Blending the two communities: concurrent evidence use in state-level policy processes
Date
2025-01-07
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Publisher
Public Management Review
Abstract
The evidence-based paradigm is one way to ensure public resources are put to effective use. But the uptake of scientific evidence has been limited. We analyse US state reports on autonomous vehicles and the opioid crisis response to explore how evidence is used in state-level processes. We find evidence of three knowledge types -scientific, practice, and political - visible in the reports and extend existing work on knowledge types in use to illustrate not just that they are used, but that they are used in conjunction with each other. These findings require a re-examination of the way ‘evidence’ is discussed in the literature.
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Public Management Review on 01/07/2025, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2024.2448515.
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Keywords
evidence-based policy, autonomous vehicles, opioid addiction, policy reports
Citation
Isett, Kimberley R., Diana Hicks, and Gordon Kingsley. 2025. “Blending the Two Communities: Concurrent Evidence Use in State-Level Policy Processes.” Public Management Review, January, 1–18. doi:10.1080/14719037.2024.2448515.