The Australian policy handbook : a practical guide to the policy-making process
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The Australian policy handbook : a practical guide to the policy-making process
Allen & Unwin, 2018
6th ed.
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Includes index
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Description
Public policy permeates every aspect of our lives. It is the stuff of government, justifying taxes, driving legislation, and shaping our social services. Public policy gives us roads, railways and airports, emergency services, industry development, and natural resource management. While politicians make the decisions, public servants provide analysis and support for those choices. Drawing on their extensive practical experience, the authors outline the processes used in making public policy. They systematically explain the relationships between political decision-makers, public service advisers, other community participants, and those charged with implementing the programs that result. The sixth edition of this widely used introduction is fully updated, and includes new material on the professionalisation of politicians, the role of opposition members, loss of corporate memory in the public service, addressing systemic policy failure, nudge economics and the impact of social media and the sharing economy on policy making and government.
Table of Contents
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Introduction: Why The Australian Policy Handbook?
1. Why policy matters
2. The institutions of public policy
3. A policy cycle
4. Identifying issues
5. Policy analysis
6. Policy instruments
7. Consultation
8. Coordination
9. Decision
10. Implementation
11. Evaluation
12. Managing the policy process
13. When policies succeed and fail
Appendix: Checklists for policy development
Glossary
References
Index
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