- Read more: To Change the World, We Need to Rethink Research-Policy Engagement
This paper examines the landscape of knowledge mobilisation initiatives, and summarises what we know, what we don’t, and what we need to do next as a research community.
- Read more: Navigating the Adoption of AI for Policymaking
In this paper, the author draws on his experiences working with various types of public organisations across different countries at the intersection of economic policymaking and computational methods to argue that the current hype for AI has unique characteristics that call for rethinking how public institutions adopt this technology for policymaking. The paper underlines that…
- Read more: Implementation-minded policy making
This paper, written by a team of researchers from the Centre for Evidence and Implementation and the Wales Centre for Public Policy, examines how bad implementation can result in policy failure. The authors show how successful policy implementation depends on the interaction between the content or ‘logic’ of the policy and the implementation context, highlighting…
- Read more: Public Participation Networks and Local Democracy: Addressing Challenges and Amplifying Opportunities
This paper, drawing upon a combination of research funded by the IRC (now Research Ireland) New Foundations programme[i] and PhD research on deliberative democracy and economic inequality, explores some of the opportunities and barriers experienced by PPN members and staff, and the potential means of addressing these barriers.
- Read more: How young people facing disadvantage view democracy in Europe
The Think-tank for Action on Social Change (TASC) has published a co-authored policy brief that provides insight into how young people who experience socioeconomic disadvantage perceive politics and democracy in their country.
