Research Handbook of Policy Design

Edited by B. Guy Peters, Maurice Falk Professor Emeritus of Government, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, US and Guillaume Fontaine, Senior Researcher, The Comparative Policy Lab, FLACSO, Ecuador

‘Arguably no more important question, in the global era, faces students of public policy than to understand the processes and approach for developing, and implementing, policy design. Understanding the conditions through which policy design emerges, shapes policy tools’ considerations and, ultimately – as Peters and Fontaine’s impressive collection of essays make clear – is not just about achieving goal attainment but also about understanding how competing and complementary approaches for doing so end up influencing how we view problems and consideration of their solutions. It is for these reasons that it is hard to overstate the importance of this book for students and practitioners of public policy. Not only does this book make contributions to those seeking to explain, and prescribe, public policy, but it also makes it clear that the turn toward “decision science” and universalist answers, and its corresponding reliance on “big data” and sophisticated algorithms, as illustrated in the Heikkilä, Wellstead and Wood chapter, provides an incomplete knowledge base required for a comprehensive interrogation of policy design. For these reasons the book’s embracing of the contribution of different knowledge communities is not only refreshing, it is required for those who seek to advance societal deliberations over what it means to engage in “good policy”, rather than advancing approaches that narrow these conversations. Required reading for students of public policy and practitioners who seek to improve an understanding of, and ameliorate, the myriad of vexing policy challenges facing governments, and civil society.’

• Contents:Foreword: policy design as aspiration and frustration xiiiDavis B. BobrowPreface xvi1 Introduction to the Research Handbook of Policy Design:operationalizing the policy design framework 1B. Guy Peters and Guillaume FontainePART I THEORIES OF THE POLICY DESIGN FRAMEWORK2 The politics of policy design 40Nick Turnbull3 Institutions, institutional theory, and policy design 54B. Guy Peters4 Instrumentation in policy design: policy tools – from devices to activators 72Giliberto Capano and Michael Howlett5 Policy instrumentation with or without policy design 88Patrick Le Galès6 Policy design and constructivism 104Marlon Barbehön7 Making sense of (and with) policy design 120Hal K. ColebatchPART II CAUSATION AND PROBLEM DEFINITION8 Four models of causation in the design of anti-corruption policies 136Guillaume Fontaine, Taymi Milán and Alejandro Hernández-Luis9 Coping with wicked problems in policy design 155Brian W. Head10 Listening to science in policy design: the contrasting cases of Quebecand Sweden during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic 176Antoine Lemor, Louis-Robert Beaulieu-Guay, PerOla Öberg and Éric Montpetit11 Fourth industrial revolution and algorithms: new challenges for policy design 194Adam Wellstead, Tanya Heikkila and Matthew Wood12 Good trouble in the academy: inventing design-focused case studiesabout public management as an archetype of policy design research 212Michael Barzelay, Luciano Andrenacci, Sérgio N. Seabra and Yifei YanPART III EVALUATION, FRAMING AND VALUES13 A political theory of policy formulation practice, and stakeholder engagement 234Robert Hoppe14 Bridging ideas and policy design 256Daniel Béland and Ishani Mukherjee15 Anti-poverty program design under the human capital and human rightsperspectives: overall features and Mexican cases 270José Luis Méndez and Dafne Villagrán16 Social policies for older adults in industrialized countries 285Patrik Marier, Margaux Reiss and Isabelle Van PevenagePART IV INSTRUMENTATION AND COORDINATION17 Governance models and policy design 299Jon Pierre18 Adaptive governance through policy design 313Saba Siddiki19 Designing social policies: design spaces and capacity challenges 326Namrata Chindarkar, M. Ramesh and Michael Howlett20 Designing for coordination: the case of regulatory management policy 341Fabrizio De Francesco and Valérie Pattyn21 Policy design for policy coordination 355Geert Bouckaert, B. Guy Peters and Koen VerhoestPART V INTERVENTION AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT22 Policy design labs and innovation 376Jenny M. Lewis23 Complexity, innovation and policy design 392Steven Ney24 Enhancing policy design and sustainable community outcomes throughcollaborative platforms based on a dynamic performance managementand governance approach 411Carmine Bianchi25 Co-designing urban policies 434Catherine Durose and Liz Richardson26 Policy design as deliberative practice: learning from Khon Kaen (Thailand) 447Piyapong Boossabong and Frank Fischer27 Conclusion to the Research Handbook of Policy Design: A research agenda 465B. Guy Peters and Guillaume FontaineIndex