Help the State to think? On the dynamics of interaction between social research and politics
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The discussion about the contributions that social knowledge makes to the public policy decision- making process is a core issue in the problematization of the science-State and knowledge-politics relationship. The conceptualization of the mobilization of scientific knowledge supposes an interesting proposal for the reflection and problematization of such a complex relationship and offers some indications to situate the dynamics of interaction between the processes of production of knowledge of the social sciences and the extra-academic agents that can appropriate and use the results of social research. In this paper, building on previous contributions, we discuss the dynamics of mobilization of scientific knowledge in the social sciences, in particular for the field of political science, revisiting various analytical emergents that observe the academy-environment relationship. Likewise, we present some evidence-based conclusions from a field work on the perceptions about the knowledge production process, the strategies and forms of interaction, as well as the main users of their research. First, the work characterizes the regional field of political science and its dynamics; secondly, we problematize the theoretical-analytical approaches that analyze the relationship between the mode of production of knowledge and its dynamics of use and social appropriation, and, finally, the third section introduces the first empirically based emerging from an ongoing study on the dynamics of interaction between social researchers and non-academic users.
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