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Purpose – This paper starts from the familiar premise of evidence-based policy, and examines the active role that researchers play in policy development processes. The interactive nature of much research translation immediately suggests the need to consider the dynamic way in which problems come to be understood, which is explored in this paper. Furthermore, the integration of research knowledge with the knowledges of "ordinary" citizens is a key challenge. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This paper represents a synthesis of recent studies conducted by the author and her colleagues along with other drug policy literature. Findings – The interactive and dialogic processes that researchers engage with, whether as knowledge brokers or participants in elite policy development forums, have implications for how policy problems (and solutions) come to be constituted. Four perspectives and theoretical approaches are briefly outlined: research design; policy processes; problematization; and critical social sciences analyses. These offer different ways of seeing, understanding and analyzing the relationship between problems, policy solutions and the policy processes. Yet all have lessons for the ways in which research evidence and researchers constitute policy. This needs to sit alongside the role of other drug policy stakeholders – notably the "ordinary" citizen. It is argued that the elite role of research can be tempered with engagement of ordinary citizens. While it can be challenging to reconcile general public views about drugs with the evidence-base, deliberative democracy approaches may hold some promise. Originality/value – This paper draws together a number of central themes for drug policy processes research: where the evidence-based policy paradigm intersects with participatory democracy; how problems are constituted; and the privileged role of research and researchers.

CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, ANARCHIST UTOPIAS HAVE NOT DISCARDED THE NOTION OF PUNISHMENT TO CONTROL MISCONDUCT. WILLIAM GODWIN AND PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON BOTH FEAR MISCONDUCT IN THE GOOD SOCIETY AND RECOMMEND RETRIBUTION AS A MEANS OF CONTROLLING IT. IN FACT, PUNISHMENT & ANARCHISM ARE NOT INCOMPATIBLE, EVEN IN THEORY.

Rassismus gehört zum Alltag und ist integraler wie integrierender Teil unserer Gesellschaft. Aussagen wie: »Ich bin eigentlich aufgeschlossen, aber« leugnen und bestätigen diese Realität zugleich. In der Altenpflege markieren solche Sätze ein Ausschlussbegehren gegenüber einer Zusammenarbeit mit migrantischen Pflegekräften. Monique Ritter wählt multidisziplinäre Zugänge, um das »aber« kontextbezogen am Beispiel der häuslichen Altenpflege in Ostdeutschland zu verstehen. Dabei verknüpft sie nicht nur rassismuskritische, postkoloniale und sozioökonomische Dimensionen des Unbehagens, sondern nimmt auch Bezug auf die spezifisch-historischen Lebenserfahrungen in der DDR und der (Nach-)Wendezeit.

"Taking a multidisciplinary perspective (including public health, sociology, criminology, and political science amongst others), and using examples from across the globe, this book provides a detailed understanding of the complex and highly contested nature of drug policy, drug policy making and the theoretical perspectives that inform the study of drug policy. It draws on four different theoretical perspectives: evidence-informed policy, policy process theories, democratic theory, and post-structural policy analysis. The use and trade in illegal drugs is a global phenomenon. It is viewed by governments as a significant social, legal, and health problem that shows no signs of abating. The key questions explored throughout this book are what governments and other bodies of social regulation should do about illicit drugs, including drug policies aimed at improving health and reducing harm, drug laws and regulation, and the role of research and values in policy development. Seeing policy formation as dynamic iterative interactions between actors, ideas, institutions, and networks of policy advocates, the book explores how policy problems are constructed and policy solutions selected, and how these processes intersect with research evidence and values. This then animates the call to democratise drug policy and bring about inclusive meaningful participation in policy development in order to provide the opportunity for better, more effective, and value-aligned drug policies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of drug policy from a number of disciplines, including public health, sociology, criminology, and political science"--