Lawmakers' use of scientific evidence can be improved
Lawmakers' use of scientific evidence can be improved
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.2012955118
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发表时间：
2021-03-02
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Giray, Cagla
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作者：
Crowley, D. Max;Scott, J. Taylor;Giray, Cagla
科学探索目标的核心是指导未来决策的机会。然而，民选官员经常错过在决策中使用科学的机会。本工作报告了美国国会的一项实验——评估随机、双人群（即研究人员和国会办公室）外展模式的效果，以支持立法使用有关儿童和家庭政策问题的研究证据。在这个实验中，我们发现随机分配到干预组的国会办公室在实施干预后报告了比对照组更大的研究价值，以理解问题。在干预组引入的立法中也观察到更多的研究使用。此外，我们发现随机分配到干预措施的研究人员提高了他们自己的政策知识和参与度，并报告了实施后他们的研究的收益。
Core to the goal of scientific exploration is the opportunity to guide future decision-making. Yet, elected officials often miss opportunities to use science in their policymaking. This work reports on an experiment with the US Congress-evaluating the effects of a randomized, dual-population (i.e., researchers and congressional offices) outreach model for supporting legislative use of research evidence regarding child and family policy issues. In this experiment, we found that congressional offices randomized to the intervention reported greater value of research for understanding issues than the control group following implementation. More research use was also observed in legislation introduced by the intervention group. Further, we found that researchers randomized to the intervention advanced their own policy knowledge and engagement as well as reported benefits for their research following implementation.