What is it about?
This article is about policy design, but its focus is not on the designer or the government. Rather, it attempts to explore policy design from the perspective of the life world of citizens. Its key message is that in policy design 'puzzling' and 'powering' are inextricably entwined, but far from regretting this condition, it should be embraced as the only way to move on from problems as webs of undesirable situations to opportunities to improve citizens' lives.
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Perspectives
In 2010, I wrote "The Governance of Problems" as a contribution to bridging the gap between elite and citizen perspectives. In the same year, together with Hal Colebatch, I edited "Working for Policy", arguing that policy WORK is so much more than policy ANALYSIS. In this article both themes are joined. It allowed me to put together in one short article empirical research and normative reflection on the practice of public policy design published so far in Dutch only, my mother tongue. When Nick Turnbull generously offered me to participate in the production of a special issue of Public Policy and Administration on the theme of "Questioning Policy Design", I was happy to accept. Please, also read Hal Colebatch and Anna Durnovà & Eva Hejzlarovà and Nick Turnbull himself on the same topic in PPA's special issue.
Professor Robert Hoppe
Universiteit Twente
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This page is a summary of: Heuristics for practitioners of policy design: Rules-of-thumb for structuring unstructured problems, Public Policy and Administration, June 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0952076717709338.
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