Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
8-2018
Abstract
The purpose and expectations of policy design efforts have always been clear ( Dryzek and Ripley, 1988 ; Linder and Peters, 1990 a, 1990b). Design is an activity conducted by a number of policy actors in the hope of improving policymaking and policy outcomes through the accurate anticipation of the consequences of government actions and the articulation of specific courses of action to be followed to achieve policy goals. This is to be accomplished by improving assessments of both the theoretical effectiveness and the feasibility of policy alternatives ( Majone, 1975 ; May, 2005 ; Gilabert and Lawford-Smith, 2012 ; Linder and Peters, 1990 a, 1990b).
Discipline
Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation | Political Science
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Routledge Handbook of Policy Design
Editor
M. Howlett and I. Mukherjee
First Page
136
Last Page
144
ISBN
9781351252898
Identifier
10.4324/9781351252928-9
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
City or Country
London
Citation
HOWLETT, Michael, MUKHERJEE, Ishani, & RAYNER, Jeremy. (2018). Understanding policy designs over time: Layering, stretching, patching and packaging. In Routledge Handbook of Policy Design (pp. 136-144). London: Taylor and Francis.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2772
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351252928-9
