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Innovation in training policy analysts: an example of a game-based workshop

Author(s): Karol Olejniczak, Dominika Wojtowicz
Subject(s): Politics, Public Administration, Public Law
Published by: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
Keywords: public policy; management; evidence-based policy

Summary/Abstract: Despite the plethora of conducted research and analyses, their actual use in the design and implementation of public policies is quite limited. The latest research indicates that an effective strategy to strengthen the use of public policy research results in practice is knowledge brokering. The article demonstrates the use of an educational innovation enabling knowledge brokering teaching through practice - by means of a simulation game-based workshop. The past experience connected with the use of "Knowledge 176 Karol Olejniczak, Dominika Wojtowicz Studia z Polityki Publicznej Brokers" game to teach public sector professionals in Poland, the United States and Canada has confirmed that the game helps to: (1) understand the role of the public policy research and analysis results, (2) master the six key skills of knowledge brokers and (3) understand the broker's limitations in influencing the decision-making process. Public administration institutions can make use of "Knowledge Brokers" for the practical training of their analytical personnel and raising its organizational capacity to carry out public policies based on evidence.

  • Issue Year: 11/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 175-189
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English, Polish