Clara Richards
Learning from and with others: an experience with the Think Tank Initiative
By Denise Krebs under CC license In June 2014 the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) commissioned Politics&Ideas to undertake a ‘light touch...
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Clara Richards
- Apr 15, 2014
- 3 min
Do like Adam Smith: Ride the train with your policymaker (as often as possible)
Some of the arguably most fundamental, longest-lasting changes in the world economy resulted from the policy influencing efforts of an...
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Clara Richards
- Feb 27, 2014
- 4 min
Evidence Based Policy + Citizen Participation: can they be combined?
[Editor’s note: This post was written by René Cardoso Baltazar (@rcardosob), strategic advisor to the International Foundation for the...
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Clara Richards
- Oct 30, 2013
- 3 min
Three worthwhile questions on public philosophies
[Editor’s note: This reflection is based on our paper “Defining problems or providing solutions? The role of ideas in policy debates”. It...
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Clara Richards
- Oct 21, 2013
- 3 min
Defining problems or providing solutions? The role of ideas in policy debates
Today I am sharing a new working paper with you: “Defining problems or providing solutions? The role of ideas in policy debates.” Ideas...
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Clara Richards
- Oct 10, 2013
- 4 min
What is behind the idea of Evidence Based Policy?
In the previous post, I shared Jal Mehta’s framework that can help us take apart an idea into its different dimensions (I suggest you...
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Clara Richards
- Sep 27, 2013
- 3 min
Rethinking ideas – more than just policy solutions
One of the areas of interest of our research agenda are ideas. I agree, conceptualizing ideas, and exploring where they come from, how...
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Clara Richards
- Sep 3, 2013
- 2 min
Are researchers isolated from politics? Research within the policy process – from our Topic Gu
Researchers are not separate from politics. The separation between research and policy -and politics- is useful for researchers and their...
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Clara Richards
- Aug 14, 2013
- 3 min
Moving our research agenda forward
In the upcoming weeks we will start sharing some of the research currently being carried out as to develop our research agenda. The...
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Clara Richards
- Aug 8, 2013
- 1 min
Defining problems or providing solutions? The role of ideas in policy debates
In 2013, P&I published the paper Defining problems or providing solutions? The role of ideas in policy debates, by Andrea Ordoñez. A...
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Clara Richards
- Aug 2, 2013
- 2 min
Not ‘theories of change’ but ‘theories of how change happens’
Theory of Change has become a buzzword across the development industry. It is a new tool in the toolbox that consultants use for...
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Clara Richards
- Jun 4, 2013
- 3 min
The Topic Guide on Politics and Ideas: Introduction
Evidence based policy has, as the Topic Guide states in its introduction, become a sort of holy grail for policymakers (in the North and...
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Clara Richards
- Jun 3, 2013
- 2 min
A new Topic Guide on Politics and Ideas
Our first product is a Topic Guide on Politics and Ideas. We have worked intensely to produce it but we know that we need your help to...
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Clara Richards
- May 29, 2013
- 3 min
Leaps of faith: the successful policy without evidence
Finnish schools are among the best in the world, but did not know, and apparently did not want to know it. Ironically, Finns found out...
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Clara Richards
- May 23, 2013
- 1 min
Topic Guide on Politics & Ideas: Research and policy
This Topic Guide covers a number of topic and issues identified during a process of discussion and debate among the team members and...
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Clara Richards
- May 22, 2013
- 3 min
Politics & Ideas: An open research agenda
Creating a research agenda is always an exciting job. On the one hand, we are always seeking for overarching structures and frameworks...
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Clara Richards
- May 8, 2013
- 4 min
Global research organisations, foreign funding and absent states: the health research agenda in Peru
In the academic world, little attention has been paid to how the priorities and agendas of global research organisations, along with...
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