This article argues that in public health research, standard approaches to knowledge translation are based on (1) an invalid model of the relationship between research knowledge and policy and (2) an oversimplified concept of ‘knowledge’. Standard approaches tend to focus primarily on communicating research knowledge to policy makers in order to increase the impact of research on policy making....

Large group differences in political knowledge raise strong concerns about lasting inequities in U.S. politics. I argue such gaps emerge when factual questions operate unevenly across diverse populations, thereby inflating actual knowledge differences between groups. I illustrate this by revisiting the large knowledge deficit often observed among Latinos relative to Whites. Using a survey with ...

Consensus Builder is a vision for an internet application that can organize and facilitate political discussion involving large numbers of participants. Consensus Builder will invite people to speak about what they know and care about. To fully participate, speakers will need to engage in interpretive processes that yield ontological models of statements like those used for the Semantic Web. An...

In this paper we provide a political game where agents decide whether to become legislators or politicians. Legislators determine the political institutions constraining politicians’ behavior and politicians compete for gaining the power to make decisions about the level of the public good. We derive the following results: i) Political competition is a necessary but not a sufficient condition f...

Public policy is an art not a science. It gets made under conditions of incomplete information and constricted rationality. It is susceptible to the rhetoric and mythology of politics, to chauvinism and xenophobia, and the invocation of particular demons and poster children. However, to be done properly it must account for technological change and the economic and social implications of change....

certainly, methodology of political jurisprudence (feghe seyasi) is closely related to “ejtehad”( practicing religious jurisprudence) . so, methodologically, understanding characteristics of political jurisprudence , requires understanding ejtehad. and ejtehad ,in turn, requires understanding the relations of it with “language” and “action” .therefor, understanding the two relations, clears the...