From research to practice: A survey of public administration scholars in Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract: This article reports on a survey of Canadian scholars of public administration that asked about the influence their academic research has had on the practice of public administration and some characteristics of their research. The scholars identified a wide range of publications as having influenced practitioners by having been read and discussed or by influencing policy, legislation or judicial decisions. Three‐quarters of the respondents had public‐sector experience early in their careers. The average age at which they did influential research was in their mid‐forties. They received research support for these projects from a wide range of sources, but the amounts were relatively modest. The article concludes with the implications of these findings for the design of a possible federal government program to enhance support for the Canadian academic community in public administration. Sommaire: Le présent article porte sur une enquête réalisée auprès de chercheurs en administration publique du Canada au sujet de l'influence qu'a joué leur recherche universitaire sur la pratique de l'administration publique, et de certaines caractéristiques de cette recherche. Les chercheurs ont mentionné tout un éventail de publications qui ont influencé les praticiens qui les avaient lues ou en avaient discuté ou qui ont influencé les décisions politiques, législatives ou judiciaires. Les trois quarts des personnes interrogées ont vécu une expérience dans le secteur public en début de carrière. C'est vers le milieu de la quarantaine que leur recherche a exercé le plus d'influence. Ils ont reçu pour ces projets un soutien d'une grande variété de sources, mais les montants étaient relativement modestes. L'article se termine sur les répercussions que ces résultats pourraient avoir sur la conception d'un programme éventuel du gouvernement fédéral pour accroître le soutien des universitaires canadiens dans le domaine de l'administration publique.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.012 | 0.063 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".