Abstract
This chapter analyses the role of evidence in the policy stream as described in the multiple streams approach (MSA). It outlines the main features of the MSA before considering the role of scientific evidence in the problem stream. It then discusses in more detail the role of evidence in the policy stream, structuring the discussion around the criteria for survival of a policy idea set out in the MSA: technical feasibility, value acceptability, tolerable costs, public acquiescence and receptivity among elected decision-makers. The findings indicate that while evidence may have obvious relevance to some criteria for survival than for others, it plays a role across all of the criteria—some of which are more closely related than previously acknowledged.
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