TY - JOUR
T1 - Reports of practitioners’ use of public affairs faculty published research
AU - Bozeman, Barry
AU - Bretschneider, Stuart
AU - Lindsay, Spencer
AU - Nelson, John P.
AU - Didier, Nicolas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Society for Research into Higher Education.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Using a unique dataset built around published papers in top quality public policy, public administration and program evaluation journals, we find that 29.7% of respondent authors indicate that the knowledge from their articles was used by policymakers or public administrators. These data are used to test for different patterns of use for policy vs management knowledge. Findings suggest that journal quality positively affects policy use but negatively affects management use and that topics suggested by practitioners affect management use but not policy use. The researchers’ degree of motivation to have their work used is important in both types of knowledge use. Overall, the results suggest there may be greater spillovers to practical use derived from standard academic publishing pursuits than generally believed.
AB - Using a unique dataset built around published papers in top quality public policy, public administration and program evaluation journals, we find that 29.7% of respondent authors indicate that the knowledge from their articles was used by policymakers or public administrators. These data are used to test for different patterns of use for policy vs management knowledge. Findings suggest that journal quality positively affects policy use but negatively affects management use and that topics suggested by practitioners affect management use but not policy use. The researchers’ degree of motivation to have their work used is important in both types of knowledge use. Overall, the results suggest there may be greater spillovers to practical use derived from standard academic publishing pursuits than generally believed.
KW - Knowledge utilization
KW - public affairs practitioners
KW - public affairs research
KW - research authors
KW - research use
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U2 - 10.1080/03075079.2023.2184787
DO - 10.1080/03075079.2023.2184787
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85150384133
SN - 0307-5079
VL - 48
SP - 719
EP - 732
JO - Studies in Higher Education
JF - Studies in Higher Education
IS - 5
ER -