Successful Public Policy. Lessons from Australia and New Zealand
In Australia and New Zealand, many public projects, programs and services perform well. But these cases are consistently underexposed and understudied. We cannot properly ‘see’—let alone recognise and explain—variations in government performance when media, political and academic discourses are saturated with accounts of their shortcomings and failures, but are next to silent on their achievements. , edited by Joannah Luetjens and Paul `t Hart from the Utrecht University School of Governance (USG), together with Michael Mintrom (Monash University, Australia and New Zealand School of Government), helps to turn that tide.
The book aims to reset the agenda for teaching, research and dialogue on public policy performance. This is done through a series of close-up, in-depth and carefully chosen case study accounts of the genesis and evolution of stand-out public policy achievements, across a range of sectors within Australia and New Zealand. Through these accounts, written by experts from both countries, we engage with the conceptual, methodological and theoretical challenges that have plagued extant research seeking to evaluate, explain and design successful public policy.
Successful Public Governance
Studies of public policy successes are rare—not just in Australia and New Zealand, but the world over. Nevertheless, Successful Public Policy is embedded in a broader project exploring policy successes globally: .
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is published by the Australian National University Press. Free downloads are available on the website.
It’s companion volume, (edited by Paul ‘t Hart and Mallory Compton from Utrecht University School of Governance), will be published in September 2019 by Oxford University Press.
In a blogpost on the editors highlight six ingredients of successful public policy while giving clear examples.