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Science and politics are complicatedly related. Here, we will analyse the relationship of social sciences and politics. We will confine ourselves to those cases where science is used to help politics to realise its goals. Adopting from Popper (1935) and Campbell (1969), we will describe a normative model of evidence based policies: PETER – a model of mutual influences and dependencies of Politics, Evidence, Treatment, Evaluation, and Responsibility. The chapter ends with a sketch on the needed competencies to make the model work – the model PETER-S.
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Wagner, U. et al. (2012). Politics, evidence, treatment, evaluation, responsibility – The models PETER and PETER-S. In: Salzborn, S., Davidov, E., Reinecke, J. (eds) Methods, Theories, and Empirical Applications in the Social Sciences. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-18898-0_2
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