Policy design and non-design: Discerning the content of policy packaging, patching, stretching and layering

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

10-2020

Abstract

The conditions for policy design usually do not allow much freedom for governmental actions: thus, notable policy reforms that involve the significant and deep redesign of aspects of the existing system, are rare, even if they can occur. In fact, policy-makers are usually constrained by vested interests and policy legacies that do not allow radical changes but can allow the design of different degrees of potential changes in the actual set of policy tools and policy goals. In this chapter, we attempt to organize the analytical tools through which the characteristics of policy design can be grasped in terms of both the content of design (more or less incremental; more or less coherent and congruent) and the mode of design (that is, the way through which the content of design is practically designed).

Discipline

Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation

Research Areas

Political Science

Publication

A modern guide to public policy

Editor

G. Capano & M. Howlett

First Page

204

Last Page

221

ISBN

9781789904987

Identifier

10.4337/9781789904987.00023

Publisher

Edward Elgar

City or Country

Cheltenham

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789904987.00023

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