Abstract
There are good reasons why social science and evidence-based policy making are not always in tune with each other. The aim of this chapter is to help improve and advance the relationship between the two, but, equally, we do not want to fall into the trap of being naive about the inherently challenging character of the relationship. There are features of the way that policy processes operate and social science works that create tensions in the relationship. It is these tensions that we explore in this chapter.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Evidence-Based Policy Making in the Social Sciences |
| Subtitle of host publication | Methods that Matter |
| Editors | Gerry Stoker, Mark Evans |
| Place of Publication | Bristol, UK |
| Publisher | Policy Press |
| Chapter | 1 |
| Pages | 15-28 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781447329381 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781447329374 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2016 |