Foundations of Program Evaluation heralds a thorough exploration of the field of program
evaluation--looking back on its origins. By summarizing, comparing, and contrasting the …

Recent scholarly research into public policy has stressed the role of knowledge in the policy
process. The variety of concepts and approaches to the study of knowledge seems puzzling …

Evidence-based decision-making is centred on the justification of decisions. In the shift from
an individual-clinical to a population-policy level, the decision-making context becomes …

The benefits of utilizing intermediaries to broker understanding between environmental
scientists and policy makers have become widely touted. Yet little is known about the tasks …

Background It has been argued that science and society are in the midst of a far-reaching
renegotiation of the social contract between science and society, with society becoming a far …

Formulation of effective sustainability indicators for national assessment demands a
comprehensive understanding of the utilisation, diffusion and dissemination of information in …

The policy analysis movement revolves around the idea that a generic analytic toolkit can be
productively applied to substantive policy problems, but different patterns of policy analysis …

This study explores the formation of the European Union's tax policy and asks why member
states did not raise objections to it. The author's analysis is enriched by two further levels of …

Understanding causal influence is difficult in the best of circumstances for any activity: it is an
especially complex task to assess the impact and role of research on public policymaking …

For over a century and a half, reformers, researchers and politicians have complained that
social and public health policy is not based on evidence. Linear models of knowledge …