For nation-states, the contexts for developing and implementing policy have become more complex and demanding. Yet policy studies have not fully responded to the challenges and opportunities represented by these developments. Governance literature has drawn attention to a globalising and network-based policy world, but politics and the role of the state have been de-emphasised.
This book addresses this imbalance by reconsidering traditional policy-analytic concepts, and re-developing and extending new ones, in a melded approach defined as systemic institutionalism. This links policy with governance and the state and suggests how real-world issues might be substantively addressed.
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Preface
Reconsidering policy – our agenda
Reconsidering policy systems
Reconsidering institutions
Reconsidering the state
Reconsidering borders
Reconsidering advice and advisory systems
Reconsidering information
Reconsidering implementation
Reconsidering policy change
Reconsidering policy – our agenda revisited
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Brian Head is Professor of Policy Analysis at the University of Queensland. He has held senior roles in government and is widely published on public policy, social and environmental policy.