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Freeing Bureaucrats to Succeed

UCL Uncovering Politics

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Is There a Tension Between Academics and Academics?

Academics tend to pursue questions where they can do a really nice piece of research that will get them into a top journal. That'sa kind of the prestige way of proceeding as an academic. But those aren't necessarily the questions that are most useful for people on the ground, that will allow them to do a better job. So there's a kind of tension between the two separate tracts that we have going on in the world here,. one of the practitioners working in their world, desperate to get some evidence for things, and the other, the academics working in theirworld.

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