Introduction to the special issue on "The role of experts in developing social policies: Social scientists reflect on their experiences in government".

However, the case of family policy reform in the Czech Republic (Saxonberg, Formanková & Hasková, 2023) shows the need to modify these claims. As Sedlacko & Staronová (2023) argue, Slovak administrators were not interested in knowing the results of scientific studies and the same was true in the case of the Czech commission on family policy reform. Do governments base their decisions on policies according to expert knowledge and scientific evidence?. [Extracted from the article]