Measuring the Use of Knowledge in Policy Development

Witting, Antje

Measuring the Use of Knowledge in Policy Development

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2015

Publication type

Journal article

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Published

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Central European Journal of Public Policy : CEJPP ; 9 (2015), 2. - pp. 54-71. - eISSN 1802-4866

Abstract

Public hearings are frequently used on all levels of government to systematically collect and analyze information in the early stages of legislative policymaking. The methods currently employed measure knowledge utilization in this context by means of citation analysis of edited articles and/or reports that summarize the information shared at these meetings. By combining citation analysis and social network analysis, this article develops a methodology that can be used to capture citations in transcripts of public hearings that precede these reports. In order to demonstrate its strengths and weaknesses, the method is utilized to analyze the 2009 hearings that informed the 2010 House of Commons Transport Committee report on developing the capacity of major roads in the United Kingdom to meet the country’s strategic transport needs. The research shows a good degree of consistency between two independent coders who employed this method to distinguish citations from non-citations and classify the data. It is concluded that the method can be utilized to reliably measure knowledge utilization at public hearings, and that it can be employed in conjunction with research that focuses on measuring citations in memos, briefings, articles or reports integrating some of the evidence given at these meetings.

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320 Politics

Keywords

knowledge utilization, content analysis, citation analysis, policy analysis

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WITTING, Antje, 2015. Measuring the Use of Knowledge in Policy Development. In: Central European Journal of Public Policy : CEJPP. 9(2), pp. 54-71. eISSN 1802-4866

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@article{Witting2015Measu-32909,
  year={2015},
  title={Measuring the Use of Knowledge in Policy Development},
  url={http://www.cejpp.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/193},
  number={2},
  volume={9},
  journal={Central European Journal of Public Policy : CEJPP},
  pages={54--71},
  author={Witting, Antje}
}

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http://www.cejpp.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/193

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