@inbook{b854dcec93bf403781f2d89b7567d0f6,
title = "Research and Knowledge in Public Policy Making",
abstract = "The raw material for sound and evidence-based public policy is knowledge. Relevant knowledge comes from research. Thus, research and knowledge are very essential for public policymaking, yet it is often argued that researchers as knowledge producers and policymakers often travel in parallel solitudes, locked in their silos, and hardly talk to each other. What is the relationship between research knowledge and public policy in Ghana and other African countries? In what ways are researchers able to influence policymakers? How relevant is research to evidence-based policymaking? What makes for a positive or negative relationship between researchers and policymakers? What channels exist for researchers and policy to interact and share ideas? This chapter analyses the relationship between policymakers and researchers in Ghana by exploring their respective cultural worlds, examining their orientations and perspectives of themselves and of each other and the extent to which those understandings affect the use of knowledge in the policy process.",
keywords = "Epistemic community, Evidence-based, Knowledge, Public policy, Researchers",
author = "James Dzisah and Michael Kpessa-Whyte",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.",
year = "2024",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-33005-6_9",
language = "English",
series = "International Series on Public Policy",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "147--160",
booktitle = "International Series on Public Policy",
}