Making Sense of ‘What Works’: Evidence Based Policy Making as Instrumental Rationality?

By I. Sanderson. 2002

137 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Public Administration

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In Management Science and Operations Research

1. A. Jordan
2. Jason Potts
3. Björn Nykvist
4. T. Kastelle
5. J. Turnpenny

In Public Administration

1. T. Kastelle
2. Jason Potts

Citations in the corpus

• Public sector innovation research: What’s next? (2010, background): “Most reports or audits of public sector innovation contain it as one of the many recommended actions, particularly in regard to evidence-based policy (Leicester 1999, Davies et al. 2000, Sanderson 2002, Leigh 2005, Staley 2008, Banks 2009).”
• Why is integrating policy assessment so hard? A comparative analysis of the institutional capacities and constraints (2008, background): “The assumption that the use of analysis in policy making is an objective activity is also disputable, given claims that evidence is itself a social construct (Sanderson 2002) which be used by powerful actors to pursue their interests (Flyvbjerg 1998, Owens 2005).”