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Globalization makes the world more complex to understand. Academic research contributes to this increase in complexity, as it collects more and more analytical data, information, and knowledge about the world. For policymakers this complexity poses an enormous challenge. In fact, they would need a continuous input of scholarly advice to be able to grasp the very scope and consequences of this complexity and deal with it in an adequate way.
This is particularly the case with regard to development policy, relating to all political areas, thus being a cross-sectional task in itself. There is a horizontal dimension involved, concerning all political sectors at the same political and organizational level (e.g. the interior, social, judicial levels in a community, a state, or a region). But there is also a vertical level, referring to relationships between different levels (from the lowest institutional level, the communal one, via the national up to the supranational and the global system).
To be able to make reasonable political decisions in modern complex societies, academic counselling is in increasing demand in order to facilitate, anticipate, and improve political processes and their outcome for the benefit of the state and of society.
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