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This article explores the factors that influence the impact of ex-post legislativeevaluations and suggests that these factors can be divided into three maincategories: context, research quality, and interaction. Contextual factors,including the evaluation’s initiation, it’s place in the legislative process, thevaried functions given by stakeholders, and the level of political or socialattention, are beyond researchers’ control. However, researchers caninfluence research quality and interaction with stakeholders, such as theevaluations’ commissioner, as well as the society at large, thereby increasingthe likelihood of achieving impactful results. They should engage with theevaluation context to improve impact, but must also maintain independencewhile being influenced by the context. These findings are in line with themuch broader literature on the impact of policy and programme evaluationswhich pays less attention to the policy instrument legislation. Therefore, bothdisciplines have an interest in a better exchange of knowledge.
