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- Title
Only connect: Why government often ignores research.
- Authors
Mead, Lawrence
- Abstract
Most academic research on public policy achieves little influence in government. The disconnect reflects the different ways researchers and government learn about policy. In social policy, typically, scholars make rigorous but narrow arguments about how to improve social conditions while saying little about politics or government. Policymakers, however, reason in broader, integrative ways and pay more attention to program experience and institutions. Evaluations have influence in part because they serve the governmental style. By reasoning more like policymakers, scholars could have greater influence. But to make that connection, the teaching of public policy and academic incentives must change.
- Subjects
POLICY sciences; POLICY analysis; UNIVERSITY research; GOVERNMENT policy -- Social aspects; DECISION making in social policy; POLITICAL planning
- Publication
Policy Sciences, 2015, Vol 48, Issue 2, p257
- ISSN
0032-2687
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11077-015-9216-y