The Research to Practice Brief Series provides short summaries of scholarly publications produced by Center-affiliated scholars and practitioners. They are designed to highlight a publication’s most essential takeaways, including the research topic and main findings, and to encourage readers to consult the original work for more information.

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2025

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Evidence-based practices and US state government civil servants: Current use, challenges, and pathways forward, Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, Leslie Thompson, Shuping Wang, Jules Marzec, Chengxin Xu, Weston Merrick, and Patrick Carter

2024

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Evaluating conflict in collaborative environmental governance: A study of environmental justice councils, Graham Ambrose, Jangmin Kim, and Saba Siddiki

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A policy design perspective on electricity rates, Nicholas Oesterling

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Institutional fit and policy design in water governance: Nebraska's Natural Resources Districts, Tomás Olivier and Sechindra Vallury

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Evaluating Use of Evidence in U.S. State Governments: A Conjoint Analysis, Chengxin Xu, Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, Shuping Wang, Weston Merrick, and Patrick Carter

2023

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Research in a Closed Political Context, COVID, and Across Languages: Methodological Lessons, Messages, and Ideas, Darzhan Kazbekova and Rebecca Schewe

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Evaluating Change in Representation and Coordination in Collaborative Governance Over Time: A Study of Environmental Justice Councils, Saba Siddiki and Graham Ambrose

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Emotional Distress During COVID-19 by Mental Health Conditions and Economic Vulnerability: Retrospective Analysis of Survey-Linked Twitter Data With a Semisupervised Machine Learning Algorithm, Michiko Ueda-Ballmer, Kohei Watanabe, and Hajime Sueki