Lawmakers' use of scientific evidence can be improved.
Congress
evidence-based policymaking
randomized controlled trial
Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
ISSN: 1091-6490
Titre abrégé: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 7505876
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
02 03 2021
02 03 2021
Historique:
entrez:
17
2
2021
pubmed:
18
2
2021
medline:
10
8
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Core to the goal of scientific exploration is the opportunity to guide future decision-making. Yet, elected officials often miss opportunities to use science in their policymaking. This work reports on an experiment with the US Congress-evaluating the effects of a randomized, dual-population (i.e., researchers and congressional offices) outreach model for supporting legislative use of research evidence regarding child and family policy issues. In this experiment, we found that congressional offices randomized to the intervention reported greater value of research for understanding issues than the control group following implementation. More research use was also observed in legislation introduced by the intervention group. Further, we found that researchers randomized to the intervention advanced their own policy knowledge and engagement as well as reported benefits for their research following implementation.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33593938
pii: 2012955118
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2012955118
pmc: PMC7936366
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Subventions
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : P50 HD089922
Pays : United States
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare no competing interest.
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