Mapping out the research-policy matrix : a report on the outputs from the first International Forum on the Social Science-Policy Nexus / edited by Germán Solinís and Nicolas Baya-Laffite.
"Social science research provides not only abstract, conceptual knowledge about society but also concrete, instrumental knowledge. It enables us to take action to recompose the world we live in. However, this book rejects narrow and simplistic conceptions of research use and its impact on polic...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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Paris :
UNESCO Pub.,
2011.
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| Series: | Research & policy series (Unesco)
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Table of Contents:
- Framing the links. Instrumental approaches to the links
- Focusing on the conceptual uses of research in the policy process
- Focusing on specific actors shaping the nexus between social science and policy
- Conclusion
- Collected documents. The politics of knowledge management
- A knowledge system for managing social transformations
- Research and policy-making in the field of health at the federal level in Canada
- The governmentality of consultancy and competition: the influence of the OECD
- The knowledge base for the work of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization
- Globalization and the new social conditions of development and democracy
- The knowledge commitment and city management
- Metropolitan environmental management and the contribution of the University of São Paulo.