Policy Design and Non-Design: Towards a Spectrum of Policy Formulation Types

Policy Design and Non-Design: Towards a Spectrum of Policy Formulation Types. Howlett, M. & Mukherjee, I. Technical Report No. 14-11, 2014. Public policies are the result of efforts made by governments to alter aspects of behaviour—both that of their own agents and of society at large—in order to carry out some end or purpose. They are comprised of arrangements of policy goals and policy means matched through some decision-making process. These policy-making efforts can be more, or less, systematic in attempting to match ends and means in a logical fashion or can result from much less systematic processes. “Policy design” implies a knowledge-based process in which the choice of means or mechanisms through which policy goals are given effect follows a logical process of inference from known or learned relationships between means and outcomes. This includes both design in which means are selected in accordance with experience and knowledge and that in which principles and relationships are incorrectly or only partially articulated or understood. Policy decisions can be careful and deliberate in attempting to best resolve a problem or can be highly contingent and driven by situational logics. Decisions stemming from bargaining or opportunism can also be distinguished from those which result from careful analysis and assessment. This article considers both modes and formulates a spectrum of policy formulation types between “design” and “non-design” which helps clarify the nature of each type and the likelihood of each unfolding.

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@techreport{howlett_policy_2014-3,
	title = {Policy {Design} and {Non}-{Design}: {Towards} a {Spectrum} of {Policy} {Formulation} {Types}},
	copyright = {All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).  Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.  Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.  Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.},
	shorttitle = {Policy {Design} and {Non}-{Design}},
	url = {http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2461087},
	abstract = {Policy Design and Non-Design: Towards a Spectrum of Policy Formulation Types},
	language = {en},
	number = {No. 14-11},
	urldate = {2014-11-13},
	author = {Howlett, Michael and Mukherjee, Ishani},
	year = {2014},
	note = {Public policies are the result of efforts made by governments to alter aspects of behaviour—both that of their own agents and of society at large—in order to carry out some end or purpose. They are comprised of arrangements of policy goals and policy means matched through some decision-making process. These policy-making efforts can be more, or less, systematic in attempting to match ends and means in a logical fashion or can result from much less systematic processes. “Policy design” implies a knowledge-based process in which the choice of means or mechanisms through which policy goals are given effect follows a logical process of inference from known or learned relationships between means and outcomes. This includes both design in which means are selected in accordance with experience and knowledge and that in which principles and relationships are incorrectly or only partially articulated or understood. Policy decisions can be careful and deliberate in attempting to best resolve a problem or can be highly contingent and driven by situational logics. Decisions stemming from bargaining or opportunism can also be distinguished from those which result from careful analysis and assessment. This article considers both modes and formulates a spectrum of policy formulation types between “design” and “non-design” which helps clarify the nature of each type and the likelihood of each unfolding.},
	keywords = {non-design, policy design, Public policy}
}

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