Experts as researchers and policy actors

Czech pension reform

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ID12608263
AuthorsMartin Potůček (0000-0002-7429-7922, Center of Social and Economic Strategies, Faculty of Social Sciences Charles University Prague Czech Republic, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume32
Issue1
Pages58-66
Publication date2022-01-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Social Welfare (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1369-6866 • E-ISSN: 1468-2397
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ijsw.12525
OpenAlexW4206153975
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited8

Is it possible to act simultaneously as an expert and co‐policymaker without breaking the rules for knowledge‐based social policies? Trying to answer this question, I recap my experience as Chairman of the Czech Government‐established Expert Committee on Pension Reform in 2013–2017. I reflected on it analysing and advising on the path of the Czech pension reform. Applying theories of actor‐centred and discursive institutionalism, I analysed the rich empirical evidence based on the content of manyfold actors’ discourses. My involvement gave me a chance to participatorily observe the behaviour of formal and informal actors and thus learn more about their ideological positions, communication and negotiation strategies, and final embodiments of these disputes in policy proposals and acts. I analysed the roles of experts as moderators of discourse, analysts, and policy actors themselves. Following this experience, I offer some tentative conclusions for further discussion

Czech · Economics · Government (linguistics · Ideology · Institutionalism · Law and economics · Negotiation · Pension · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public relations · Sociology · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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