ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the evidence-based policy trajectories in health and education areas are described at international and European levels. It focuses on policies which institutionalise the technologies at the core of the State, particularly with the development of New Public Management and the restructuring of the Welfare State. It then describes the changing conditions of educational sciences and the emergence of a regulatory objectivity producing hierarchies of evidence in research. The chapter presents the use of the political technology within the UK Third Way policies, particularly in public evaluation programmes focused on at risk populations. It then presents the international circulation of evidence-based technologies from local configurations in New Zealand to transnational networks linking and associating local actors into worldwide collaborations and international projects. The epistemology institutionalises a hierarchy of evidence for which Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) are positioned at the first rank above upper quasi-experimental devices, systematic reviews of research literature, and meta-analyses.
