The evidence movement has attended more to improving the supply of evidence than to
increasing demand, so even as rigorous evidence production has increased, the use of …

Every year the federal government spends more than $600 billion on grants to fund
programs and services in education, social sectors, and health. When deliberating such …

Since 2015, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Policies for Action (P4A) research
program has been funding a growing body of work to understand how policies shape the …

The Politics of Evidence Based Policymaking identifies how to work with policymakers to
maximize the use of scientific evidence. Policymakers cannot consider all evidence relevant …

The renewed interest in evidence-based policy has been accompanied by a debate on the
nature and desirability of the use of evidence in policy-making. At its core, this debate pits …

At the dawn of 2000, science and research evidence feature prominently in government
pronouncements on food safety and agricultural policy in the UK. In the furore surrounding …

New thinking is needed on the age-old conundrum of how to connect research and
policymaking. Why does a disconnect exist between the research community, which is …

Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base
their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of …

All across society people use information to make good decisions. Policymakers and elected
officials must be held to the same standard and engage in evidence-based policymaking …

This book is for those who believe that good government should be based on hard
evidence, and that research and policy ought to go hand-in-hand. Unfortunately, no such …