立法者对科学证据的使用可以得到改善。
Lawmakers' use of scientific evidence can be improved.
机构信息
Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802;
Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.
出版信息
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Mar 2;118(9). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2012955118.
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.
科学探索的核心目标是有机会指导未来的决策。然而，政府官员往往错失了在决策中利用科学的机会。本工作报告了一项针对美国国会的实验——评估一种随机的、双重人群（即研究人员和国会办公室）外展模式的效果，该模式旨在支持立法者使用关于儿童和家庭政策问题的研究证据。在这项实验中，我们发现，与对照组相比，随机分配到干预组的国会办公室在实施后对研究在理解问题方面的价值的评价更高。干预组提出的立法中也观察到了更多的研究使用。此外，我们发现，随机分配到干预组的研究人员在实施后推进了他们自己的政策知识和参与度，并报告了对他们研究的好处。
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