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Book SynopsisThis forward-thinking book examines the future of public policy as a discipline, both as it is taught and as it is practiced. Critically assessing the limits of current theories and approaches, leading scholars in the field highlight new models and perspectives.
Chapters present data on what is taught in policy schools, using survey results from schools of public policy to assess pedagogical scope and adequacy. The book also considers policy work in government, and whether theory matches practice. Reflecting on the future of policy making, policy advice, implementation and governance in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it analyses how policy issues are now framed and debated, the range of available tools, and how public compliance and popular support have been eroded by the crisis.
This book will be an essential guide to re-thinking the field of public policy and its theories, methods, and applications. It will help teachers, students, public managers and policy-makers navigate the new, turbulent governance landscape that lies ahead.
Trade Review‘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.’Table of ContentsContents: Preface x 1 Introduction: futures, now and then 1 Anis Ben Brik and Leslie A. Pal 2 Embracing the future of the policy sciences: big data in pedagogy and practice 9 Nihit Goyal, Ola G. El-Taliawi and Michael Howlett 3 Neo-professionalization of the civil service: an institutional perspective on policy studies education 28 Kris Hartley and Norainie Ahmad 4 Policy science beyond self-congratulatory virtue signalling: matching supply and demand in the scholarship, pedagogy and purpose of the policy enterprise 51 Michael Howlett and Darryl S. L. Jarvis 5 Public policy education in the non-Western world: changing context and content 70 Sreeja Nair, Ola G. El-Taliawi and Zeger Van der Wal 6 Disaster risk reduction and the development narrative: towards a new public policy epistemic 85 Glen Kuecker and Kris Hartley 7 Policy practices: a bridge between policy theory and empirical research 103 Arnošt Veselý 8 Policy expertise and policy markets: challenges for tackling complex problems in turbulent times 121 Brian W. Head 9 Back to the future: learning from the evolution of global sustainability governance 140 Andreas Rechkemmer 10 What is a policy scholar for? 163 Claire A. Dunlop and Claudio M. Radaelli Conclusion. Future tense: a new grammar for the policy sciences? 180 Leslie A. Pal and Anis Ben Brik Index 204
