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View article: Fine-tuning the machine: Evaluating machinery of government for housing policy administration
Fine-tuning the machine: Evaluating machinery of government for housing policy administration Open
What this research is about: this research explores how changes to government administrative structures and processes affect housing policy in Australia. It outlines what can be done to reduce some of the negative impacts of these changes.…
Sustainability Change Agents and Their Implementation Work: Lessons From Water Change Agents in Australia Open
Sustainability transitions require extensive coordination work. Surprisingly, we know little about the actions of those driving them. Our research objective was to identify sustainability change agents and study their implementation work i…
Co-design in policymaking: from an emerging to an embedded practice Open
Over the past decade, a range of efforts have been made to incorporate practices drawn from industrial and participatory design into elements of the public policymaking process. Our interest lies in the field of co-design in policymaking. …
Policy coordination and development in a <span>VUCA</span> world Open
A growing bandwagon of commentators declare our collective existence is subject to volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Welcome to the ‘VUCA world’. Since populations typically turn to governments for support when crises str…
Contingent autonomy: Robotic encounters in an uncertain world Open
In this article, we develop a framework for robotic autonomy as contingent. We do so with an account of a series of online research workshops that asked people to design and test robot behaviours for a public space scenario of their choice…
Advancing policy design through creative engagement with lived experience: the Tomorrow Party Open
We consider how lived experience might actively inform policy design. Good policy design calls for analysis of problems, how they might be addressed, and likely outcomes. Policy scholars and practitioners have devised methods that bring ri…
A Qualitative Evaluation of the Australian Community Pharmacy Agreement Open
The Australian Federal Government’s Community Pharmacy Agreement (Agreement), initiated in 1990 and renegotiated every five years with a pharmacy owners’ organisation, is the dominant policy directing community pharmacy. We studied the exp…
An evaluation of the Australian Community Pharmacy Agreement from a public policy perspective: industry policy cloaked as health policy? Open
The Agreements can be characterised predominantly as industry policy benefiting pharmacy owners, rather than health policy. An emerging issue is whether incremental change will continue to be an adequate policy response to the social, poli…
RegTech and creating public value: opportunities and challenges Open
Regulatory technology (RegTech) has its origins in private sector applications of information technology in pursuit of more efficient compliance with government regulations. Initially, the term “RegTech” referred to either the technical so…
Mapping the discourse on evidence-based policy, artificial intelligence, and the ethical practice of policy analysis Open
Scholarship on evidence-based policy, a subset of the policy analysis literature, largely assumes information is produced and consumed by humans. However, due to the expansion of artificial intelligence in the public sector, debates no lon…
Cross‐scale, cross‐level and multi‐actor governance of transformations toward the Sustainable Development Goals: A review of common challenges and solutions Open
The importance of governance for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is uncontested. However, the design of effective governance arrangements to initiate and deliver the necessary transformations is complex, multi‐scale, and…
Leadership skills for regulators Open
Regulation plays a vital role in reducing harms and promoting public order. However, regulatory reform has been likened to painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge, it never ends. Coupling this reality with the increasing array of areas requirin…
There’s only so much a robot can do Open
New cities should not be built to cater for robots and technology; instead robots must adapt to live with humans in existing cities. Imagine a city of the near future where robots roam freely. They scoot along smooth footpaths, nimbly avoi…
The robotic production of spatiality: Predictability, partitioning, and connection Open
Robots are an increasing presence in our public spaces. Accordingly, in this paper, we make an argument for the importance of understanding how they produce spatiality by developing three robotic logics: predictability, partitioning, and c…
How can we drive sustainability transitions? Open
Sustainability transitions are required to address challenges of climate change, economic development, ecological integrity, and social justice. Driving sustainability transitions is difficult but necessary work. We discuss sustainability …
Policy education in Australia and New Zealand: towards a decolonized pedagogy Open
Policy Education in Australia and New Zealand has flourished in recent years. As governments in each country have sought to redress the legacies of colonization, more effort has been made to incorporate indigenous perspectives into policy …
View article: COVID-19 as a policy window: policy entrepreneurs responding to violence against women
COVID-19 as a policy window: policy entrepreneurs responding to violence against women Open
Policy windows emerge through alignment among specific policy problems, political forces, and proposed policy responses. During policy windows, it becomes possible for change to occur, driven by the agenda-setting of policy entrepreneurs. …
Comparing the policy narratives of Angela Merkel and Boris Johnson during the Covid-19 pandemic Open
The Covid-19 pandemic has required citizens to adhere to strict restrictions to help tackle infection rates. Drawing on a new study, Michael Mintrom, Maria Rost Rublee, Matteo Bonotti and Steven T. Zech compare the effectiveness of the pol…
Robots in public spaces: implications for policy design Open
Rapid advances in digital technologies have allowed robots to become more autonomous and efficacious than ever before. Future developments in robotics hold the potential to transform human robot interactions. We can expect to see robots pe…
View article: Issue Information ‐ TOC
Issue Information ‐ TOC Open
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Aligning Robot's Behaviours and Users' Perceptions Through Participatory Prototyping Open
Robots are increasingly being deployed in public spaces. However, the general population rarely has the opportunity to nominate what they would prefer or expect a robot to do in these contexts. Since most people have little or no experienc…
How state governments talk about the covid-19 pandemic helps them tackle it. Open
Much of the responsibility for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in the US has fallen on states and their governments. Michael Mintrom and Ruby O’Connor write that the stories governors have told their citizens about their state’s COVID-19 po…
A Research Agenda for the Study of Policy Entrepreneurs Open
The study of policy entrepreneurs as agents of change has developed greatly in recent years, supported by increasingly more sophisticated theoretical and empirical research. In this article, we first consider how the concept of the policy …
The importance of policy narrative: effective government responses to Covid-19 Open
The spread of Covid-19 and the variety of government responses opens space for policy learning. Traditional policy analysis tools would lead us to explain policy variation using population size, ease of closing jurisdictional borders, gove…
Policy entrepreneurship in Asia: the emerging research agenda Open
Policy entrepreneurs engage in collaborative action to promote broad societal changes. They distinguish themselves from other political actors through their willingness to promote policy innovations that are new within specific contexts. R…
New Zealand's Wellbeing Budget Invests in Population Health Open
New Zealand's first “Wellbeing Budget” was delivered in May 2019 by the country's minister of finance, Hon Grant Robertson.1 The second budget from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's left-of-center, Labour-led coalition government elected in …
So you want to be a policy entrepreneur? Open
Policy entrepreneurs are energetic actors who engage in collaborative efforts in and around government to promote policy innovations. Given the enormous challenges now facing humanity, the need is great for such actors to step forward and …
The need to design collaboration: improving the effectiveness of commissioning with design thinking Open
Public policies and programs are intended to improve the lives of citizens and considerable efforts are being made to increase the likelihood that they will generate intended effects. We explore the neglected connection between design thin…