How can we explain the worldwide spread of evidence-based policymaking despite continuous criticism? What are the underlying mechanisms of its persistence on a global scale? This article aims at answering these questions by focusing on the cultural constellations in which evidence is imbued with political as well as epistemic authority. Evidence cultures are discursive and institutional forces (re-)producing both the scientific validation of knowledge and its relevance in policymaking. They need to be understood as self-propagating constellations of interlinking science and policy through practices, discourses and institutionally sedimented regulations. Evidence is the product of chains of practices in which the initial knowledge struggles are gradually made publicly invisible and often inaccessible. The article reconstructs the immunization of evidence cultures from criticism and their silent politics by looking at quantifications, benchmarking and randomized controlled trials as typical cases. To overcome the circularities and closures so characteristic of the evidence culture of evidence-based policymaking, politico-epistemic diversity should be actively promoted.

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证据的世界：证据文化的全球传播和无声的政治


尽管不断受到批评，我们该如何解释循证决策在世界范围内的传播？它在全球范围内持续存在的底层机制是什么？本文旨在通过关注证据充满政治和认识权威的文化星座来回答这些问题。证据文化是话语和制度力量（重新）产生对知识的科学验证及其在政策制定中的相关性。它们需要被理解为通过实践、话语和制度沉淀的法规将科学和政策相互联系的自我传播星座。证据是实践链的产物，在这些实践链中，最初的知识斗争逐渐变得公开不可见，而且往往无法获得。本文通过将量化、基准测试和随机对照试验视为典型案例，重建了证据文化对批评及其无声政治的免疫。为了克服循证决策证据文化的循环和封闭性，应积极促进政治认识的多样性。