Policy Learning and Policy Failure

Claire Dunlop, Dunlop, Claire, Claire A. Dunlop

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781447352006
• eBook ISBN: 9781447352020
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• List of abbreviations
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Policy learning and policy failure: definitions, dimensions and intersections1
• 2 Pathologies of policy learning: what are they and how do they contribute to policy failure?
• 3 Overcoming the failure of ‘silicon somewheres’: learning in policy transfer processes
• 4 Between policy failure and policy success: bricolage, experimentalism and translation in policy transfer
• 5 British Columbia’s fast ferries and Sydney’s Airport Link: partisan barriers to learning from policy failure
• 6 Policy failures, policy learning and institutional change: the case of Australian health insurance policy change
• 7 Policy myopia as a source of policy failure: adaptation and policy learning under deep uncertainty
• Index