- Read more: To Change the World, We Need to Rethink Research-Policy Engagement
This paper examines the landscape of knowledge mobilisation initiatives, and summarises what we know, what we don’t, and what we need to do next as a research community.
- Read more: Designing Institutions for Designing Policy
Public policy, like architecture or engineering, is a design science. Its ultimate purpose is to produce public policies that improve the lives of citizens, and to do so at a reasonable cost. Policy design is arguably more difficult than other forms of design. This paper examines what is needed for a viable policy design and…
- Read more: Failure and Learning in Policy Innovation
This paper argues that policy failure frequently serves as a precondition for innovation in the public sector, due to voter myopia, blame avoidance, and the ill-structured nature of policy problems. Drawing on the Innovator’s Dilemma framework and Switzerland’s Electronic Health Record case, it shows how failure creates the political conditions necessary for reform
- Read more: The opportunities and challenges of politically designed co-creation platforms
How effectively can governments create supportive structures that enable the involvement of citizens in shaping policy? This paper examines one approach to doing so through a case study of the London Borough of Culture programme, identifying how such attempts may both enable and constrain citizen involvement.
- Read more: Navigating the Adoption of AI for Policymaking
In this paper, the author draws on his experiences working with various types of public organisations across different countries at the intersection of economic policymaking and computational methods to argue that the current hype for AI has unique characteristics that call for rethinking how public institutions adopt this technology for policymaking. The paper underlines that…
- Read more: Implementation-minded policy making
This paper, written by a team of researchers from the Centre for Evidence and Implementation and the Wales Centre for Public Policy, examines how bad implementation can result in policy failure. The authors show how successful policy implementation depends on the interaction between the content or ‘logic’ of the policy and the implementation context, highlighting…
