Policy advice as policy work: a conceptual framework for multi-level analysis

Political advisers in Portugal: Partisanship and loyalty in policy processes

“…All appointments to positions in ministerial offices that were approved and published in the Official Gazette were content analysed. Following Veselý (), we considered as political advisers all appointments of individuals who performed policy work to aid ministers’ decision‐making by analysing policy problems and proposing solutions. Technical and administrative support were not considered to be political advisers.…”

Capacidades Analíticas no Processo de Produção de Políticas Públicas: Quais Fontes de Evidências Utilizam o Serviço Civil da Administração Pública Federal?

“…No Brasil, além disso, o tipo e o nível de recorrência às fontes também vêm de outras que não são convencionalmente reconhecidas como as que são produzidas no âmbito acadêmico. Conforme foi achado, a heterogeneidade do uso de diferentes fontes de informação para atuar na política pública pode estar relacionada ao nível de instrução dos burocratas, da posição que esses atores tomam na hierarquia burocrática, da área de política pública na qual se encontram, do tipo de função que exercem e do órgão no qual estão inseridos, que também pode estar relacionado a uma percepção do que eles entendem por ser evidência e de onde ela deveria partir (Montuschi, 2009;Saguin et al, 2018;Veselý, 2017;Wellstead et al, 2009).…”

Academic research and engagement with the Canadian public service: Insights from three surveys

“…Multiple communities are engaged in the policy‐making ecosystem and in the production, distribution and use of knowledge within it. These communities differ in terms of values, internal logics and structures (Veselý ), and across jurisdictions (Craft and Halligan ). Historically, relationships among these actors were originally studied through locational models where influence depended on whether they produced, consumed or brokered advice and knowledge (Clark and Jones ; Howlett ; Cappe ).…”

“…Public policy and decision‐making literatures have had a long engagement with the provision, distribution, and use of knowledge (Jennings and Hall ; Howlett and Newman ; Young ). Over the past decades the analysis of these patterns has increasingly become more sophisticated (Veselý ; Craft and Halligan ; Newman, Cherney and Head ; Howlett, Wellstead and Craft ) and we give a brief account of this trajectory below. Despite the richness of the literature, the specific role of academics in the provision of policy advice and research and the attitudes of the two communities to each other have been less studied.…”