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SUMMARY:Seminar – Why do policymakers seem to ignore your evidence? - Pr
 ofessor Paul Cairney\,  Department of History and Politics\, University of
  Stirling.
DTSTART:20180221T123000Z
DTEND:20180221T133000Z
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CONTACT:Paul Browne
DESCRIPTION:The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy Making challenges scient
 ists to understand the policy process before they describe it as pathologi
 cal and politicians as biased or ineffective. Policy studies are at the he
 art of such endeavours\, identifying the mechanisms of individual choice i
 n a complex policymaking environment\, to explain the ‘evidence-policy g
 ap’. Yet\, we cannot expect scientists trained in one discipline to retr
 ain in policy studies. Instead\, we need to find a way to explain key insi
 ghts in a way that captures their imagination\, identifies the payoffs to 
 studying policymaking from a political science perspective\, and encourage
 s them to learn more. I identify a three step plan. First\, show how polic
 y theories explain the policy process and the role of evidence in it. Seco
 nd\, identify the conditions under which evidence ‘wins the day’ in po
 licymaking\, Third\, identify the profound dilemmas that arise when we see
 k to maximise the use of scientific evidence in policy.
LOCATION:Meeting rooms\, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences\, Addenbr
 ooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC)
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