Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Evidence-Based Policy: Do Knowledge Brokers Help?
We need to bridge the gap between academic research and public policy. Sarah Quarmby takes a look inside a knowledge brokering organization, the Wales Centre for Public Policy, to see how its day-to-day workings tally with the body of knowledge about evidence use in policymaking.
Washington and Social Science: Evidence-Based Policy Bill Advances
The House and Senate approved their respective versions of a tax reform package (the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act). The House also approved the Protecting Seniors Access to Medicare Act, the Community Health and Medical Professionals Improve Our Nation Act, and the 21st Century Flood Reform Act. The House and Senate also cleared the final House-Senate conference report to the fiscal year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act.
Washington and Social Science: Bills on Evidence-Based Policy, Peer-Review
While most eyes in Washington are focused on tax reform, two new bills that affect social science have been introduced: one that re configures how peer-review would be used for determining research grants, and another that would make use of recommendations from a bipartisan study on evidence-based policy.
Uncle Sam’s Evidence-Based Policy Panel Looking for Input
n the coming year a 15-member panel created through a new federal law will examine how data, research and evaluation are currently being used in policy and program design, and how they could be.
Evidence-Based Policy: The Challenges
David Canter reviews new research studying the challenges of social science contributing to policy making.
Evidence-based policy-making: report by UK parliamentary committee
A report published by the UK’s House of Lords Science and Technology Sub-committee on behavioural change policy finds that ‘nudges’ and similar […]
Semantic Metadata and Evidence-Based Policy Assessment
An increasingly wide range of research resources is being placed online, and the traditional journal article is being supplemented with access to data sets, […]
Rosanna Smart Featured at Mark Kleiman Innovation for Public Policy Memorial Lecture
Economist Rosanna Smart, a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, will be the featured speaker at the 2025 […]
