Policy Press

Policy Learning and Policy Failure

Edited by Claire A. Dunlop

Published

Jan 15, 2020

Page count

170 pages

Browse the series

New Perspectives in Policy and Politics

ISBN

978-1447352006

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Jan 15, 2020

Page count

170 pages

Browse the series

New Perspectives in Policy and Politics

ISBN

978-1447352020

Dimensions

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Jan 15, 2020

Page count

170 pages

Browse the series

New Perspectives in Policy and Politics

ISBN

978-1447352020

Dimensions

Imprint

Policy Press
Policy Learning and Policy Failure

First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this updated volume explores policy failures and the valuable opportunities for learning that they offer.

Policy successes and failures offer important lessons for public officials, but often they do not learn from these experiences. The studies in this volume investigate this broken link. The book defines policy learning and failure and organises the main studies in these fields along the key dimensions of processes, products and analytical levels. Drawing together a range of experts in the field, the volume sketches a research agenda linking policy scholars with policy practice.

Claire A. Dunlop is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Exeter, UK. A public policy and administration scholar, her main fields of interest include the politics of expertise and knowledge utilization; risk governance; policy learning and analysis; impact assessment; and policy narratives.

Policy learning and policy failure: definitions, dimensions and intersections ~ Claire A. Dunlop

Pathologies of policy learning: what are they and how do they contribute to policy failure? ~ Claire A. Dunlop

Overcoming the failure of 'silicon somewheres': learning in policy transfer processes ~ Sarah Giest

Between policy failure and policy success: bricolage, experimentalism and translation in policy transfer ~ Diane Stone

British Columbia's fast ferries and Sydney's Airport Link: partisan barriers to learning from policy failure ~ Joshua Newman and Malcolm G. Bird

Policy failures, policy learning and institutional change: the case of Australian health insurance policy change ~ Adrian Kay

Policy myopia as a source of policy failure: adaptation and policy learning under deep uncertainty ~ Sreeja Nair and Michael Howlett