Evidence of Democracy? The Relationship between Evidence-Based Policy and Democratic Government

Young, Shaun P.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1628186

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“…In contrast with government officials, politicians tend to rely more on their world view and political ideology as guides to policy direction (Mukerji 1990, Daw and Gray 2005, Juntti et al 2009, Young 2010a, Espinoza-Tenorio et al 2011. In this context, larger obstacles to implementing a socioecosystem-based approach to environmental policy in Mexico, or elsewhere, are, potentially, the entrenched political and economic interests currently benefitting from the status quo.…”

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Opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem-based environmental policy in Mexico: expert opinion at the science-policy interface

Challenger¹,

Córdova²,

Chavero³

et al. 2018

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ABSTRACT. The urgent need to revert the ecological and social equity crises of the current development model and realize the potential of sustainable development has led several disciplines to converge on the socioecosystem concept as the most appropriate theoretical framework for research and public policy. The socioecosystem approach recognizes that social systems are integrated with natural systems and seeks to adaptively comanage socioecosystem coevolution for the sustainable development of both systems. We hypothesize that incorporation of this approach into environmental policy in Mexico could help resolve many of the problems that currently undermine policy effectiveness. To find out to what extent policy professionals might concur with this hypothesis, and what the opportunities and obstacles to implementing socioecosystem-based policy might be, research was conducted to elicit the expert opinion of officials responsible for formulating and implementing environmental policy in Mexico. The principle opportunities consist in the fact that experts intuitively understand the socioecosystem approach, and that most perceive advantages in adopting it because its policy attributes can potentially help to resolve many of the factors they identify as limiting the success of current environmental policies. Obstacles to its adoption include institutional barriers and the vested interests that benefit from the status quo.

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Opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem-based environmental policy in Mexico: expert opinion at the science-policy interface

Challenger¹,

Córdova²,

Chavero³

et al. 2018

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“…Many scholars conclude that the two are fundamentally incompatible because of several factors. 6,25,26 First, the nature of the production of research and knowledge means that they are created with a particular frame of 'the good' and what is important. It is the task of public representatives to scrutinise knowledge production, and when and how knowledge should be used.…”

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Challenges of integrating evidence into health policy and planning: linking multiple disciplinary approaches

Schneider

Blyth

2017

Public Health Res Pr

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Objectives: To explore the challenges that arise through the multidisciplinary nature of evidence informed policy making (EIPM).Type of program or service: Education and practice for EIPM. Methods:This article summarises and compares four disciplinary approaches to EIPM with highly contrasting starting points: behavioural science, policy science, critical theory and intervention research. Key insights and theories are highlighted to provide a gateway into each, and to complement what is already known about the evidence needs of policy makers in terms of high-quality, timely and well-communicated research evidence. Lessons learnt:The extension of the evidence based medicine approach to EIPM has created interest in the processes of use of evidence in health policy and planning. Research in this field has spanned multiple disciplines; however, the disciplines use very different research methods and begin with different basic assumptions. Thus, despite the multidisciplinary nature of EIPM, true interdisciplinary research and action remain a challenge. We conclude with a set of key questions that can be used as a gateway to interdisciplinary EIPM in the future.

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“…In parallel terms Young () recalls Lasswell's () classic argument about the ‘well‐organised policy cycle’ as the ‘bridge between the democratic project and rational knowledge’. It is not odd that proponents of evidence‐based policy so readily claim to see in evidence‐based policy an expression of Enlightenment values like rationality and the use of science.…”

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Truth and Politics: Thinking About Evidence‐Based Policy in the Age Of Spin

Watts

2014

Aust J Public Adm

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Evidence‐based policy and the contemporary politics of spin are said to characterise contemporary politics and policy. The paper asks firstly what sense is to be made of this coincidence, and then documents this coincidence. It then asks how credible is the conception of ‘evidence’ espoused by advocates of evidence‐based policy when it is conventionally represented as an ‘objective’ counter to ideology, spin or opinion? It points to major problems with the conventional understandings of ‘evidence’. It is suggested that while the evidence‐based policy literature relies on the associations ‘evidence’ is presumed to have with ‘sensory data’, this is neither the case nor all that defensible. The paper reprises arguments advanced by Henry Mayer and Hannah Arendt that the relationship of politics to the empirical was and is a far more complex relationship than is conventionally understood to be the case.

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Evidence of Democracy? The Relationship between Evidence-Based Policy and Democratic Government

Cited by 5 publications

References 48 publications

Opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem-based environmental policy in Mexico: expert opinion at the science-policy interface

Opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem-based environmental policy in Mexico: expert opinion at the science-policy interface

Challenges of integrating evidence into health policy and planning: linking multiple disciplinary approaches

Truth and Politics: Thinking About Evidence‐Based Policy in the Age Of Spin

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