From science to politics: commissioned reports and their political translation into White Papers

Steiner‐Khamsi, Gita; Karseth, Berit; Baek, Chanwoong

doi:10.1080/02680939.2019.1656289

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“…However, in light of earlier studies (e.g. Alasuutari and Rasimus, 2009; Alasuutari et al, 2016; Pettersson et al, 2017; Steiner-Khamsi et al, 2020) it is well known that such recommendations are viable resources in national political rhetoric; they may legitimate ideas already existing in the minds of the domestic decision-makers, yet when packaged by an organization perceived as an authority, they lend more authority to efforts to convince others of what is deemed a desirable or acceptable way of organizing domestic policies. As knowledge-based policy recommendations are deemed viable assets in policymaking, it may be that nation-states and their governments actively seek to bring these recommendations onto IGOs’ agendas.…”

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International organizations establishing their scientific authority: Periodizing the legitimation of policy advice by the OECD

Rautalin

Syväterä

Vento

2020

International Sociology

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This article contributes to the periodization of ‘scientization’ by scrutinizing how international organizations (IOs) have evolved into such scientific authorities as many of them are today. The authors examine the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and its Economic Surveys during the period 1965–2015. The study sheds light on how scientific authority manifests in IOs’ reporting and policy recommendations directed at national governments. First, the analysis scrutinizes how science figures rhetorically in reports. Secondly, it focuses on policy recommendations and their connection to the scientific content of these reports. The results show that although the reports were portrayed as ‘scientific’ already in the 1960s, in the 2000s the reporting clearly shifted from the language of economics towards more popularized consulting language. The authors argue that these changes are due to the OECD’s reactions to transformations in the wider institutional environment and occasioned by its endeavours to appear as a significant actor in knowledge-based policymaking.

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International organizations establishing their scientific authority: Periodizing the legitimation of policy advice by the OECD

Rautalin

Syväterä

Vento

2020

International Sociology

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“…The levels of analysis will be linked to themes emerging in professional accreditation. Levels of analysis are carried out at the policy level (Steiner-Khamsi et al, 2020) before considering the COPs and individual practitioner instructions to the double. The assumption is that what happens in practice should be translated into a theoretical body of knowledge to enhance business rescue practices.…”

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Methodological Considerations in the Professional Accreditation Research

Ayaya

Pretorius

2021

Sage Open

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This essay paper provides methodological considerations for research on turnaround management (business rescue) practitioner (BRP) accreditation. The article responds to recent BRP licensing debates and the need to enhance BRP capabilities through continuing professional development (CPD). We assess existing data collection procedures using the practice theory and demonstrate sequenced integrated data collection procedures (IDCPs) to study BRPs’ professional accreditation frameworks. We illustrate IDCPs using a research design for “how BRPs should be accredited by their professional bodies (PBs) before obtaining a practice license”. The proposed IDCPs call for the purposeful interpretation of legislative instruments governing BRP work and other multiple-party data collection techniques. The paper lays out the problems associated with using questionnaire surveys and semi-structured interviews to document BRP practices and the required professional capabilities. We propose a research design to illustrate the application of the IDCPs in a multiple PB occupation.

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“…The plethora of knowledge-publishing stakeholders within the knowledge-field of 'social educators in schools' thus speaks of a simultaneous scientification of educational politics and politicisation of educational sciences. On the one hand, the politically financed and incentivised knowledgeproduction is part of the scientification of educational politics (Maasen & Weingart, 2005;Khamsi et al, 2020). That is, the processes through which educational politics produce and use science as base for political decision-making and negotiation.…”

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What “what we know” does – a posthuman review methodology

Sauzet¹

2021

RERM

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This article unfolds a case, an argument and methodology for a posthuman approach for doing reviews from the vantage point of knowledge-fields where educational politics and knowledge production are entangled. As case, the article draws on a review on the topic of ‘social educators in schools’, following a reform of the public school in Denmark. From this review, an analytical strategy for performing ‘extendings’, is developed. ‘Extendings’ are defined as the analytical performance of co-existing, contradictory, statements concerning the same object of knowledge, within and across publications. ‘Extendings’ are proposed as an empirically embedded concept, as posthuman reviewing is considered performative of what particular knowledge-political fields do to their objects of knowledge. A posthuman, performative review methodology, then, is suggested to afford a change in knowledge-claims. The change involves a move away from representations of “what we know”, towards analytical performances of what “what we know does” to educational practice.

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From science to politics: commissioned reports and their political translation into White Papers

Cited by 43 publications

References 52 publications

International organizations establishing their scientific authority: Periodizing the legitimation of policy advice by the OECD

International organizations establishing their scientific authority: Periodizing the legitimation of policy advice by the OECD

Methodological Considerations in the Professional Accreditation Research

What “what we know” does – a posthuman review methodology

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