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Tons of information about research, both gathering research and disseminating it. Here are some books that speak to disseminating research for policy purposes.
The National Origins of Policy Ideas provides the first comparative analysis of how "knowledge regimes"--communities of policy research organizations like think tanks, political party foundations, ad hoc commissions, and state research offices, and the institutions that govern them--generate ideas and communicate them to policymakers.