Handbook of Policy Formulation

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
List of contributors
PART I INTRODUCTION: POLICY
FORMULATION AND THE
POLICY PROCESS
1. Policy formulation: where knowledge meets power in the policy process
2. The central conundrums of policy formulation: ill-structured problems and uncertainty
3. Policy formulation as policy work: developing options for government
4. Positive and negative feedback in policy formulation
PART II WHAT IS FORMULATED: CHOOSING POLICY INSTRUMENTS AND POLICY GOALS
5. Problem delimitation in policy formulation
6. Policy tools and their role in policy formulation: dealing with procedural and substantive instruments
7. Patching versus packaging in policy formulation: assessing policy portfolio design
8. The elements of effective program design: a two-level analysis
PART III 
FORMAL AND INFORMAL ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES IN POLICY FORMULATION
9. Formal policy appraisal techniques and policy formulation
10. Operationalizing information: measures and indicators in policy formulation
11. Anticipation tools in policy formulation: forecasting, foresight and implications for policy planning
12. The role of public participation and deliberationin policy formulation
PART IV 
POLICY ADVICE AND THE POLICY FORMULATION PROCESS
13. Policy advice and policy advisory systems in policy formulation
14. The organization of policy formulation
15. Knowledge brokers and policy advice in policy 
formulation
16. Policy entrepreneurs and policy formulation
PART V 
FORMULATING POLICY PROBLEMS
17. Issue expertise in policymaking
18. Expert networks and epistemic communities: articulating knowledge and collective entrepreneurship
19. Framing the target in policy formulation: the 
importance of social constructions
20. Consultants and policy formulation
PART VI 
FORMULATING POLICY SOLUTIONS
21. Policy instrument constituencies
22. Think tanks, politics and the policy-making 
process: catalysts for ideas and action
23. Exogeneity and convergence in policy formulation: contested theories, approaches and perspectives
24. Behavioral aspects of policy formulation: experiments, behavioral insights, nudges
PART VII 
THE POLITICS OF POLICY FORMULATION
25. Policy paradigms and the formulation process
26. The politics of policy formulation: overcoming subsystem dynamics
27. The impact of political parties, executives and political staff on policy formulation
28. Mechanisms of influence: interest groups, lobbyists and policy formulation
PART VIII 
TRENDS AND PATTERNS OF POLICY FORMULATION
29. Trends towards the externalization and politicization of policy advice in policy formulation
30. Trends towards evidence-based 
policy formulation
31. The changing role of the public in policy formulation: from mass media to social media
32. Policy overreaction doctrine: from ideal-type to context-sensitive solution in times of crisis
Index