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  • Handbook of Policy Advice

    Edited by Michael Howlett, Ishani Mukherjee ...
    Series series Handbooks of Research on Public Policy series
    This timely Handbook examines the background, organization and evolution of policy advice and expertise in contemporary government. Chapters in the book set out and critically re-evaluate conventional assumptions about the role of policy advisors and advice in policy-making in an era when increasing new technologies, political polarization and contestation have mounted challenges to traditional ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Policy Learning and Policy Failure

    by Michael Howlett, Sreeja Nair, Adrian Kay, Malcolm Bird, Joshua Newman, Diane Stone, Sarah Giest ...
    Series series New Perspectives in Policy and Politics
    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 ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Studying Public Policy

    Connecting Theory to Practice

    by Michael Howlett, M Ramesh, Anthony Perl ...
    Now in its fifth edition, this established text offers a comprehensive synthesis of policymaking theory and analysis for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. The book integrates foundational and contemporary scholarship through global examples that develop comparative analytical skills. Real-world case examples extend theoretical insights into practice. Its three-part structure builds ... Read more

    $55.19 CAD

  • Designing Public Policies

    Principles and Instruments

    by Michael Howlett ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
    The third edition of this highly regarded book provides a concise and accessible introduction to the principles and elements of policy design in contemporary governance. It examines in detail the range of substantive and procedural policy instruments that together comprise the toolbox from which governments choose tools to resolve policy problems and the principles and practices that lead to their ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Canadian Public Policy

    Selected Studies in Process and Style

    by Michael Howlett ...
    Studies of public policy in Canada are traditionally narrow, focusing on a particular policy area or jurisdiction without giving consideration to the significant procedural commonalities that can be identified across the public policy spectrum. Canadian Public Policy provides the first comprehensive, theoretically informed, empirical evaluation of the development of public policy in Canada. It ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • The Policy Design Primer

    Choosing the Right Tools for the Job

    by Michael Howlett ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
    The Policy Design Primer is a concise and practical introduction to the principles and elements of policy design in contemporary governance. Guiding students through the study of the instruments used by governments in carrying out their tasks, adapting to, and altering their environments, this book:Examines the range of substantive and procedural policy instruments that together comprise the ... Read more

    Was $81.99 CAD Now $72.82 CAD

  • Bad Public Policy

    Malignity, Volatility and the Inherent Vices of Policymaking

    by Michael Howlett, Ching Leong, Tim Legrand ...
    Series series Elements in Public Policy
    Policy studies assume the existence of baseline parameters – such as honest governments doing their best to create public value, publics responding in good faith, and both parties relying on a policy-making process that aligns with the public interest. In such circumstances, policy goals are expected to be produced through mechanisms in which the public can articulate its preferences and policy ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Dictionary of Policy Design

    by Michael Howlett, Alexander Howlett ...
    This authoritative Dictionary provides a detailed guide to the terminology and vocabulary used in policy design. Unpacking this crucial area of policy making, it outlines the topics that are central to the theoretical and practical aspects of the discipline.With an accessible structure, the Dictionary showcases extensive lists of policy tools, actors involved in design work and processes such as ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Policy Styles and Policy-Making

    Exploring the Linkages

    Edited by Michael Howlett, Jale Tosun ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
    Richardson et al.’s respected and seminal Policy Styles in Western Europe (1982) shed valuable light on how countries tend to establish long-term and distinctive ways to make policies that transcend short-term imperatives and issues. This follow-up volume updates those arguments and significantly expands the coverage, consisting of 16 carefully selected country-level case studies from around the ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Policy Work in Canada

    Professional Practices and Analytical Capacities

    Edited by Michael Howlett, Adam Wellstead, Jonathan Craft ...
    Policy Work in Canada is an in-depth study into the levels of analytical capacity found within the federal and provincial governments as well as the non-governmental sector. By focusing on the individuals who craft public policy in Canada, this collection of eighteen chapters broadens and deepens our understanding of policy development in Canada.The contributors to this volume empirically examine ... Read more

    $71.19 CAD

  • Policy Success in Canada

    Cases, Lessons, Challenges

    Edited by Evert Lindquist, Michael Howlett, Grace Skogstad, Paul t' Hart, Geneviève Tellier ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In Canada many public projects, programs, and services perform well, and many are very successful. However, these cases are consistently underexposed and understudied in the ... Read more

    $104.19 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Policy Advisory Systems

    Edited by Giliberto Capano, Jonathan Craft, Michael Howlett ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This handbook comprehensively reflects, presents and summarises both first and second wave scholarship into policy advisory systems (PAS). Bringing together leading scholars to engage persistent as well as emergent themes, the handbook provides a single volume highlighting both classic and new directions for PAS research, summarising both existing knowledge and outlining possible future findings ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD