Theorising as a creative activity founded in rational argument and culling evidence is an under-used resource in policymaking. Middle-range theorising could strengthen the innovative capacity of those who both inform and implement political decisions. It can act as a relay between abstract macro-theories and variable analysis, offering viable accounts of current issues, problems and trends for specific life domains.
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International Conference on Youth Policy and Research: From Theory To
Theorising as a creative activity founded in rational argument and culling evidence is an under-used resource in policymaking. Middle-range theorising could strengthen the innovative capacity of those who both inform and implement political decisions. It can act as a relay between abstract macro-theories and variable analysis, offering viable accounts of current issues, problems and trends for specific life domains.
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Theorising as a creative activity founded in rational argument and culling evidence is an under-used resource in policymaking. Middle-range theorising could strengthen the innovative capacity of those who both inform and implement political decisions. It can act as a relay between abstract macro-theories and variable analysis, offering viable accounts of current issues, problems and trends for specific life domains.
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International Conference on Youth Policy and Research: From Theory to
Practice – Evidence Based Youth Policy, UN Centre Vienna, 23 – 25
September 2009 (Plenary session 23 September 15:30 – 18:30) Theorising youth: a resource for developing transversal youth policies Lynne Chisholm All social action – and hence policymaking – is informed, typically implicitly, by frameworks of ideas that make sense of the world: social action rests on theorising, but not usually explicitly or systematically. This leaves little room for critical analysis and counter-intuition, yet it is these that are more likely to prompt innovation, which suggests that theorising as a creative activity founded in rational argument and culling evidence is an under-used resource in policymaking. This could explain some of the sluggishness of youth policymaking in shifting decisively from sectoral care and control agendas to the autonomy and participation agendas of fluid life-politics. Young people generally know where they are, but youth policies are still looking for them and the evidence does not come together to construct the transversal picture. Middle-range theorising could strengthen the innovative capacity of those who both inform and implement political decisions. It can act as a relay between abstract macro-theories (such as ‘restructuration of the youth phase’) and variable analysis (such as ‘youth unemployment rates are on the rise’), offering viable accounts of current issues, problems and trends for specific life domains. This has some potential for developing transversal youth policies, since middle-range theories chart patterns and interpret their significance for the transversal picture, which facilitates making connections across policy sectors and, if one will, supports more joined- up youth policymaking.