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Foundational concepts in Evidence-Based Policy Making, including evidence, outcomes, the relationship between EBPM, EBM and EIPM, and the boundary between empirical evidence and policy judgment.

Methods for determining whether policies actually cause change, including causal inference, RCTs, DID, RDD, logic models, outcomes, evaluation design and external validity.

How evidence is connected to policy decisions, budgets, administration, audit, judicial review and institutional design, with a focus on the conditions required for implementation.

Comparative analysis of policy evaluation, evidence use and foresight across countries, examining why institutions work in particular settings and what can — or cannot — be transferred elsewhere.

The opportunities and risks of using generative AI in policy research, including fabricated citations, overstatement, evidence provenance, human review and the Evidence Source Graph.