Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1332/030557319x15613699681219
Michael Howlett
Policy design is a type of policy formulation activity centred on knowledge application in the creation of policy alternatives. Expected to attain public sector goals and government ambitions in an effective fashion, it can be undertaken many different ways. The current literature on policy design features an ongoing debate between adherents of traditional approaches to the subject in the policy sciences and those importing into policymaking the insights of design practices in other fields such as industrial engineering and product development: ‘design-thinking’. Issues examined in more traditional approaches to policy design are very wide-ranging and address a wide variety of formulation modalities and their strengths and weaknesses. Efforts to promote ‘design-thinking’ in the public policy realm, on the other hand, focus on policy innovation and rarely deal with issues such as the barriers to implementation, political feasibility or the constraints under which decision-making takes place. This article discusses these differences and argues adherents of design-thinking need to expand their reach and consider not only the circumstances facilitating the generation of novel ideas but also the lessons of more traditional approaches concerning the political and other challenges faced in policy formulation and implementation.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1332/030557319x15586040837640
Maurits Waardenburg, M. Groenleer, J. D. Jong
There has been much debate about the contribution of 'design thinking' to the fields of public policy and governance. This article makes an empirical contribution to this debate by examining the Organised Crime Field Lab - an environment for experimenting with, learning about and innovating in collaborative governance. The study involved working with 18 different multi-agency collaborations involving over 160 professionals as they developed novel approaches to fighting organised crime. Combining quasi-experimental and action research methods, our analysis offers valuable insights into how an environment can be designed that creates the conditions to support collaborations in overcoming the most common challenges in their design process. In particular, we find that a specially designed environment including a structured but flexible problem-solving space, an inclusive facilitative process and a custom-made accountability structure can support collaborative design processes.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1332/030557320x15910206974407
Subba Reddy Yarram, B. Dollery, C. Tran
In common with higher tiers of government worldwide, Australian state governments often adopt highly interventionist ‘one-size-fits-all’ policies aimed at improving local government efficiency and performance. In this article, we employ recent expenditure data to investigate empirically the short-term impacts of rate capping on municipal expenditure in the Australian state of Victoria and to explore whether it had differential effects on spending by different types of local authorities. We find that while total spending did not fall, budgets for ‘invisible’ services, like aged care and disabled services, did decline. Our analysis also shows that the impact of rate capping on the various types of municipal expenditures is uneven between the different categories of local authority. Our findings add to the existing literature on local government finance by demonstrating that the impact of rate capping varies according to different expenditure types classified by local council categories in a non-linear population framework.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1332/030557319x15579230420090
B. Peters
Policy design has returned to the centre of discussions of public policy, both for academics and practitioners. With that interest in policy design has come an interest in organisations and institutions that will do the designing, with much of the interest being in structures such as policy laboratories that attempt to foster innovation. These organisations tend to exist outside government hierarchies and support collaborative designing with stakeholders and citizens. This paper examines the potential of these structures from an organisational perspective. Although they do offer great promise as sources of innovation they also confront a number of institutional barriers and dilemmas. This paper focuses on those barriers and dilemmas, as well as some possible means of overcoming them.
{"title":"Designing institutions for designing policy","authors":"B. Peters","doi":"10.1332/030557319x15579230420090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/030557319x15579230420090","url":null,"abstract":"Policy design has returned to the centre of discussions of public policy, both for academics and practitioners. With that interest in policy design has come an interest in organisations and institutions that will do the designing, with much of the interest being in structures such as policy laboratories that attempt to foster innovation. These organisations tend to exist outside government hierarchies and support collaborative designing with stakeholders and citizens. This paper examines the potential of these structures from an organisational perspective. Although they do offer great promise as sources of innovation they also confront a number of institutional barriers and dilemmas. This paper focuses on those barriers and dilemmas, as well as some possible means of overcoming them.","PeriodicalId":47631,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Politics","volume":"1 1","pages":"131-147"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90200371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-04-30DOI: 10.1332/030557318X15230059147191
C. Weible, P. Cairney
First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this critical and practical volume challenges policy theory scholars to change the way they produce and communicate research. Leading scholars propose eight ways to synthesis and translate knowledge to equip scholars to clearly communicate their insights with each other and a wider audience.
{"title":"Practical Lessons from Policy Theories","authors":"C. Weible, P. Cairney","doi":"10.1332/030557318X15230059147191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/030557318X15230059147191","url":null,"abstract":"First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this critical and practical volume challenges policy theory scholars to change the way they produce and communicate research. Leading scholars propose eight ways to synthesis and translate knowledge to equip scholars to clearly communicate their insights with each other and a wider audience.","PeriodicalId":47631,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Politics","volume":"7 1","pages":"183-197"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2018-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73581440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-11DOI: 10.1332/030557315X14353344872935
J. Torfing, C. Ansell
Explores the role of scale and scaling in collaborative governance, focusing on a wide range of policy areas with cases drawn from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America.
{"title":"How Does Collaborative Governance Scale?","authors":"J. Torfing, C. Ansell","doi":"10.1332/030557315X14353344872935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/030557315X14353344872935","url":null,"abstract":"Explores the role of scale and scaling in collaborative governance, focusing on a wide range of policy areas with cases drawn from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America.","PeriodicalId":47631,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Politics","volume":"10 1","pages":"315-329"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2018-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74416826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-09-13DOI: 10.1332/030557317X14972799760260
C. Ansell, E. Sørensen, J. Torfing
{"title":"Improving policy implementation through collaborative policymaking","authors":"C. Ansell, E. Sørensen, J. Torfing","doi":"10.1332/030557317X14972799760260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/030557317X14972799760260","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47631,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Politics","volume":"1 1","pages":"467-486"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2017-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73249470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-07-07DOI: 10.1332/030557316X14775864546490
A. Nicholls, S. Teasdale
Social enterprise has been portrayed as challenging neoliberalism, and alternatively, as neoliberalism by stealth. Here we conceptualise social enterprise as a microparadigm nested within wider political and economic frameworks. Our analysis of continuity and change over a period of political and economic crisis in England demonstrates considerable evidence of normative change in the ideas underpinning social enterprise policies. However, further analysis reveals that the (neoliberal) cognitive ideas underpinning the social enterprise paradigm remained intact. This suggests that policy paradigms can accommodate normative differences within a shared cognitive framework, and hence, are more fluid, and have greater longevity, than previously recognised.
{"title":"Neoliberalism by stealth? Exploring continuity and change within the UK social enterprise policy paradigm","authors":"A. Nicholls, S. Teasdale","doi":"10.1332/030557316X14775864546490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/030557316X14775864546490","url":null,"abstract":"Social enterprise has been portrayed as challenging neoliberalism, and alternatively, as neoliberalism by stealth. Here we conceptualise social enterprise as a microparadigm nested within wider political and economic frameworks. Our analysis of continuity and change over a period of political and economic crisis in England demonstrates considerable evidence of normative change in the ideas underpinning social enterprise policies. However, further analysis reveals that the (neoliberal) cognitive ideas underpinning the social enterprise paradigm remained intact. This suggests that policy paradigms can accommodate normative differences within a shared cognitive framework, and hence, are more fluid, and have greater longevity, than previously recognised.","PeriodicalId":47631,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Politics","volume":"192 1","pages":"323-341"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2017-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82161289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-07-07DOI: 10.1332/030557316X14778312165186
Tom Montgomery, Micaela Mazzei, Simone Baglioni, S. Sinclair
{"title":"Who cares? The social care sector and the future of youth employment","authors":"Tom Montgomery, Micaela Mazzei, Simone Baglioni, S. Sinclair","doi":"10.1332/030557316X14778312165186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/030557316X14778312165186","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47631,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Politics","volume":"36 1","pages":"413-429"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2017-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83492176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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