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dc.contributor.authorUMBACH, Gaby
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-18T13:17:37Z
dc.date.available2020-12-18T13:17:37Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationStatistical journal of the IAOS, 2020, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 1043-1055en
dc.identifier.issn1874-7655
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/69341
dc.description.abstractThis article offers reflections on the use of data as evidence in 21st century policy-making. It discusses the concept of evidence-informed policy-making (EIPM) as well as the governance and knowledge effects of data as evidence. With this focus, it interlinks the analysis of statistics and politics. The paper first introduces the concept of EIPM and the impact of evidence use. Here it focusses on science and knowledge as resources in policy-making, on the institutionalisation of science advice and on the translation of information and knowledge into evidence. The second part of the article reflects on data as evidence. This part concentrates on abstract and concrete functions of data as governance tools in policy-making, on data as a robust form of evidence and on the effects of data on knowledge and governance. The third part highlights challenges for data as evidence in policy-making, among them, politicisation, transparency, and diversity as well as objectivity and contestation. Finally, the last part draws conclusions on the production and use of data as evidence in EIPM. Throughout the second part of the reflections, reference is made to Walter Radermacher’s 2019 matrix of actors and activities related to data, facts, and policy published in this journal.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherIOS Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofStatistical journal of the IAOSen
dc.titleOf numbers, narratives and challenges : data as evidence in 21st century policy-makingen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.3233/SJI-200735
dc.identifier.volume36en
dc.identifier.startpage1043en
dc.identifier.endpage1055en
dc.identifier.issue4en


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