Policy-Making As Designing: The Added Value Of Design Thinking For Public Administration And Public Policy (New Perspectives In Policy And Politics)

The articles on which Chapters 4, 5 and 6 are based are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Design approaches to policy-making have gained increasing popularity among policy makers in recent years. First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this book presents original critical reflections on the value of design approaches and how they relate to the classical idea of public administration as a design science, with a new concluding chapter. Contributors consider the potential, challenges and applications of design approaches and distinguish between three methods currently characterising the discipline: design as optimisation, design as exploration and design as co-creation. Developing the dialogue around public administration as a design science, this collection explores how a more 'designerly' way of thinking can improve public administration and public policy.

• | Author: Arwin van Buuren, Jenny M. Lewis, B. Guy Peters
• | Publisher: Policy Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 27, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 244 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1447365933
• | ISBN-13: 9781447365938