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Variation in evidence use across policy sectors: the case of Brazil

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  • Kidjie Saguin
  • João V Guedes-Neto
  • Pedro Lucas Moura Palotti
  • Natália Massaco Koga
  • Flavio Lyrio Carneiro

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Evidence use across policy sectors is widely believed to vary as each sector espouses a specific and dominant pattern in how it sources evidence. This view privileges the idea that a “culture of evidence” serves as a norm that guides behavior in the entire sector. In this article, we seek to nuance the policy sectoral approach to understanding evidence use by analyzing the results of a large-N survey of federal employees in Brazil (n = 2,177). Our findings show a diverse set of cultures of evidence with a few sectors like Science and Technology demonstrating a strong likelihood for using scientific evidence with most sectors showing a mixed pattern of sourcing evidence. However, a majority of the surveyed civil servants show an “indistinct” pattern of evidence use who are likely to not use any sources of evidence.

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  • Kidjie Saguin & João V Guedes-Neto & Pedro Lucas Moura Palotti & Natália Massaco Koga & Flavio Lyrio Carneiro, 2024. "Variation in evidence use across policy sectors: the case of Brazil," Policy and Society, Darryl S. Jarvis and M. Ramesh, vol. 43(4), pages 521-555.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:polsoc:v:43:y:2024:i:4:p:521-555.
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