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that supports discourse and deliberation in evidence-based processes. As such,
they require institutional checks and balances to guarantee neutrality of and
open access to data to increase transparency about who defines what at which
stage of the evidence-based policy-making process. They demand interlinkages
between and responsiveness of statistics creation and the policy context, which
data should inform. As a result, the use of data in EBPM becomes open to
multiple, strategic and value-based considerations that support interests of
central knowledge and data producers, brokers and users.

2. Methodology
Conceptual framing; results of case study analysis.

3. Essential results and key take-aways
• Data use in politics materialises essential features of ‘governing by
knowing’.
• Statistics have become key instruments of collective political
action.
• Evidence morphs into policy and advocacy tools.
• Quantification is normative and political.
• Data need to adhere to principles of legitimacy, transparency,
accountability.
• Evidence in politics is subject to preference building and
negotiation.
• Statistics have ‘knowledge and governance effects’.
• Evidence becomes subject to public discourse, scrutiny and
contestation.
• Data use fosters participatory structures, co-creation and epistemic
community building.
• Narratives and alternative forms of evidence become relevant.
• Statistics become part of the knowledge and evidence production
process.
• Their production and use require institutional checks to guarantee
transparency of use.
• Requirements for data and evidence production change.

Today’s key challenges for data production for EBPM are:
• Openness to public scrutiny & contestation (Normative character &
implications: What narratives & power structures emerge from use of
statistics)
• Participatory structures in political systems (Tendency of epistemic
community-building: Statistics as opportunity structure; Framing
potential; Participation; Co-creation)

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