First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this updated volume explores policy failures and the valuable opportunities for learning that they offer.
Policy successes and failures offer important lessons for public officials, but often they do not learn from these experiences. The studies in this volume investigate this broken link. The book defines policy learning and failure and organises the main studies in these fields along the key dimensions of processes, products and analytical levels. Drawing together a range of experts in the field, the volume sketches a research agenda linking policy scholars with policy practice.
PART III Governance failure and metagovernance
Drawing on interviews with informants from a diverse range of 16 countries, including the US, the UK, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Peru, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Nigeria, this book examines how child support systems often fail to transfer payments from separated fathers to mothers and their children. It lays out how these systems are structured in ways that render them ineffective, while positioning women as responsible for their failures.
The book charts the demise of child support as a feminist intervention, resituating it as gendered governance practice that operates by making the system inaccessible, failing to deliver outcomes, and condoning fathers’ irresponsibility. It identifies how the gender order is entrenched through child support failure and offers possibilities for feminist reform.
139© The Policy Press • 2012 • ISSN 2040 8056 Voluntary Sector Review • vol 3 • no 2 • 2012 • 139–55 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204080512X649333 Key words failure • social enterprise • third sector Whose failure? Learning from the financial collapse of a social enterprise in ‘Steeltown’ Duncan Scott1 and Simon Teasdale The social enterprise literature is dominated by stories of good practice and heroic achievement. Failure has not been widely researched. The limited policy and practice literature presents failure as the flipside of good practice. Explanations
RESEARCH ARTICLE Digital mapping as double-tap: cartographic modes, calculations and failures Sam Hind and Sybille Lammes* Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK In this article, we will ask how Latour’s latest project – An Inquiry into Modes of Existence (AIME) – can help us to understand the nature of cartographic modes, calculations and failures. To this end, wewill argue that in hismany readings, specifically digitalmapping can be said to operate through a ‘double-click’modewhich obscures the [REF
99 Management failure FOUR Management failure Problems with public services The initial fieldwork in 1999 suggested that the interventions of some public services in the study neighbourhoods were far from effective. Most of the services we looked at had a neighbourhood focus, so we examined them at neighbourhood level, talking to ground-level staff and residents, rather than attempting to take an overview across the larger areas in the study. The problem was not that the services were absent. Only in primary healthcare, where GPs could exercise a choice about
123 EIGHT Intelligence failure Introduction As was highlighted earlier, much of our understanding of intelligence practice comes not from policing, which largely has hidden this facet of its work from public view, but from SIAs. Such knowledge is derived in particular from the US intelligence community, which for many years has encouraged research into its practices and has endorsed both publication of research findings and scholarly reflection on the themes that have emerged from them (often under the auspices of bodies such as the US National Institute
Most workers on temporary, zero hours and involuntary part-time contracts in the UK are women. Many are also carers. Yet employment law tends to exclude such women from family-friendly rights.
Drawing on interviews with women in precarious work, this book exposes the everyday problems that these workers face balancing work and care. It argues for stronger and more extensive rights that address precarious workers’ distinctive experiences.
Introducing complex legal issues in an accessible way, this crucial text exposes the failures of family-friendly rights and explains how to grant these women effective rights in the wake of COVID-19.
identify signs and symptoms of mental illness, in community policing and community-based crime reduction programmes, in responding to domestic violence and sexual assault, and so on. This chapter turns to the failure of reform and the problem of police reformism. The discussion focuses on the limitations of programmes of reform in affecting meaningful change. Given the number of inquiries and recommendations and the failure of empirical evidence, research, or practice to show significant improvements, it appears to be a case of not learning from continual failure and
This chapter reflects on the sites of child support failure outlined in Chapter 4 and locates these within the issues discussed in Chapter 5 regarding the failure to notice child support problems, particularly those that are experienced by women who must enact the child support system and then encounter the consequences of its failures. In this chapter, I advance the discussion by examining who benefits from the ways that child support fails, and the interests served at institutional and interactional levels. The assumption, developed in the previous
