Evidence for Public Policy Design How to Learn from Best Practice [Hardcover]

Learning from the successes and failures of others is a necessity in the field of public sector innovation. This book develops guidelines for policymakers, practitioners and policy analysts to understand what drives policy success and to transfer innovations from a source case to a target case with a view to assisting effective policy design.Introduction 1. The diffusion of best practices in the public sector 2. The diffusion of the Standard Cost Model 3. The Standard Cost Model in the Netherlands 4. The transfer of the Standard Cost Model in Denmark 5.What emerges from the case studies? Conclusion

Paola Coletti has a PhD in public policy Analysis at university of Pavia. She received a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at Polytechnic of Milan in Public Policy Analysis (2007-2010). Her scientific interests include public policy analysis, with specific reference to the theories and methods for decision analysis and evaluation, public administration and local government.