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Learning Policy, Doing Policy Interactions Between Public Policy Theory, Practice and Teaching.

When it comes to policymaking, public servants have traditionally learned 'on the job', with practical experience and tacit knowledge valued over theory-based learning and academic analysis. Yet increasing numbers of public servants are undertaking policy training through postgraduate qual...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mercer, Trish
Otros Autores: Ayres, Russell, Head, Brian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Canberra : ANU Press, 2021.
Colección:Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Contributors
  • Part 1. Theorising, teaching and learning about policymaking
  • 1. Public policy theory, practice and teaching: Investigating the interactions
  • 2. A quixotic quest? Making theory speak to practice
  • 3. What can policy theory offer busy practitioners? Investigating the Australian experience
  • 4. Delivering public policy programs to senior executives in government-the Australia and New Zealand School of Government 2002-18
  • 5. How do policy professionals in New Zealand use academic research in their work?
  • 6. The dilemmas of managing parliament: Promoting awareness of public management theories to parliamentary administrators
  • Part 2. Putting policymaking theory into practice
  • 7. Public policy processes in Australia: Reflections from experience
  • 8. Using the policy cycle: Practice into theory and back again
  • 9. Succeeding and failing in crafting environment policy: Can public policy theories help?
  • 10. Understanding the policymaking enterprise: Foucault among the bureaucrats
  • 11. The practical realities of policy on the run: A practitioner's response to academic policy frameworks
  • 12. Documenting the link between policy theory and practice in a government department: A map of sea without any land
  • Part 3. How can theory better inform practice and vice versa?
  • 13. Taking lessons from policy theory into practice
  • 14. Synthesising models, theories and frameworks for public policy: Implications for the future
  • 15. Public policy theory, practice and skills: Advancing the debate