How Knowledge Brokers Shape the Evidence-Based Policy Landscape

Rubin, Hannah and Schneider, Mike D. and Heesen, Remco and Bortolus, Alejandro and Chukwu, Emelda E. and Hewitt, Chad L. and Kaufer, Ricardo and Mitova, Veli and Schwenkenbecher, Anne and Schwindt, Evangelina and Sogbanmu, Temitope O. and Slanickova, Helena and Woolaston, Katie (2025) How Knowledge Brokers Shape the Evidence-Based Policy Landscape. [Preprint]

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Knowledge brokers, usually conceptualized as passive intermediaries between scientists and policymakers in evidence-based policymaking, are understudied in philosophy of science. Here, we challenge that usual conceptualization. As agents in their own right, knowledge brokers have their own goals and incentives, which complicate the effects of their presence at the science-policy interface. We illustrate this in an agent-based model and suggest several avenues for further exploration of the role of knowledge brokers in evidence-based policy.

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Creators	Email	ORCID
Rubin, Hannah	hannahmrubin@gmail.com
Schneider, Mike D.	schneidermd@missouri.edu	0000-0002-3303-3664
Heesen, Remco	r.heesen@lse.ac.uk	0000-0003-3823-944X
Bortolus, Alejandro		0000-0003-3035-315X
Chukwu, Emelda E.		0000-0002-3110-1678
Hewitt, Chad L.		0000-0002-6859-6512
Kaufer, Ricardo
Mitova, Veli		0000-0002-4181-8170
Schwenkenbecher, Anne		0000-0003-2207-3043
Schwindt, Evangelina		0000-0001-6693-9828
Sogbanmu, Temitope O.		0000-0002-8913-267X
Slanickova, Helena		0009-0003-5557-9654
Woolaston, Katie		0000-0001-7652-9347