Expert report series: Developing an evaluation framework for science for policy ecosystems
The topic of this report is highly convoluted and even complex: namely how to monitor the use of scientific knowledge and evidence in policymaking. The purpose of such monitoring is to contribute to the improvement of evidence advisory ecosystems across Europe. The report takes a philosophical approach by asking about the essential features of evidence advisory ecosystems, or rather the essential features of good evidence advisory ecosystems. It connects that topic to old philosophical debates about what constitutes (good) science and (good) governance, and shows that in European policy discourse, the philosophically obsolete Cartesian Dream of prediction and control and of Science speaking Truth to Power, still finds its expression. Philosophically and empirically updated visions of a good relationship between science and policy are finding their way into policy discourse, however – visions represented by academic concepts such as “honest brokers”, “strong objectivity” and “post-normal science”, but also vernacular concepts such as transparency and fairness. The report argues for contextuality and pluralism: What constitutes a good relationship and a good evidence advisory ecosystem, depends on the issues at hand and what is at stake, and there is legitimate plurality of views on such questions.
STRAND Roger;
KRIEGER Kristian;
MELCHOR FERNANDEZ Lorenzo;
Strand, R., Indicator dashboards in governance of evidence-informed policymaking: Thoughts on rationale and design criteria, Krieger, K. and Melchor Fernandez, L. editor(s), Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2022, ISBN 978-92-76-53652-9, doi:10.2760/328204, JRC129902.
2022-07-06
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC129902
978-92-76-53652-9 (online),
OP KJ-09-22-277-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC129902,
10.2760/328204 (online),
