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ROUNDTABLE

ACADEMIC AND PRACTITIONERS, OPPOSED OR COMPLIMENTARY?

This session explored the boundaries and connections between public policy as an object of scientific research and public policy as an activity. Academics study policies to support policymakers, while practitioners need scientific support to know evidence about how things are done or should be done. And yet, while evidence-based-policy should have come to an age, the two realms do not often collaborate and, rather, risk being insulated from each other. This is actually an old issue: "there is nothing a government hates more than being well informed" (J.M. Keynes, 1937). Prominent experts from both academic and policymaking fields are going to explore mutual understandings – and misunderstandings – between research and practice, on both epistemological and pragmatic dimensions.

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MODERATOR:

Alessandro Colombo, General Director at Éupolis Lombardia

Speakers

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Robert Hoppe

Emeritus Professor of Policy and Knowledge

University of Twente

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Giuseppe Guzzeti

President of Cariplo Foundation

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Fabrizio Barca

Minister of Territorial Cohesion of Italy

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Leslie Pal

Chancellor's Professor

Hamad Bin Khalifa University

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Raffaele Cattaneo

President of the Lombardy Region Council

 
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