Can Policy Making be Evidence‐Based?

Abstract

Ministers are always calling for more evidence‐based interventions. Do they apply the same criterion to their own work of making policy? Perhaps surprisingly, policy making is not an evidence‐free zone. However, it is important to understand the ways in which policy makers in different situations will use information differently, count different kinds of information as evidence, and so exercise different styles of judgment.

Citation

Six, P. (2002), "Can Policy Making be Evidence‐Based?", Journal of Integrated Care, Vol. 10 No. 1, pp. 3-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/14769018200200002