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"While it is essential to have a bird’s eye view of all topics in public policy analysis and formulation, it is equally important to acquire practical toolkits that can bring immediate benefit to future employers." Fellow Prof. Prajapati Trivedi has useful tips in this week's Fellow Spotlight: https://lnkd.in/eZ4YqFRw

📢 Attention Policy Makers and Scholars! Policy Studies Journal invites submissions for a Special Issue focusing on Policy Advisory Systems. Explore how these systems shape policy outcomes and contribute to effective governance by contributing your research and insights to this pivotal issue! Information here: https://lnkd.in/g2Mn9Z6u #PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal

Drowning in information for your next policy analysis? Policy Commons offers a lifeline! Explore millions of pages of valuable grey literature – research from think tanks & gov't bodies – often overlooked but crucial for informed decision-making. #PolicyResearch #GreyLiterature https://ow.ly/TP7650Rm12o

Policy development under a new government: Clare Dobson tells us what you need to know.

Policy development under a new government: Clare Dobson tells us what you need to know.

Sharing my second read for this year, which is Sir Michael Barber's book, 'How to Run a Government: So That Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy'. I first learned about the concept of 'deliverology' in a public management class and finally got around to reading Barber's version of how the theory practically came to emergence in the UK. I found the book to be an interesting take on the integration of management theories in public governance roles. The parts that stood out the most were his lessons on how best to bridge gaps between 'policy development' and 'implementation'. Additionally, as a career bureaucrat, the book is rife with real-life examples, experiences and anecdotes, which makes an otherwise dry subject of political science and governance much more interactive and engaging.  https://lnkd.in/eQMT6Up3

Out as OA at Journal of Public Policy - "The purpose of policy portfolios: design, intention, and logic" by Andrea Migone and Michael Howlett https://buff.ly/3Oe4di0 Proposes a qualitative method of assessing policy mix content.

💡 How could your research impact policy? 🤝 What steps can you take to start engaging policymakers? 📃 What does the new government mean for academic policy engagement? If you're interested in learning more and getting tips to start framing your own research in policy, join our webinar on Wednesday. There's lots of support available here at Surrey to get you started! Introduction to Policy Engagement: engaging with the new government Wednesday 9th October, 2-3pm Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/ePtgFpC5 #SurreyPolicyNetwork #policyengagement

For over a decade, I had the chance to shape public policies covering a wide range of socio-economic topics, at various levels including corporate, regional, national, and supra-national. If I were to summarize the key pre-requisites for a sound policy recommendation, I would list the following: 1- Be specific and tangible about the end outcomes sought from the policy. 2- Build a thorough and deep understanding of the barriers hampering these outcomes from materializing without government intervention. 3- Build optionality for the strategic roadmap around no-regret moves and other moves subject to constraints, conditionality, and strategic trade-offs. 4- Ensure that each policy measure is actionable and has the means of its ambition. 5- Check coherence and sufficiency within the policy and with other policies.

Stages of #public #policymaking 1.Issue Identification Whether an issue brought to policymakers attention is a condition that requires public policy response 2.Problem Defination Why the issue exists? What seem to be causing the problem? 3.Specification of Alternatives Determining different policy proposals to solve the problem. Specifying what are the preferred outcomes and the likely obstacles and the resources required for each alternative 4.Policy Selection The decision to which route to take. 5.Implementation Policy is interpreted and applied in specific contexts. 6.Evaluation After some time, new information is gathered and looking at the results and figuring out to what extent the problem is actually fixed. Source: Understanding the Political World:An Inteoduction to Political Science, James N.Danziger , 11th Edition, pg: 242-243 Note: Obviously these are ideal stages of policymaking meaning in the “real world” these stages may be ommitted, forgotten , neglected, or not given enough care to it at all. Additionally, it is important to remember that these are generalization, specific policy areas may require specific adjustments to the process