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Out of the ivory tower: an explanation of the policy advisory roles of political scientists in Europe

dc.contributor.coauthorJungblut, Jens
dc.contributor.coauthorGouglas, Athanassios
dc.contributor.coauthorKatz, Gabriel
dc.contributor.coauthorBandola-Gill, Justyna
dc.contributor.coauthorBrans, Marleen
dc.contributor.coauthorTimmermans, Arco
dc.contributor.coauthorAnderson, Alexandra
dc.contributor.coauthorAubin, David
dc.contributor.coauthorBino, Blerjana
dc.contributor.coauthorBleiklie, Ivar
dc.contributor.coauthorBlum, Sonja
dc.contributor.coauthorBolukbasi, H. Tolga
dc.contributor.coauthorFlinders, Matthew
dc.contributor.coauthorFobe, Ellen
dc.contributor.coauthorGalanti, Maria Tullia
dc.contributor.coauthorKallestrup, Morten
dc.contributor.coauthorMichelsen, Svein
dc.contributor.coauthorMolnar, Gabor Tamas
dc.contributor.coauthorPattyn, Valerie
dc.contributor.coauthorPritoni, Andrea
dc.contributor.coauthorReal-Dato, Jose
dc.contributor.coauthorSquevin, Pierre
dc.contributor.coauthorXhindi, Nevila
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of International Relations
dc.contributor.kuauthorBakır, Caner
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Administrative Sciences and Economics
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-19T10:28:54Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe relevance and impact of political scientists' professional activities outside of universities has become the focus of public attention, partly due to growing expectations that research should help address society's grand challenges. One type of such activity is policy advising. However, little attention has been devoted to understanding the extent and type of policy advising activities political scientists engage in. This paper addresses this gap by adopting a classification that distinguishes four ideal types of policy advisors representing differing degrees of engagement. We test this classification by calculating a multi-level latent class model to estimate key factors explaining the prevalence of each type based on an original dataset obtained from a survey of political scientists across 39 European countries. Our results challenge the wisdom that political scientists are sitting in an "ivory tower": the vast majority (80%) of political scientists in Europe are active policy advisers, with most of them providing not only expert guidance but also normative assessments.
dc.description.indexedbyWOS
dc.description.indexedbyScopus
dc.description.issue3
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.volume23
dc.identifier.doi10.1057/s41304-023-00440-x
dc.identifier.eissn1682-0983
dc.identifier.issn1680-4333
dc.identifier.quartileQ2
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85166326514
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-023-00440-x
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/25784
dc.identifier.wos1041251200002
dc.keywordsEuropean political science
dc.keywordsPolicy advisors
dc.keywordsLatent class analysis
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillan Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean Political Science
dc.subjectPolitical Science
dc.titleOut of the ivory tower: an explanation of the policy advisory roles of political scientists in Europe
dc.typeJournal Article
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