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Policy entrepreneurship for poverty reduction: bridging research and policy in international development
Author(s) -
Court Julius,
Maxwell Simon
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.1234
Subject(s) - bridging (networking) , entrepreneurship , poverty reduction , poverty , politics , value (mathematics) , political science , economic growth , research policy , public relations , civil society , sociology , public administration , economics , law , computer network , machine learning , computer science
Bridging research and policy is a topic of growing practical and scholarly interest in both North and South. Contributions by four experienced practitioners and in four papers by researchers illustrate the value of existing frameworks and add four new lessons: the need for donors and research foundations to foster research capacity and to protect it from political interference; the need for researchers to use detailed case material in order to inform high‐level policy debates within and across national boundaries, often by working in cross‐country teams; the importance of presenting research results in such a way that they cannot be over‐simplified; and the value of creating alliances between researchers and civil society advocacy groups. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.