Whose evidence base? the dynamic effects of ownership, receptivity and values on collaborative evidence-informed policy making1

Evidence and Policy

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 511-530

  Shine, Kasey Treadwell ^a   Bartley, Brendan ^b  

^a Combat Poverty Agency ^*  (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Collaborative practices; Complexity theory; Evidence informed policy making

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873876786     PISSN: 17442648     EISSN: 17442656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/174426411X603489     Document Type: Article

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