Governments are increasingly turning to public sector innovation (PSI) labs to take new
approaches to policy and service design. This turn towards PSI labs, which has accelerated …

This book takes a unique approach to policy, looking not at particular fields or at what
governments are doing, but looking more generally at the concept of policy. This approach …

As the complexity of policy problems is increasingly recognized, and participatory
approaches gain popularity, policy workers are applying different methods to engage a wide …

The mainstream policy literature identifies a number of activities as part of 'policy-
making':'policy analysis','policy advice','decision-making', and perhaps also …

While policy design is a relatively recent term in the social science literature, the concept
itself is ancient. The modernist incarnation, from the mid-20th century onwards, is grounded …

The attention for the use of evidence in the policy process has received renewed attention in
recent years with explicit calls for 'evidence-based policy'(EBP). This idea is not new and …

Though they serve in many roles and under many titles, no one doubts that political staffs
now wield substantial influence in the making of government policy. Backrooms and Beyond …

Governance is a term which is widely, but not always precisely, used, and this article seeks
to clarify what the term is being used to mean. In particular, it is concerned with whether it …

Abstract Citizens'/community juries [CJs] engage members of the public in policy decision-
making processes. CJs can be employed to develop policy responses to health problems …

Abstract Design has emerged as a discipline equipped to tackle the complex problems of
the 21st century, primarily for its human-centered and experimentation approach and …