Knowledge brokers and policy advice in policy formulation

A long‐term perspective on entrepreneurial strategies and their impact on British road policy

“…Such an expertise is accumulated over time. Scholars currently assume conditions under which opportunistic entrepreneurs run short of time to influence a particular policy decision before a window of opportunity closes (Bandola‐Gill & Lyall, ; Gunn, ). This study confirms their observations and moves the spotlight at activities of incremental entrepreneurs that at the same time use their extensive knowledge of the policy process and established relationships to prevent rapid changes.…”

“…In doing so, they have been found to be able to mobilize the necessary resources to impact the policy process (see, e.g., Dudley & Richardson, ). Other case studies find that some individuals can offer issue expertise but lack the capacity or time to develop the political knowledge necessary to identify and address the information needs of individuals in positions of authority (Bandola‐Gill & Lyall, ; Gunn, ). Gollust, Hallett, Kenny, and Stokes (), for example, show that in the U.S. health sector, policy‐makers and issue experts lack the time and the mutual trust to engage in evidence‐based policy‐making.…”

“…In both cases we find evidence that policy entrepreneurs focused their resources on the brokerage of knowledge, including activities aimed at accessing, narrating, and communicating to a person of influence information relevant to policy development or implementation (Bandola‐Gill & Lyall, ). The available findings suggest that in each policy subsystem a group of incrementalists, consisting of engineers and planners, monopolized policy advice for the greater part of the last century.…”

Visual brokerage: Communicating data and research through visualisation

“…Studies into ‘knowledge brokerage’ which includes ‘all the activity that links decision makers with researchers’ ( Lomas, 2007 : 131) show how users connect with researchers via ‘intermediaries’ who translate and repackage information into more accessible forms. These intermediaries – which may include staff members of think tanks, news organisations or academic journals to name a few – use their roles as brokers to shape the knowledge flowing through them ( Bandola-Gill and Lyall, 2017 ; Spiegelhalter, 2017 ).…”

Os desafios da sociedade não têm fronteiras: impacto da pesquisa acadêmica interdisciplinar em polí­ticas públicas

“…até representantes de um corpo profissional. A complexidade desse ciclo de políticas públicas tem aumentado nas últimas décadas e os motivos mais citados para essa mudança são a base de conhecimento em constante crescimento e o caráter multifacetado dos problemas modernos (Hanney et al, 2003;Bandola-Gill & Lyall, 2017). Dessa forma, há uma pressão cada vez maior para aumentar a interação entre responsáveis por políticas públicas e pesquisadores e promover o uso de resultados e evidências de pesquisas no ciclo de políticas públicas (Bandola-Gill & Lyall, 2017).…”