Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
8-2018
Abstract
The essence of policy design resides in the articulation of policy options expected to meet government goals. Not all policies are as well or as carefully formulated as they could be, however, and policy studies has been interested for several decades in understanding why policy alternatives are developed, why some are successfully adopted while others are not and how some policies emerge from carefully crafted formulation processes while others are more heavily influenced by other processes such as political, partisan or electoral or legislative bargaining ( Howlett, 2011 ). Why design occurs and how superior designs can be achieved—either all at once or over time— in complex issue areas are outstanding topics in contemporary formulation studies ( Howlett and Mukherjee, 2014 ; Howlett, 2014 ).
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
375
Last Page
388
ISBN
9781351252898
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
City or Country
London
Citation
MUKHERJEE, Ishani, & HOWLETT, Michael. (2018). Gauging effectiveness: First and second-best policy design. In Routledge Handbook of Policy Design (pp. 375-388). London: Taylor and Francis.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2774
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