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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...
Vanesa Weyrauch
Aug 2, 20173 min read
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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...
Joe Luetjens
Apr 26, 20175 min read
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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...
Leandro Echt and Vanesa Weyrauch
Oct 18, 20164 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Sep 6, 20163 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Aug 23, 20164 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Aug 16, 20164 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Jul 28, 20163 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Jul 14, 20165 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Jul 12, 20165 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Jul 7, 20164 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Jun 28, 20166 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Jun 1, 20163 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
May 18, 20163 min read
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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...
Leandro Echt and Vanesa Weyrauch
Mar 22, 20165 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Feb 24, 20163 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Oct 16, 20153 min read
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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...
Vanesa Weyrauch
Jul 16, 20154 min read
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