Politics and policymaking --- Yes, I think you are right, Patricia. Here, the text refers to using science to depoliticize policymaking as the traditional perspective academics and practitioners had since the Enlightenment. Yet, as you see further in the text, it is important to understand that policymaking is political and must probably remain political. Political processes are essentially about comparing divergent interests and resolving conflicts of values and beliefs. In that light, the contribution of science must thus be seen as a support to political processes rather than a way to depoliticise them.

Source author: Maxime Stauffer Maxime.Stauffer@unige.ch