I think this is a good idea, but would benefit greatly from narrowing the scope greatly, and finding what answer are already known before brainstorming what to investigate. Given that, I think you’d benefit from some of the basic works on policy analysis, rather than policy engagement, to see what is already understood. I’ll specifically point to Bardach’s A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving as a good place to start, followed by Weimar and Vining’s book.
Thanks David! Appreciate you having a look and for the resources.
Definitely agree, the scope will end up being much narrower. We wanted to keep this initial stage really broad—hoping to capture as many interesting and useful questions as possible. Then next step we’re going to whittle it down to the highest priority questions, essentially those that would be valuable for the field to have insights into but that haven’t yet been addressed by existing literature or work. Hope to get your thoughts at that stage as well!
Sounds great—and my guess is that lots of the most valuable work will be in “how can we use technique X for EA” for a variety of specific tools, rather than developing new methods, and will require deep dives into specifics.
I think this is a good idea, but would benefit greatly from narrowing the scope greatly, and finding what answer are already known before brainstorming what to investigate. Given that, I think you’d benefit from some of the basic works on policy analysis, rather than policy engagement, to see what is already understood. I’ll specifically point to Bardach’s A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving as a good place to start, followed by Weimar and Vining’s book.
Thanks David! Appreciate you having a look and for the resources.
Definitely agree, the scope will end up being much narrower. We wanted to keep this initial stage really broad—hoping to capture as many interesting and useful questions as possible. Then next step we’re going to whittle it down to the highest priority questions, essentially those that would be valuable for the field to have insights into but that haven’t yet been addressed by existing literature or work. Hope to get your thoughts at that stage as well!
Sounds great—and my guess is that lots of the most valuable work will be in “how can we use technique X for EA” for a variety of specific tools, rather than developing new methods, and will require deep dives into specifics.