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Dialogic, in collaboration with the Study Service of the Flemish Government (SVR), organized a workshop on the role of indicators in policy research at the Politicologenetmaal 2011. Within the public sector, there is a growing focus on developing, nurturing, and providing indicators to map and evaluate policies across various domains. However, the relationship between indicators and policy can sometimes resemble a love/hate dynamic. At times, the usefulness and necessity of indicators are questioned, yet they are deemed indispensable.
Therefore, the construction, nurturing, and provision of indicators play a crucial role in the communication between the field and the political/administrative policy. This workshop brought together expertise on the use and misuse of indicators in a policy context: conceptual (what, why, how, for what purpose?), technical, and above all, practical experience in monitoring administrative and political policies. Participants included policy researchers, advisors, and staff from Flemish and Dutch governments, consultancy firms, and universities. Frank Bongers (Dialogic) and Dries Verlet (SVR) presented their paper "Temperature of Government Policy".