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Article 18: political language, media and the shrinking space for evidence in Italy

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  Italians like to talk about politics. Political talk shows have been popular but they seem to have reached a saturation point. Too many of them. In the morning. Later afternoon. Evening. Some shows are better than others but they also start to all look alike. The same politicians and journalists as guests. Not always […]

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The value of evidence and the power of values in the referendum on the independence of Scotland.

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Today is the day. 4.3 million residents in Scotland and aged 16 or over have the right to cast their ballot to answer a straight forward question with big implications: ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?.’ A simple majority is required by the Yes campaign to win the referendum and leave the United Kingdom after

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A couple of Stories of Change on the use of knowledge and research evidence in policy making

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Just published with my colleagues Endah Purnawati and Maesy Angelina a couple of Stories of Change on the use of knowledge and research evidence in policy decision-making. Pls follow the links. Working politically. A story of change on the contribution of research-evidence on the new Village Law in Indonesia On December 18th 2013, the Indonesian House

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On the shore of a Finnish lake and the gap between researchers and policy makers

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Finland is a country of lakes. There are 187,888 of them but the exhibition (On the Shore of the Lake Tuusula Artist Community) I visited with my daughter during the holidays at the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki was about one of them: Lake Tuusula. Why Lake Tuusula? Because at Lake Tuusula, which is 40km

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\’If not us, then who?\’ Climate change and the devastation left by typhoons Haiyan in the Philippines

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Typhoon Hayian was the 25th typhoon that hit the Philippines this year. I lived in the city of Dumaguete in the Philippines for four years and left last May. My family is still there and we were talking on Skype about the typhoon that was approaching the Filipino coast. Dumaguete lies just a couple of

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