| Literature DB >> 33593938 |
D Max Crowley1, J Taylor Scott2, Elizabeth C Long2, Lawrie Green2, Azaliah Israel2, Lauren Supplee3, Elizabeth Jordan3, Kathryn Oliver4, Shannon Guillot-Wright5,6, Brittany Gay7, Rachel Storace2, Naomi Torres-Mackie8, Yolanda Murphy2, Sandra Donnay9, Jenna Reardanz10, Rebecca Smith11, Kristina McGuire11, Elizabeth Baker12, Ana Antonopoulos13, Mary McCauley2, Cagla Giray2.
Abstract
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.Entities:
Keywords: Congress; evidence-based policymaking; randomized controlled trial
Year: 2021 PMID： 33593938 PMCID： PMC7936366 DOI： 10.1073/pnas.2012955118
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN： 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205