Design approaches to policymaking have gained increasing popularity among policymakers in recent years.
First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this book presents original critical reflections on the value of design approaches and how they relate to the classical idea of public administration as a design science. Contributors consider the potential, challenges and applications of design approaches and distinguish between three methods currently characterising the discipline: design as optimisation, design as exploration and design as co-creation.
Developing the dialogue around public administration as a design science, this collection explores how a more ‘designerly’ way of thinking can improve public administration and public policy.
The articles on which Chapters 4, 5 and 6 are based are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.
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This important book offers practical advice for using evidence and research in policymaking. The book has two aims. Firstly, it builds a case for ethics and global values in research and knowledge exchange, and secondly, it examines specific policy areas and how evidence can guide practice.
The book covers important policy areas including the GM debate, the environment, Black Lives Matter and COVID-19. Each chapter assesses the ethical challenges, the status of evidence in explaining or describing the issue and possible solutions to the problem. The book will enable policymakers and their advisors to seek evidence for their decisions from research that has been conducted ethically and with integrity.
467 Policy & Politics • vol 45 • no 3 • 467–86 • © Policy Press 2017 • #PPjnl @policy_politics Print ISSN 0305 5736 • Online ISSN 1470 8442 • https://doi.org/10.1332/030557317X14972799760260 Accepted for publication 09 May 2017 • First published online 14 June 2017 research provocations Improving policy implementation through collaborative policymaking Christopher Ansell, cansell@berkeley.edu University of California Berkeley, USA Eva Sørensen, eva@ruc.dk Jacob Torfing, jtor@ruc.dk Roskilde University, Denmark We offer a fresh perspective on implementation
7 TWO Dimension 1: The role of academic research in policymaking Including impact as part of the assessment of academic excellence in the UK has forcefully drawn the attention of universities to the relationship between research and policymaking. ICS will also form part of the forthcoming 2021REF and ‘doing impact’ has now become part of the workload and performance goals of many academics. While the central tenet that academics do have influence on the world around them is not disputed, the necessity and ability of capturing said effects has been
PART I Fundamentals of evidence and ethical dimensions in policymaking
Introduction The place of experts in politics and policymaking has attracted increasing attention in recent decades, both in public and academic debate. On the one hand, scholars highlight the growing role of expertise in policymaking: decision-makers are increasingly reliant on advanced knowledge to understand and address complex societal problems ( Haas, 1992 ), face growing expectations that policies should be based on the best available evidence about the effectiveness of policy interventions ( Davies et al, 2000 ; Jennings and Hall, 2012 ; Head, 2015
165 ELEVEN Policy analysis and policymaking by Japanese political parties Takahiro Suzuki Background to the bureaucracy-centred policymaking system in Japan The bureaucracy has been the primary vehicle for policy analysis and the policymaking process of Japan since the Meiji Restoration. While there have been numerous changes in Japan’s domestic political landscape since the Second World War, the end of the 1955 system and other events, there has not been a major change to this policymaking process. While there have been some attempts in the past to alter
21 CHAPTER TWO Mechanisms of policymaking introduction Policymaking is at the heart of the discussion of the influence of the EU on the UK. Public policy is the expression of any government’s activities and its response to political objectives, events and external relationships. The consideration of policymaking processes is important for this book as they comprise the sites where interactions and disagreements can occur. Policymaking can be influenced and developed in different ways and this chapter provides some context to these processes. The objective
47 CHAPTER THREE British public policymaking introduction The mechanisms of British policymaking can be considered within ideological, theoretical and realist frameworks. The theoretical approaches have been more overtly influenced by anglophone countries – the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – rather than elsewhere in Europe (Pollitt and Bouckaert, 2000). These approaches have been focused on the development and adoption of New Public Management ideologies (Hood, 1995, 1998; Newman, 2001), networked/relational schools (Bevir and Rhodes, 2003) and
Introduction Since the 1990s more attention has been focused on the ‘participation paradigm’ in the making of social policy ( Carr, 2007 ). In existing research, the participation of people in poverty has been framed as a promising anti-poverty strategy, entailing explicit recognition of the voices and life knowledge of poor people in the realm of social policymaking ( Beresford, 2001 ; Krumer-Nevo, 2005 , 2008 ). 1 It has been argued that ‘they have the capacity to place, and indeed sometimes to force, life knowledge on the political, professional
