The Routledge Handbook of Policy Tools

ISBN-13: 9780367757748 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 640 str.

Michael Howlett

Opis

This handbook provides a unique, systematic and comprehensive overview from leading experts in the field of the policy-making tools deployed at all the phases of the policy process.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction  1. What is a Policy Tool? An Overview of the Tools Approach to Public Policy  2. The History of the Tools Approach in the Policy Sciences: Key Definitions and Problematics  3. Where Tools are Deployed in the Policy Process: Policy Instruments and the Policy Cycle  4. The Need to Understand and Integrate Procedural and Substantive Tools  Part 2: Basic Concepts  5. How Tools Work: Policy Instruments as Activators and Mechanisms  6. What Tools Do: Policy Targeting and Behaviour  7. Portfolios of Policy Tools: Types of Policy Mixes  8. Understanding Primary and Secondary Relationships Among Policy Tools in Policy Mixes  Part 3: Agenda-Setting Tools  9. Agenda-Setting Tools in Theory and Practice  10. Formal Agenda-Setting Government Tools: Periodic Evaluations and Reviews  11. Tools to Promote Popular Mobilization and Social Advocacy: Social Identities, Policy Programs, Careers, and Education  12: Consultation Tools and Agenda-Setting  13: Tools for Managing the Media: Monitoring, Branding and Messaging  Part 4: Policy Formulation Tools  14. Policy Formulation Tools: New Perspectives  15. Indicators and Measures as Policy Tools  16. A tools-based approach to understanding and optimizing policy advice in and beyond policy formulation  17. Tools for Structuring Policy Advice: Commissions of Inquiry and Task Forces as Policy Formulation Instruments  18. Collaboration as a Policy Tool in the Policy Formulation and Other Aspects of the Policy Process  Part 5: Decision-Making Tools  19. Supporting Decision-Making within the Policy Cycle: Techniques and Tools  20. Scenario Analysis, Forecasting and Backcasting as Policy Tools  21. Formal problem structuring tools and multi-criteria decision analysis  22. Simulation Modeling as a Policy Tool  23. Policy Experiments and Pilots as Tools for Decision-Making  Part 6: Policy Implementation Tools  24. The Organizational Tools of Government: The "Forgotten Fundamental"  25. Implementing Regulatory Tools: Regulatory Tools and the Use of Authority  26. Treasure Tools: Using Public Funds to Achieve Policy Objectives  27. Information as a Policy Tool: The Role of Government Communication  28. Non-State Market-Driven Tools: Capacity Challenges in Non-State Governance Contexts  Part 7: Policy Evaluation Tools  29. Theoretical Framework for Public Policy Evaluation: Investigative Designs and Outcomes in a Global Setting  30. Policy Evaluation Instruments: Tools for Learning  31. Tools in Internal and External Evaluations  32. Administrative Procedure as a Tool for Participatory and Efficient Public Governance  33. The Democratic Potential of Evaluation as a Policy Making Instrument: A Possibility or a Chimera?  Part 8: Selecting and Mixing Tools  34. Policy Tools and (New) Governance Arrangements: Policy Mixes and Their Effectiveness  35. Measuring Policy instrument interactions in policy mixes: Surveying the conceptual and methodological landscape  36. Policy Tools and the Attributes of Effectiveness: Spaces, Mixes and Instruments  37. Changing the Composition of Policy Mixes: Lock-In, Path Dependency, and the Sequencing of Policy Tools  38. Changing Policy Tools on the Fly: Calibrating Policy Instruments  Part 9: The Future of Policy Tools  39. The Future of Policy Tools: Past Trends and Current Directions  40. Collaboration as the Future of Organizational Tools  41. Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Regulatory Tools  42. The Future of Financial Tools: Will Social Impact Bonds Yield Results?  43. The Future of Informational Tools with Big Data Informatics: Opportunities and Challenges for Evidence-Based Policy-Making  44. The Future of Behavioural Tools in Public Policy

O autorze

Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, Canada.