TY - JOUR
T1 - Policy analysis in government and academia
T2 - Two cultures
AU - Glied, Sherry
PY - 2018/6/1
Y1 - 2018/6/1
N2 - Despite concerns that the health policy academy is divorced from policy making, the articles in this special issue generally suggest that academic policy research played important roles in the development, implementation, and subsequent defense of the Affordable Care Act. One reason for this relative success was the presence of many "embedded academics"-researchers who took leaves from universities to spend time working for the Obama administration or Congress. Embedded academics can help bridge the wide gap between the institutional cultures of the academy and of government and can thus act as translators of academic research for policy-making purposes. This essay describes how the cultures of the academy and of government policy research differ and suggests ways to use those cultural differences to improve knowledge translation.
AB - Despite concerns that the health policy academy is divorced from policy making, the articles in this special issue generally suggest that academic policy research played important roles in the development, implementation, and subsequent defense of the Affordable Care Act. One reason for this relative success was the presence of many "embedded academics"-researchers who took leaves from universities to spend time working for the Obama administration or Congress. Embedded academics can help bridge the wide gap between the institutional cultures of the academy and of government and can thus act as translators of academic research for policy-making purposes. This essay describes how the cultures of the academy and of government policy research differ and suggests ways to use those cultural differences to improve knowledge translation.
KW - Culture
KW - Health policy
KW - Knowledge translation
KW - Policy making
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U2 - 10.1215/03616878-4366231
DO - 10.1215/03616878-4366231
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:85048330811
SN - 0361-6878
VL - 43
SP - 537
EP - 542
JO - Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
JF - Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
IS - 3
ER -