Evidence-based policymaking (EBPM)

Kat Smith; Tina Haux

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Evidence-based policymaking (EBPM)

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Chapter 8 by Smith and Haux focuses on when and how evidence is used in policy-making. They explore the idea of evidence-based policy-making (EBPM) and consider the absence of agreed definitions. They discuss popular models of the relationship between evidence and policy and theories of policy-making, as well as some of the key criticisms of these approaches. After this, they take a more practical focus to consider the issues that arose when the UK’s New Labour government (1997–2010) officially committed to taking an evidence-based approach to policy-making.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of Social Policy Evaluation
Editors	Bent Greve
Place of Publication	Cheltenham, Glos
Chapter	8
Pages	141-160
Number of pages	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785363245
Publication status	Published - 31 Mar 2017

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social policy
evaluation
evidence based decision making

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