The Future of the Policy Sciences最新文献

{"title":"Embracing the future of the policy sciences: big data in pedagogy and practice","authors":"N. Goyal, Ola G. El‐Taliawi, Michael Howlett","doi":"10.4337/9781800376489.00009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376489.00009","url":null,"abstract":"Although the emergence of Big Data provides an opportunity to synthesize and mobilize ever greater amounts of policy-relevant knowledge, it has not received adequate attention in studies of policy pedagogy and practice. In this chapter, we highlight the relevance of Big Data to policy analysis, policy implementation, and policy studies through a discussion of basic machine learning techniques and an illustration of their application in the case of better understanding policy response to COVID-19. Subsequently - based on a bibliometric review of nearly 2, 500 publications on big data in public policy and content analysis of course titles and descriptions in 122 programs worldwide - we make an evidence-informed appeal to increase the uptake of big data in policy research as well as teaching. We conclude that appropriate engagement with the big data phenomenon can help the policy sciences remain relevant and move a step closer to integrating policy research, pedagogy, and practice. © Anis Ben Brik and Leslie A. Pal 2021.","PeriodicalId":287034,"journal":{"name":"The Future of the Policy Sciences","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121499739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: futures, now and then","authors":"Anis ben Brik, L. Pal","doi":"10.4337/9781800376489.00008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376489.00008","url":null,"abstract":"As the third wave of the transboundary coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) drags on, policymakers and the public sector face their biggest test in generations—some say ever—as lives and livelihoods hang in a terrible, delicate balance. The COVID-19 pandemic, the most disruptive global event since the Great Depression and World War II, is involving many types of uncertainty: issues around data limitations; lack of consensus among experts and variations in expertise; the possibility of overand under-reactions; different levels of trust in government; technical know-how; political support for certain kinds of interventions, and many others (Capano et al., 2020). In addition, the pandemic is causing the deepest global economic downturn since the 2008 financial crisis, leading to unemployment, food insecurity, increased global poverty and inequality. The economic costs are staggering: much of the world has fallen into recession, public debt levels are soaring, and future growth prospects have dimmed. In addition, the coronavirus has accelerated existing trends toward nationalist populism, authoritarianism, and tense relations among countries, and specifically with China. The pandemic has exacerbated the retreat from globalization, and raised new barriers to international trade, investment, and travel. However, the coronavirus pandemic also provides windows of opportunity to re-examine the roles of government in society. The new, emerging role of governments will be one that takes a strong and active state as given, where policymakers are prepared to adopt harsh measures of control and “do whatever it takes” to maintain public health, public order, and a functioning economy. States may become the “ultimate bearer of major societal risks” (Roberts, 2020). The coronavirus pandemic is set to usher in a new era of bigger, more intrusive government. This kind of “protective state” implies more extensive social protection systems for a host of social, health, and economic threats, closer integration between states and markets, with states often taking a leading role, and a state administrative apparatus capable of managing this much more extensive agenda (Ansell, 2019). In many countries, science, expert knowledge, and evidence-based decisions have returned to their rightful place in government decisions and the demand for scientific and technical expertise has increased as governments and the public search for certainty in understanding problems and choosing responses. The result is an increased politicization of scientific and technical information (Weible et al., 2020). Even before becoming President, Joe Biden named 13 scientists and public health specialists to a COVID-19 advisory board. Biden said in a statement that the board will “help shape my approach to managing the surge in reported","PeriodicalId":287034,"journal":{"name":"The Future of the Policy Sciences","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114832873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Policy expertise and policy markets: challenges for tackling complex problems in turbulent times","authors":"B. Head","doi":"10.4337/9781800376489.00015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376489.00015","url":null,"abstract":"The market-place of policy ideas continues to become more diverse. This plurality of voices is welcome from the perspective of encouraging healthy and vigorous democratic debate, because multiple sources of information and advice could be valuable for addressing complex crises and contested policy problems. On the other hand, the platforms of policy debate and mediatised channels of opinion formation are often overwhelmed by shrill voices and powerful interests. Some of these are disdainful of science and expertise, and promote solutions based on opinions and rhetoric (‘post-truth’). Moreover, there has been a parallel decline in civic trust concerning public institutions and political elites. Can the policy sciences explain these inter-twined phenomena, especially under crisis conditions such as the Covid-19 pandemic? How can the policy sciences research agenda contribute to protecting and strengthening the role of best-available evidence in an inclusive policy process? Can research provide insights into how inclusion and transparency could assist in restoring public trust in high-quality decision-making?. © Anis Ben Brik and Leslie A. Pal 2021.","PeriodicalId":287034,"journal":{"name":"The Future of the Policy Sciences","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114386098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conclusion. Future tense: a new grammar for the policy sciences?","authors":"L. Pal, Anis ben Brik","doi":"10.4337/9781800376489.00018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376489.00018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":287034,"journal":{"name":"The Future of the Policy Sciences","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124600076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public policy education in the non-Western world: changing context and content","authors":"S. Nair, Ola G. El‐Taliawi, Z. Wal","doi":"10.4337/9781800376489.00012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376489.00012","url":null,"abstract":"Public policy education has mushroomed in the past two decades in non-Western countries, concomitant with governance models that provide an alternative to liberal Western democracies. Large part of the literature on policy sciences that forms a basis for classroom teaching and learning in the non-Western world emerged from a discussion of Western contexts and has been developed by western scholars. The transfer and applicability of policy concepts largely reflective of the context and perspectives outside of the West is unclear and less explored in literature. In an exploratory exercise to better understand the landscape of public policy education in the non-Western world, 46 public policy schools offering policy degrees are compared on various dimensions including degree offerings, institutional establishment and status, and mission. Through the analysis of selected policy schools, the chapter reflects on the future of policy sciences in the non-Western world in terms of a possible divergence from a Western school of thought, branching out from disciplinary foundations and emergence of public policy as a unique, independent field of inquiry and response of policy research and practice to new and emerging policy challenges like the COVID 19 pandemic. © Anis Ben Brik and Leslie A. Pal 2021.","PeriodicalId":287034,"journal":{"name":"The Future of the Policy Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122093978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Neo-professionalization of the civil service: an institutional perspective on policy studies education","authors":"K. Hartley, Norainie Ahmad","doi":"10.4337/9781800376489.00010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376489.00010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":287034,"journal":{"name":"The Future of the Policy Sciences","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122455408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Policy science beyond self-congratulatory virtue signalling: matching supply and demand in the scholarship, pedagogy and purpose of the policy enterprise","authors":"Michael Howlett, Darryl S. L. Jarvis","doi":"10.4337/9781800376489.00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376489.00011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":287034,"journal":{"name":"The Future of the Policy Sciences","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127802494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Disaster risk reduction and the development narrative: towards a new public policy epistemic","authors":"Glen Kuecker, K. Hartley","doi":"10.4337/9781800376489.00013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376489.00013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":287034,"journal":{"name":"The Future of the Policy Sciences","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125432291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Policy practices: a bridge between policy theory and empirical research","authors":"A. Veselý","doi":"10.4337/9781800376489.00014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376489.00014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":287034,"journal":{"name":"The Future of the Policy Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128962224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Back to the future: learning from the evolution of global sustainability governance","authors":"A. Rechkemmer","doi":"10.4337/9781800376489.00016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376489.00016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":287034,"journal":{"name":"The Future of the Policy Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131045300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}