How do Federal Bureaucrats Get Informed? An X-ray of the Sources of Evidence Used in Policy Work
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2024Author
Koga, Natália Massaco
Palotti, Pedro Lucas de Moura
Lins, Rafael da Silva
Couto, Bruno Gontyjo do
Loureiro, Miguel
Lima, Shana Nogueira
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The use of scientific knowledge to support policy has been a debated issue since the emergence of the field of policy analysis (Lerner and Lasswell, 1951; Weiss, 1979). More recently, the evidence-based policy approach (EBP) resumes and extends this
debate by advocating for public decision-makers to use scientific evidence about “what works” to improve policy. On the one hand, EBP renews belief in the precepts of instrumental rationality and scientific neutrality as the foundation of policy decisions (Davies, Nutley and Smith, 2000). However, on the other hand, it catalyzes criticism from different analytical schools, such as the argumentative and post-structuralist ones, which provide the basis for different arguments about what would inform and provide
the basis for policy.
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Koga, N.; Palotti, P.; Lins, R.; Couto, B.; Loureiro, M. and Lima, S. (2024) 'How do Federal Bureaucrats Get Informed? An X-ray of the Sources of Evidence Used in Policy Work', in: Koga et al. (eds.), Public Policy and Use of Evidence in Brazil: Concepts, Methods, Contexts, and Practices, Brasília: Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea)DOI
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