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Evidence-Framed Policy-Making:
Production of Knowledge and the Europeanization
of National Drug Policy
Publication . Standring, Adam John; Moury, Catherine
Evidence-based policymaking has become one of the defining concepts of contemporary European policymaking. In its ideal form it is often promoted as a means of ensuring public policy is delivered more efficiently and effectively by more closely integrating science and research in the policy process. From a more critical perspective, however, EBP serves to obscure the politics inherent in any public policy decision, privileging certain values, practices and actors over others. Indeed, the very legitimacy of EBP within a democratic system – in which agency of elected officials is constrained by unelected experts – lies with the articulation and valorization of the supposed objectivity of evidence.
Drug policy is a particularly pertinent case in point. Not only has the development of a distinctive European approach to drug policy been promoted by the EU – one based on a balanced approach in which evidence takes priority over ideology – but the governance framework at the European level is heavily weighted towards to the gathering of data and evidence which favours a public health approach. The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is a focal point for national drug observatories and serves a dual purpose – in both being a promoter and producer of drug evidence.
The first chapter looks at the concept of depoliticization, its impact in contemporary modes of governance and its relation to notions of expertise and objectivity. The second chapter provides a historical account of evidence-based policymaking and its political and policy effects. The third chapter analyses developments in governance particular to European integration and provides an account of the development of a distinctly European drug policy. The fourth chapter tackles the role and functioning of the EMCDDA and its place in drug policy as an advocate for evidence-based policymaking. The concluding chapter brings the arguments together and provides examples of the constraints inherent to EBP.
Accountability in Post-Crisis Politics
Publication . de Giorgi, Elisabetta; Branco, Rui; Moury, Catherine; Standring, Adam; Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais (IPRI); Departamento de Estudos Políticos (DEPo)
This project aims to shed light on the changes in political decision-making processes across Europe in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Crisis responses have challenged traditional parliamentary-democratic ideals such as accountability, representation and deliberation. As a result, taking a multi-disciplinary and comparative perspective, this project seeks to address the concentration of power, looking particularly at locations (arenas), processes (institutional and discursive) and long-term impact.
Depoliticising austerity
Publication . Standring, Adam; Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais (IPRI); Policy Press
The relationship between the Euro crisis and austerity policies is often understood in terms of broadly deterministic explanations centred around economic imperatives and, in the case of bailed out countries, the conditionality of international lenders. Applying a multi-lens framework of depoliticisation to the case of Portugal between 2011 and 2015, this article instead refocuses analysis on the discourse employed by national politicians, in their construction of crisis narratives, to build the political authority to pass reforms. The Portuguese case is particularly effective at demonstrating how depoliticisation, 'relocates politics and the political rather than annihilating it'.
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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SFRH
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SFRH/BD/86762/2012