Creating and Implementing Public Policy: Cross-sectoral debates [Hardcover]

Introduction - Crossing boundaries for better public policy  Part I: Understanding the Policy Process  1. Lost in Translation: Knowledge, policy, politics and power  2. Opening Policy Windows with Evidence and Citizen Engagement: Addressing the social determinants of health inequalities  3. Policy Cycle Models: Are we throwing the baby out with the bath water?  4. Influencing Policy from Inside and Outside of Government  Part II: Influencing Policy  5. Influencing Policy: Lessons from the health sector  6. Using Metrics for Policy Change  7. Evidence Based Policy: Why and how?  8. Using a Randomised Trial to Evaluate an Innovative Homelessness Intervention: The J2SI Pilot  9. Producing Change: An integrated model of social services, research and public policy advocacy  Part III: Disrupting Business as Usual  10. The Effects of Hybridity on Local Governance: The case of social enterprise  11. How Better Methods for Coping with Uncertainty and Ambiguity can Strengthen Government-civil Society Collaboration  12. Performance Budgeting: The power to persuade, control or deceive?  13. Creating Joined-up Government: Challenging intuitive logic  14. Approaching Collaboration in Public Policy: Agency and efficacy  Conclusion - Emerging themes and important lessons for progressing cross sectoral policy design and implementation: a discussion

In order to address major social policy problems, governments need to break down sectoral barriers and create better working relationships between practitioners, policymakers and researchers. Currently, major blockages exist, and stereotypes abound. Academics are seen as out-of-touch and unresponsive, policymakers are perceived to be justifying pollį