What does policy making look like?

Описание: In this session Professor Paul Cairney, a Professor of Politics and Policy at the University of Stirling, will explore how academics and practitioners visualize policymaking. He will identify the benefits of using images to establish if we share the same understanding of policy processes.

For example, the classic ‘policy cycle’ image is well known in policy and academia despite not summing up what governments actually do. More realistic images may describe policymaking complexity more accurately, but do they also help practitioners to engage in policymaking?

Cairney will outline a series of images derived from policy process theories, to show how academics explain key aspects of policymaking with reference to metaphors, flow diagrams, and visualizations of data. He will then encourage participants to share images that they find useful to explain how they might engage effectively in policymaking.

Dr Paul Cairney is a Professor of Politics and Policy at the University of Stirling. His research interests are in comparative public policy, policy analysis, and policy theories, applied to UK and devolved government policy, and the use of evidence in policy and policymaking.

This event is a collaboration between London Policy and Strategy Network and Public Policy Design.

For more information, see the initial blog post and follow Cairney on twitter @Cairneypaul . The follow-up post can be found via Cairney’s blog.

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