Using Evidence in Policy: The Importance of Mediating Beliefs and Practices
Using Evidence in Policy: The Importance of Mediating Beliefs and Practices
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在政策中使用证据：调解信仰和实践的重要性
DOI：
10.1111/soru.12015
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Shortall S
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作者：
Shortall S
本文认为，为了理解证据在政策中的使用，我们需要研究公务员制度中的含义和实践如何塑造什么是被接受的知识，以及学术和政治的信仰和价值观之间的差异如何阻碍知识的流动和转移。它考虑了社会背景和共享意义在使知识合法化方面的重要性。世卫组织作为合法知识提供者的作用已经扩大，在这方面，利益攸关方群体和经验性知识的作用尤其令人感兴趣。审查了公务员系统中的等级制度、匿名性和通才知识如何调解政策中证据的使用。公务员和学院在价值观和意识形态上的不同，对如何解释和利用学术研究来制定政策，以及对其在知识权力斗争中的地位都有影响。关于为农村政策提供信息的证据的社会科学性质，有一些特殊的问题，这些证据被调停在一个更习惯于处理自然科学知识的政府部门。本文基于在英国农业和农村发展部进行的参与式观察。
This article argues that to understand the use of evidence in policy, we need to examine how meanings and practices in the civil service shape what is accepted as knowledge, and how differences between the beliefs and values of the academy and the polity can impede the flow and transfer of knowledge. It considers the importance of social context and shared meanings in legitimating knowledge. Who counts as legitimate knowledge providers has expanded and here the role of stakeholder groups and experiential knowledge is of particular interest. How hierarchy, anonymity, and generalist knowledge within the civil service mediate the use of evidence in policy is examined. The difference in values and ideology of the civil service and the academy has implications for how academic research is interpreted and used to formulate policy and for its position in knowledge power struggles. There are particular issues about the social science nature of evidence to inform rural policy being mediated in a government department more used to dealing with natural science knowledge. This article is based on participant observation carried out in a UK Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.