Background: While current public policy scholarship can take advantage of a decades-long
accumulated knowledge base on the relationship between evidence and policy, it is hard to …

Despite progress in some public policy domains, as reported in the first half of this book,
making a reality of evidence-based policy and practice remains a major challenge. Chapter …

This paper argues that evidence-based policy has clearly made a worldwide impact, at least
at the rhetorical and institutional levels, and in terms of analytical activity. The paper then …

Introduction Researchers advocating for evidence-informed policy have attempted to
encourage policymakers to develop a greater understanding of research and researchers to …

The relationship between evidence and policy is far from straightforward. Perspectives
range from the idealism of 'evidence-driven policy making'(where evidence sets the agenda …

From its inception, this journal has been concerned with connections between evidence,
policy and practice. The decision to devote a section of the journal to practice reflected an …

This section of Evidence & Policy has two main objectives: to inform readers about the
development of evidence-informed policy and practice, as reflected in the literature; and to …

In exploring the role of evidence in policy and practice we have drawn attention to the very
wide range of types of knowledge that can inform policy makers, practitioners and other …

The attention for the use of evidence in the policy process has received renewed attention in
recent years with explicit calls for 'evidence-based policy'(EBP). This idea is not new and …

This chapter identifies an 'ideal-type'of evidence-based policymaking (EBPM) and the
factors required to produce an 'optimal'policy process. It compares this image with more …