Learning Policy, Doing Policy: Interactions between Public Policy Theory, Practice and Teaching book cover
Business · 2021 · en

Learning Policy, Doing Policy: Interactions between Public Policy Theory, Practice and Teaching

by Trish Mercer, Russell Ayres, Brian Head

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This collection asks how public policy research, professional practice and teaching can inform one another. Academics and experienced public servants examine the usefulness of policy theories for people working within government, drawing particularly on Australian and New Zealand experience.

Chapters explore executive education, the use of academic research, parliamentary administration, policy cycles and the pressures of making decisions while work is already under way. Case studies and practitioner reflections test where formal models clarify a problem and where circumstances require adaptation. The closing section considers how theories and professional skills can be brought together more effectively.