Incentives for Impact: Relevance Regimes Through a Cross-National Perspective

Bandola‐Gill, Justyna; Flinders, Matthew; Brans, Marleen

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-75918-6_2

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A Theoretical Perspective on the Roles of Political Scientists in Policy Advisory Systems

Brans

Timmermans

Gouglas

2022

The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Europe

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This chapter presents a theoretical perspective for studying the policy advisory roles of political scientists, drawing upon literature on knowledge utilization and policy advisory systems. It first proposes a locational model as a heuristic tool for mapping the advisory activities of academic political scientists in the academic, government and societal arenas, and the intersections between these. For comparative purposes, it considers policy advisory systems as on the one hand reflecting civic epistemologies and political-administrative social systems within countries, and on the other hand as being subject to such global trends towards the externalization and politicization of advice. Secondly, it defines what policy advice is, how its content may vary, and how, to whom, and at which levels of government it is communicated. Thirdly, in order to distinguish engagements and activities of individual academics engaging in advisory work, the chapter construct a typology of four advisory roles: the pure academic, the expert, the opinionating scholar, and the public intellectual.

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A Theoretical Perspective on the Roles of Political Scientists in Policy Advisory Systems

Brans

Timmermans

Gouglas

2022

The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Europe

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There, across the border – political scientists and their boundary-crossing work

Squevin,

Pattyn,

Jungblut

et al. 2024

Policy Sci

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Scholars may be diversely engaged in boundary-crossing work, either staying more confined in academic settings, or reaching out to the policy world. Despite growing theoretical attention, there is little empirical knowledge on the extent to which scholars indeed engage in boundary-crossing activities, and the conditions that foster or jeopardize this. We use original survey data from European political scientists to investigate how frequently they ‘travel’ to the policy world, what patterns of engagement are visible, and how these are determined. The article introduces a typology capturing different boundary-crossing profiles and shows that political scientists are rather frequent travelers across the border between academia and the policy world. Yet, individual characteristics matter. Having (had) a position outside of academia has an especially strong effect on the likelihood of boundary-crossing. Our results also reveal that not every scholar has the same chance to be involved, depending on gender or seniority.

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Out of the ivory tower: an explanation of the policy advisory roles of political scientists in Europe

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Incentives for Impact: Relevance Regimes Through a Cross-National Perspective

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

A Theoretical Perspective on the Roles of Political Scientists in Policy Advisory Systems

A Theoretical Perspective on the Roles of Political Scientists in Policy Advisory Systems

There, across the border – political scientists and their boundary-crossing work

Out of the ivory tower: an explanation of the policy advisory roles of political scientists in Europe

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