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This Edited Book Provides A Hard-hitting And Deliberately Provocative Overview Of The Relationship Between Evidence, Policy And Practice, How Policy Is Implemented And How Research Can And Should Influence The Policy Process. Ten Steps For Creating Receptive Organisational Contexts -- Conclusion -- 8 Conclusion -- Index. Conclusion -- 6 From Evidence-based To Knowledge-based Policy And Practice -- Cases For Change -- Different Approaches To 'what Works' -- Towards 'knowledge-based Practice' -- Putting It Into Practice -- A Typology Of Evidence For Decision Making? -- A 'due Diligence' Approach (aka 'quick And Dirty') -- Conclusion -- 7 Receptive Contexts And The Role Of Knowledge Management In Evidence-based Practice -- Introduction -- Why Focus On Context? -- Receptive Organisational Contexts -- Knowledge Management: Key Concepts -- Knowledge Management: Strategies. Policy Transfer -- From Transfer To Translation -- Individualised Budgets: Explaining Policy Migration -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- 4 Policy Making Through A Rhetorical Lens -- Different Ways Of Seeing Policy Making -- The Value Of Rhetorical Analysis -- Rhetoric Confronts Uncertainty And Ethical Dilemmas In Policy Making -- Arguments Are Constructed For Particular Audiences -- Rhetoric Extends Our Understanding Of Rationality -- Conclusion -- 5 Implementing Policy -- A Brief History Of Policy Implementation -- Policy Implementation Or Policy Change? -- Making Sense Of Implementation. List Of Figures, Tables And Boxes -- Notes On Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Tensions Between Policy And Evidence -- How Does Evidence Influence Policy (if At All)? -- Our Aims And Approach -- 2 The Policy Process -- Introduction -- The Policy Process -- Evaluation And The Policy Process -- Using Evidence -- Evidence-based Policy Making -- Defining Ebpm -- Hierarchies Of Evidence -- Hierarchies Of Relevance -- Evidence-informed Policy Or Evidence-legitimised Policy? -- Conclusion -- 3 From Policy Transfer To Policy Tran