European Policy Analysis Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2016 | Page 204

Juggling Multiple Networks in Multiple Streams

Practical Consequences

Such findings have been found
repeatedly in follow-up studies. Most of
these have started from the premise that
something is going wrong at the nexus
between research, policy and practice (de
Goede et al. 2010; Jansen et al. 2010). Such
studies have, for instance, endeavored to
develop and validate local health reports
for policy making (Van Bon-Martens et
al. 2011), similar to the Health Profiles
that have been part of Healthy City efforts
in Europe and elsewhere (Waddell 1995).
Others have taken this idea a step further
by exploring the utility of such reports
as perceived by institutional actors (i.e.,
the public sector stakeholders formally
mentioned in the relevant legislation)
in the local health domain (de Goede,
Putters, and van Oers 2012) and a third
perspective has