Hybrid Public Policy Innovations: Contemporary Policy Beyond Ideology

ISBN-13: 9780367592066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 312 str.

Mark Fabian; Robert Breunig

Opis

This book is geared to scholars and practitioners of public policy administration and management who desire to understand the analytical reasons why policies are designed the way they are, and the purpose of evidence-gathering frameworks attached to policies at implementation.

Spis treści

Preface  1. The Ends and Means of Public Policy [Mark Fabian]  2. Behavioural Theories and Public Policy [Uwe Dulleck]  3. Institutions Matter: An Introduction to The Role of Institutions in Public Policy [Julia Talbot-Jones]  4. Regulatory Theories and Frameworks [Elizabeth Bluff]  5. Why Do We Need Evidence-Based Public Policy? [Robert Breunig]  6. Making Facts and Telling Furphies with Economic Modelling: Cost–Benefit Analysis in The Post-Truth Era [Leo Dobes]  7. Policy Experimentation and Impact Evaluation: The Case of a Student Voucher System in New Zealand [Sholeh A. Maani]  8. HECS: A Hybrid Model for Higher-Education Financing [Bruce Chapman]  9. Revisiting Danish Flexicurity After a Decade of Reform: Does the Labour Market Still Work for Everyone? [Henning Jørgensen and Mads Peter Klindt]  10. Building an Adequate but Sustainable Retirement Incomes System [Andrew Podger and Michael Keating]  11. Massaging the Market with Industrial Policy: Lessons from FYR Macedonia And Malaysia [Volker Treichel]  12. Government–Market Mixes for Health Care [Andrew Podger]  13. Balancing Efficiency and Equity in the Tax and Transfer System [Miranda Stewart and Peter Whiteford]  14. Inclusive Growth: Hybrid Policies into The Future [Glenn Withers]  15. Evidence-Based Policy Making in The Tropics: Are Developing Countries Different?[Stephen Howes, Ashlee Betteridge, Lawrence Sauss and Lhawang Ugyel]16. The Political Realities of Policy Design and Implementation[John Hewson]

O autorze

Mark Fabian is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy where he teaches economics for public policy and development economics. He conducts research into welfare and sustainable development at the intersection of philosophy and economics. His most recent published work was on long work hours in Australia, and his current projects concern how we can better integrate philosophical and psychological knowledge about happiness and wellbeing into public policy.　

Robert Breunig is former Director of the Crawford School of Public Policy where he teaches empirical public policy and director of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute. He is a frequent collaborator with the Australian government. He conducts research in three main areas: applied labour economics, policy impact evaluation and behavioural responses to the tax system. In recent work, he has studied the inter-generational transmission of dependence on government assistance; he has examined the relationship between women’s labour supply and childcare policy and studied optimal childcare subsidy policies; he has examined the complex relationship between outsourcing and innovation; and he has estimated taxpayer　responsiveness in the Australian tax system.