Bonargent, Alix (2024) Bridging the gap between research and policy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.
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This dissertation explores the intricate relationship between research and policy, with a particular emphasis on academic research in development economics. The first chapter presents the dataset, examining the relationship between academic performance and the policy impact of research projects. It also investigates the characteristics of research teams behind policy-relevant projects. The findings indicate that projects leading to observed policy changes are not less well-published and are often led by researchers from elite institutions. The second chapter employs a descriptive approach to investigate whether research projects conducted in collaboration between researchers and policymakers are more likely to yield changes in policy decisions. The findings show partnerships are a strongly associated with policy impact, but both the timing of partnership formation and the quality of these partnerships are influenced by the election cycle. Researchers from elite institutions stand out for their capacity to withstand political constraints; they can establish partnerships that consistently lead to enhanced evidence utilization throughout the cycle. For other researchers, the result supports the concept of a window of opportunity for partnership formation and policy impact, which opens early in the political term when policymakers are comparatively less constrained by political pressures. The final chapter analyzes the decision-making processes of scientific committees responsible for commissioning research projects in development economics. The results indicate that while academic and policy experts demonstrate some ability to predict future policy outcomes of research proposals, they have diverging views on what constitutes policy impact. Although committee members align in the way they weight the relative importance of academic merit and policy merit, these differing views result in diverging funding recommendations.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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| Additional Information: | © 2024 Alix Bonargent |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) Q Science > Q Science (General) |
| Sets: | Departments > Economics |
| Supervisor: | Bryan, Gharad and Bandiera, Oriana and Burgess, Robin |
| URI: | http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/4779 |
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