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- Title
Use of systematic literature reviews in Canadian government departments: Where do we need to go?
- Authors
Ouimet, Mathieu; Jette, Danny; Fonda, Marc; Jacob, Steve; Bédard, Pierre‐Olivier
- Abstract
The article reports on ongoing reflections on how to improve the structures and processes by which relevant research findings produced outside Canadian government departments (for example, in universities, think tanks or other research institutions) can be more effectively found, assessed for potential biases, synthesized and disseminated to provide support to government analysts, advisers and decision makers. The focus is on how to structure and routinize research use by government analysts and advisers within a large Canadian department that has a strategic research directorate and many program divisions. Our starting point is the current situation where literature reviews that are produced and used by government analysts and advisers do not correspond to the systematic review standards. We discuss four alternative models. In two models, the whole production process would be controlled from within the department. In the other two models, external actors such as university-based teams or independent non-governmental evidence centres would carry the leadership in producing those reviews.
- Subjects
CANADA; GOVERNMENT research; GOVERNMENT agencies; LITERATURE reviews; RESEARCH methodology; CANADIAN politics &; government
- Publication
Canadian Public Administration, 2017, Vol 60, Issue 3, p397
- ISSN
0008-4840
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/capa.12225