The Last 20 Years of Empirical Research on Government Utilization of Academic Social Science Research
A State-of-the-Art Literature Review
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11630303 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jenenne P Nelson (0000-0002-3010-2046, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, corresponding author), Spencer Lindsay (0000-0001-8368-7933, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA), Barry Bozeman (0000-0002-8084-3379, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1479-1528 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Administration & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-3997 • E-ISSN: 1552-3039 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00953997231172923 |
| OpenAlex | W4378652094 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 143 |
We organize and critique the last 20 years of empirical research on policy utilization of academic social science, offering eight recommendations for future research: (1) improvement in utilization measures; (2) greater alignment on constructs of interest; (3) greater address of different national contexts; 4) study of mechanisms connecting academic research to policymakers; (5) incorporation of knowledge on information search; (6) attention to differences between utilization of policy, social, and physical science in different sectors; (7) evaluative inquiry on the effects of research utilization; and (8) investigation of the value of research in addressing different classes of societal problems
Empirical research · Epistemology · Government (linguistics · Political science · Public policy · Public relations · Social research · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Value (mathematics · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research
How does knowledge utilization influence climate policy innovation? Energy modelling and the legitimization of the 55% target in the European Union
Public officials’ motivated reasoning and their interpretation of policy information
A research agenda for studying evidence-informed practice in urban planning
How do academic public administration and public policy researchers affect policymaking? Functional groupings from survey data
Speaking truth to power … or to the Ivory tower? Public affairs researchers’ reports of practitioners’ use of their research
Claiming Relevance for Social Science and the Humanities
Policy impacts of public administration and policy research
Strategies for utilizing research findings for policy, program design and practice in child and family social services
Governing the trade-off between the co-production of actionable knowledge and academic publishing in transdisciplinary sustainability research
Why do some academic articles receive more citations from policy communities
Organizational and Individual Factors of Evidence Informed Policy Making in Public Organizations
Computers, communications, and the public interest.
Science and Public Reason
Designs on Nature
Between Politics and Science
Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus
Methodology Review
Research collaboration in universities and academic entrepreneurship
Wicked Problems in Design Thinking
Academic engagement
Policy capacity and evidence-based policy in the public service
Guidelines for snowballing in systematic literature studies and a replication in software engineering
Rational choice and the structure of the environment.
Value of Everything
The Moon and the Ghetto revisited
Handbook of Public Policy Analysis
Using Policy Labs as a process to bring evidence closer to public policymaking
Fostering knowledge translation in Africa’s flagship universities
Imagined Democracies
The Honest Broker
Risk and Culture
Trust in Numbers
Teacher, Researcher and … Policy Actor? Social Work Academics’ Involvement in Social Policy
Deep impact
Reports of practitioners’ use of public affairs faculty published research
Deconstructing the debate over evidence-based policy
Does climate change knowledge really matter
Realizing the Promise of Research in Policymaking
The impact of research on education policy in an era of evidence-based policy
Knowledge mobilisation builds local research collaborations for social innovation
Perspectives of academic social scientists on knowledge transfer and research collaborations
Reflections of ‘knowledge exchange professionals’ in the social sciences
Sustaining knowledge exchange and research impact in the social sciences and humanities
Correlates of consulting research evidence among policy analysts in government ministries
Inside out
Explaining variation in evidence-based policy making in the American states
Policy networks revisited
Everyday stories of impact
Improving the use of evidence in legislatures
Use of academic social research by public officials
A collaborative approach to defining the usefulness of impact
Using evidence in shaping disability policy in Romania
Some Canadian contributions to understanding knowledge mobilisation
The past and present of triangulation and social representations theory
How science makes environmental controversies worse
Are policy-makers interested in social research? Exploring the sources and uses of valued information among public servants in Australia
Improving ESE policy through research-practice partnerships
Pasteur's Quadrant
Theory–Practice Exchange in Local Government Management
How can researchers facilitate the utilisation of research by policy-makers and practitioners in education
The (almost) imperceptible impact of tourism research on policy and practice
University—Government Policy Linkages and the Knowledge-based Approach to Internation Development
If Dissemination Is the Solution, What Is the Problem
Australian Social Work Research
E-Advocacy in the Information Market
Meeting the Challenges of Policy‐Relevant Science
The Extent and Determinants of the Utilization of University Research in Government Agencies
Do Policy Makers Use Academic Research? Reexamining the “Two Communities” Theory of Research Utilization
The Many Meanings of Research Utilization
Topic Modeling the Research‐Practice Gap in Public Administration
Toward More “Evidence‐Informed” Policy Making
Public Administration Scholarship and the Politics of Coproducing Academic–Practitioner Research
Mapping the use of knowledge in policymaking
Intellectualizing about the moon-ghetto metaphor
Engaging Experts
Effective academic–practitioner collaboration on gender research in federal law enforcement
Academic policy advice in consensus-seeking countries
Science for the post-normal age
Lessons from the evidence on evidence‐based policy
What Makes a Good Decision? Robust Satisficing as a Normative Standard of Rational Decision Making
Public policy's bibliography
Partisan Bias and Information Discounting in Economic Judgments
Truth’ junkies
Boundary troubles
Evidence-Based Practice and the Use of Information in State Agency Decision Making
What Do Policymakers Want From Us? Results of a Survey of Current and Former Senior National Security Decision Makers
Toward a Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Model of Health Care Research Use
Climbing the Ladder of Research Utilization
Research Utilization in the Social Sciences
New Evidence on Instrumental, Conceptual, and Symbolic Utilization of University Research in Government Agencies
Cognitive sophistication does not attenuate the bias blind spot
Trust at zero acquaintance
Qualitative Data Analysis
No funeral bells
Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix
Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election
Cognizance and Consultation of Randomized Controlled Trials among Ministerial Policy Analysts
When Is Science Used in Science Policy? Examining the Importance of Scientific and Technical Information in National Research Council Reports
Decision-Making Perspectives from Psychology
The Two-Communities Theory and Knowledge Utilization
Seeing Like a StateHow Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Telling Policy Stories
The Perilous Road from Evidence to Policy
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |