Social science and policy challenges
Subtitle: democracy, values and capacities
By: edited by Georgios Papanagnou
Contributors: Unesco
Series: Research & policy series; Research & policy series (Unesco)
Publisher: UNESCO Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9789231042263
Subjects: Policy sciences; Research; Social sciences; Social sciences and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Building bridges? The challenges of social science for policy / Georgios Papanagnou; title: Making social science matter / Bent Flyvbjerg; title: Policy problems and democratic politics : instrumental rationality reconsidered / Douglas Torgerson; title: Social sciences and policy impact : the case for a participatory approach / Luk van Langenhove; title: Policy expertise and critical evaluation / Steven Griggs and David Howarth; title: Knowledge and politics inside the policy process : contradiction or complementarity? / Philippe Zittoun; title: Influencing policy : experience from the field / Fred Carden; title: Knowledge networks and transnational policy processes / Diane Stone; title: Think tanks, discursive institutionalism and policy change / Stella Ladi; title: Bringing EU social sciences and humanities research into policy : experience and prospects / Nikos Kastrinos; title: International organizations, social science research and national policy-making in Brazil : is it only evidence that matters? / Carlos R.S. Milani.