Future of the Policy Sciences

Edited by Anis Ben Brik, Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, Institute of Communication and Public Policy, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland and Leslie A. Pal, Professor and Dean, College of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

‘Brik and Pal bring together a timely and robust examination of the “future of policy sciences” boldly asking what are the new policy and governance challenges in a post pandemic world? And within the context of a potentially “bigger, protective state”, how well positioned and developed are the theories of policy science to progress meaningful and robust analysis? This book points to new and emerging themes in theoretical development, research and in the curricula of policy schools across the globe, noting unique developments in the non-Western world. Discussion explores the emerging concerns for the governance of turbulence, the challenging disdain of expertise and evidence, the growing role of big data and the accelerated interest in digital services pushed by pandemic pressures and uncertainty. Scholars and leaders of programs and schools of policy and governance will find this a valuable account of how the policy sciences is evolving and what is driving this intellectual development.’

• Contents:Preface x1 Introduction: futures, now and then 1Anis Ben Brik and Leslie A. Pal2 Embracing the future of the policy sciences: big data in pedagogy and practice 9Nihit Goyal, Ola G. El-Taliawi and Michael Howlett3 Neo-professionalization of the civil service: an institutional perspectiveon policy studies education 28Kris Hartley and Norainie Ahmad4 Policy science beyond self-congratulatory virtue signalling: matchingsupply and demand in the scholarship, pedagogy and purpose of thepolicy enterprise 51Michael Howlett and Darryl S. L. Jarvis5 Public policy education in the non-Western world: changing contextand content 70Sreeja Nair, Ola G. El-Taliawi and Zeger Van der Wal6 Disaster risk reduction and the development narrative: towards a newpublic policy epistemic 85Glen Kuecker and Kris Hartley7 Policy practices: a bridge between policy theory and empirical research 103Arnošt Veselý8 Policy expertise and policy markets: challenges for tackling complexproblems in turbulent times 121Brian W. Head9 Back to the future: learning from the evolution of global sustainabilitygovernance 140Andreas Rechkemmer10 What is a policy scholar for? 163Claire A. Dunlop and Claudio M. RadaelliConclusion. Future tense: a new grammar for the policy sciences? 180Leslie A. Pal and Anis Ben BrikIndex 204