Designing institutions for designing policy

Policy design has returned to the centre of discussions of public policy, both for academics and practitioners. With that interest in policy design has come an interest in organisations and institutions that will do the designing, with much of the interest being in structures such as policy laborato...

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Published in:Policy and politics 2020-01, Vol.48 (1), p.131-147
Main Author: Peters, B Guy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic staff
Barriers
Barriers To Policy Design
Citizens
Collaboration
Innovation
Innovations
Institutions
Interest groups
Laboratories
Policy Design
Policy Laboratories
Public policy
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Summary:Policy design has returned to the centre of discussions of public policy, both for academics and practitioners. With that interest in policy design has come an interest in organisations and institutions that will do the designing, with much of the interest being in structures such as policy laboratories that attempt to foster innovation. These organisations tend to exist outside government hierarchies and support collaborative designing with stakeholders and citizens. This paper examines the potential of these structures from an organisational perspective. Although they do offer great promise as sources of innovation they also confront a number of institutional barriers and dilemmas. This paper focuses on those barriers and dilemmas, as well as some possible means of overcoming them.
ISSN:0305-5736
1470-8442
DOI:10.1332/030557319X15579230420090