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Continuing the narrative turn in public administration research

In recent years the debate in academia and government over the role and use of evidence in policymaking has taken a higher salience. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised more reliance on evidencebased policymaking in his government, and scholars have pointed to the use of information in the public sector which is the product of careful analysis (Tesar 2019; McKenna 2018). At the same time, some reiterate the wellknown impediments to securing consideration of sciencebased information by decision makers, such as intrusive political issues and nonlinear policy processes (French 2018). Emerging scholarship, however, contends that stories or narratives represent an opportunity to bring the two sides together, in particular that evidence can become a greater part of policymaking if offered as a feature of policy narratives (Jones and Crow 2017). Drawing on research both inside and outside the field of public administration, this New Frontiers piece argues that stories are wellsuited to convey elements of evidence to decisionmakers and that this approach opens up new avenues and opportunities for research on the use of narratives and evidence and the consequent impact on policy.