Policy Learning and Policy Failure

Claire A. Dunlop is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Exeter, UK. A public policy and administration scholar, her main fields of interest include the politics of expertise and knowledge utilization; risk governance; policy learning and analysis; impact assessment; and policy narratives.

“How do we know if policies have failed and in what way? Do we really want to learn, or to bury our heads in the sand? This marvellous collection of insights and case studies tackles the intersection of these issues in innovative and thought-provoking ways.” Allan McConnell, University of Sydney

• Policy learning and policy failure: definitions, dimensions and intersections ~ Claire A. DunlopPathologies of policy learning: what are they and how do they contribute to policy failure? ~ Claire A. DunlopOvercoming the failure of 'silicon somewheres': learning in policy transfer processes ~ Sarah GiestBetween policy failure and policy success: bricolage, experimentalism and translation in policy transfer ~ Diane StoneBritish Columbia's fast ferries and Sydney's Airport Link: partisan barriers to learning from policy failure ~ Joshua Newman and Malcolm G. BirdPolicy failures, policy learning and institutional change: the case of Australian health insurance policy change ~ Adrian KayPolicy myopia as a source of policy failure: adaptation and policy learning under deep uncertainty ~ Sreeja Nair and Michael Howlett