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DIAC Session 1, November 18 2010 Policy issues & players

DIAC Session 1, November 18 2010 Policy issues & players. Professor Adam Graycar Centre for Policy Innovation. Policy combines government Vision Actions Outcomes Policy is what government choose to do or not do. Agreement on a problem Prospect for a solution

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DIAC Session 1, November 18 2010 Policy issues & players

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  1. DIAC Session 1, November 18 2010Policy issues & players ProfessorAdam Graycar Centre for Policy Innovation

  2. Policy combines government • Vision • Actions • Outcomes • Policy is what government choose to do or not do adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  3. Agreement on a problem • Prospect for a solution • How important, how urgent • Initiating/ responding? • Know answers/ don’t know • Opportunity/ old sore adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  4. Conditions / problems • What is routine • What is exceptional adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  5. Who is in charge? • Who delivers? • Assess capacity/ willingness to be in charge and to deliver adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  6. When does a private problem become a public problem? adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  7. Hierarchy of government interventions? • Information • Regulate/mandate • Subsidise • Purchase • Provide • World Bank adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  8. Role of government? • Is this a function for government, the market, individuals or families, or charitable activity? • If a mixture, are the other players meeting their share (e.g. through user charges)? • Is this the responsibility of the Commonwealth, or of the states or local government? • Is there serious risk of government failure if it took on the responsibility? adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  9. Boundaries • Complexity • Accountability adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  10. Key points in scoping problems • Urgent/ important • Who sees problem - who cares? • Prospects for a solution • Initiating/ responding • Who’s in charge • What’s routine, what’s not • Does problem match service system adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  11. Problems did not match service systems • Mismatch of problems and opportunity for solutions adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  12. UK Cabinet Office : policy should be / include Inclusive Evidence Based Evaluation Review Learns Lessons • Forward Looking • Outward Looking • Innovative and Creative • Joined Up adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  13. Mark Moore’s Strategic Triangle Legitimacy& Support Operational Capabilities Public Value adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  14. Scott/Baehler’s Policy Work Triangle adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  15. PolicyCycle (Reference: Althaus, Bridgman, Davis, 2007) adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  16. Bardach’s eightfold path of policy analysis adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  17. Policy development in the real world Environmentaldisaster Economic crisis etc Media story of unmet need Media story re poor treatment of program client Adverse ANAO Report Ongoing policy research, statistics, review adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  18. The science of ‘muddling through’ • Must start from where you are • Agreeing on what to do is often easier than agreeing on the reasons • Incremental change has less risk and is easy to adjust • Even radical change usually requires a series of steps • BUT • Incrementalism or inertia? • Risk of ad hoc changes, lost opportunities etc • Lindblom/Dror debate from 1959 through 1960s adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

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