Diana Tussie
Hotei Publishing
Rs 5398
Pp 352
ISBN: 9004172785
Hardcover
Blurb
The rising era of post-paradigmatic wars in the field of international trade has narrowed ideological differences making policy more porous to independent research. But whose ideas matter? When? And how do actors make them matter? Why are some of the ideas that circulate in the research-policy arenas picked up and acted on, while others are ignored and disappear?' Is demand-driven research most likely to effectively influence policy? The episodes of trade policy change and negotiations included in this volume show the growing relevance of commissioned research in increasingly contested settings designed from the beginning to support a particular cause- research not as independent truth waiting to be "hooked," but as instrumental and supportive to policy decisions taken on other grounds.
Review
Relating policies to research Hindu
Policy makers and academics relate to each other in complex ways, and sometimes they do not relate at all, says Diana Tussie in ‘The Politics of Trade: The role of research in trade policy and negotiation’ (www.idrc.ca). There have always been those in policy circles who are aloof to the products of research and who go about their business with only some evidence gathering along the way in a mostly do-it-yourself fashion, she observes.
“By the same token there have always been academics quite content in their ivory towers, working in priest-like fashion at their intellectual constructions regardless of the world beyond or the policy implications of their research.” Thankfully, however, the once-pervasive segregation between policy and research is now fast retreating, as the ideological cleavages and paradigm wars of yesteryear began to subside and trade liberalisation has become enshrined as a development model in itself, the author notes.
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