The Routledge Handbook of Policy Tools

Herausgeber: Howlett, Michael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge International Handbooks
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 598
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 181mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1202g
• ISBN-13: 9780367757748
• ISBN-10: 0367757745
• Artikelnr.: 64037030

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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