Evidence-based policy insists on describing,
compiling and analyzing past experience – what
has happened, with which resources, to whom, with
which outcome – but it does so, necessarily, by
selecting and narrowing the basis of what is
considered to be evidence. Mainly it is what can
be counted and, therefore, what can be measured
and managed. In throwing its evidence-based net
as widely as possible, this kind of policy
insists that everything can be compared, while
carefully selecting the units of
comparison. Standardization is a practice which
strips away local contingencies and
peculiarities. The results are considered more objective.”
Helga Nowotny, How Many Policy Rooms are There?,
Science, Technology, and Human Values, 32:4, July:2007, p 481
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