@article{Daviter2017,
  author    = {Daviter, Falk},
  title     = {Policy analysis in the face of complexity},
  series = {Public policy and administration},
  volume    = {34},
  journal   = {Public policy and administration},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Sage Publ.},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {0952-0767},
  doi       = {10.1177/0952076717733325},
  pages     = {21},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {An ever-increasing number of policy problems have come to be interpreted as representing a particular type of intractable, ill-structured or wicked policy problem. Much of this debate is concerned with the challenges wicked problems pose for program management rather than policy analysis. This article, in contrast, argues that the key challenge in addressing this type of policy problems is in fact analytical. Wicked policy problems are difficult to identify and interpret. The knowledge base for analysing wicked policy problem is typically fragmented and contested. Available evidence is incomplete, inconclusive and incommensurable. In this situation, the evidentiary and the interpretative elements of policy analysis become increasingly indistinguishable and inseparably intertwined. The article reveals the problems this poses for policy analysis and explores the extent to which the consolidation, consensualization and contestation of evidence in policy analysis offer alternative procedural paths to resolve these problems.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{Daviter2015,
  author    = {Daviter, Falk},
  title     = {The political use of knowledge in the policy process},
  series = {Policy sciences : integrating knowledge and practice to advance human dignity},
  volume    = {48},
  journal   = {Policy sciences : integrating knowledge and practice to advance human dignity},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Dordrecht},
  issn      = {0032-2687},
  doi       = {10.1007/s11077-015-9232-y},
  pages     = {491 -- 505},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {The role of knowledge in the policy process remains a central theoretical puzzle in policy analysis and political science. This article argues that an important yet missing piece of this puzzle is the systematic exploration of the political use of policy knowledge. While much of the recent debate has focused on the question of how the substantive use of knowledge can improve the quality of policy choices, our understanding of the political use of knowledge and its effects in the policy process has remained deficient in key respects. A revised conceptualization of the political use of knowledge is introduced that emphasizes how conflicting knowledge can be used to contest given structures of policy authority. This allows the analysis to differentiate between knowledge creep and knowledge shifts as two distinct types of knowledge effects in the policy process. While knowledge creep is associated with incremental policy change within existing policy structures, knowledge shifts are linked to more fundamental policy change in situations when the structures of policy authority undergo some level of transformation. The article concludes by identifying characteristics of the administrative structure of policy systems or sectors that make knowledge shifts more or less likely.},
  language  = {en}
}