23, 20164 min read
Conceptual framework for how public institutions generate and use knowledge / Macro-context
[Editor’s note: This post is part a series produced by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt from Politics&Ideas to present the conceptual...
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Clara Richards
Aug 16, 20164 min read
Think-tanking in environments with low value assigned to research
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Simonida Kacarska, Research Coordinator at the European Policy Institute, Macedonia. It is the...
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Clara Richards
Jul 28, 20163 min read
Choosing to innovate on your research agenda
[Editor’s note: This post is the eighth of a series produced by Andrea Ordóñez and Leandro Echt from Politics & Ideas to share what we...
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Clara Richards
Jul 14, 20165 min read
Understanding policy problems and their implications in your research decisions
[Editor’s note: This post is the sixth of a series produced by Andrea Ordóñez and Leandro Echt from Politics & Ideas to share what we...
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Clara Richards
Jul 12, 20165 min read
Drafting and validating your research agenda
[Editor’s note: This post is the fifth of a series produced by Andrea Ordóñez and Leandro Echt from Politics & Ideas to share what we...
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Clara Richards
Jul 7, 20164 min read
Why do we need to analyze our context to design a research agenda?
[Editor’s note: This post is the fourth of a series produced by Andrea Ordóñez and Leandro Echt from Politics & Ideas to share what we...
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Clara Richards
Jun 28, 20166 min read
Framework to get knowledge into policy. Dimension #1: Macro-context: structural factors that draw cl
[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series focused on sharing findings from the conceptual framework developed under the study “Going...
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Clara Richards
Jun 1, 20163 min read
Going beyond “Context matters”: our conceptual framework is ready waiting for you!
Our study on how context matters is finally here to share! After several months of reading, interviewing people and systematizing...
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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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Leandro Echt and Vanesa Weyrauch
Mar 22, 20165 min read
Our focus for context: governmental institutions
[Editor’s note: This post is part a series produced by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt from Politics&Ideas to share what we learn...
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Clara Richards
Feb 24, 20163 min read
So, what is context?
As we have already shared in a previous post, P&I jointly with INASP are developing a study called “Going beyond context matters”, which...
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Clara Richards
Oct 16, 20153 min read
Experiences from government institutions: how can we deal better with context?
In a recent post we shared that we are currently conducting with INASP a study called “Going beyond context matters”, which has two main...
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Vanesa Weyrauch
Jul 16, 20154 min read
Going beyond “Context matters”
By Dave Winer under CC at flickr.com [Editor’s note: This post is part a series produced by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt from...
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