1st Edition
Policy as Practice Making Sense of Governing
1. Introduction
H.K. Colebatch and Calista Castles
2. Policy as a Process
H.K. Colebatch
3. Problematization in school education policy: underperformance and parent hyperactivity
Sarah Warner
4. Local Governments as Policy Shapers
Sarah de Vries
5. It’s just the way we do things around here – how policy worlds influence the implementation of policies
Prudence R Brown
6. The evidence-base of policy: changes in the use of data, information, and knowledge within government
Fiona McKenzie
7. When government is not the only option for setting public performance standards and ensuring compliance
Richard Curtain
8. Evaluation as a governing practice: Judging the outcomes of policy and practice
Calista Castles
9. Contested viewpoints on the management of social problems: The case the Australian Child Support Scheme
Kay Cook
10. Performing the Policy Cycle
Cosmo Howard
11. Public value and complex problems in pluralistic settings and the Meriba Omasker Kaziw Kazipa (For our Children’s Children) Act 2020
Prudence R Brown and Sarah Warner
12. Stocktake and future agenda
H.K. Colebatch and Calista Castles
Biography
H.K. Colebatch has taught and researched in the field of public policy and administration in Australia, Papua New Guinea, East Africa, Southeast Asia and Europe for over four decades.
Calista Castles is an Adjunct Fellow and a social researcher in mental health theory and practice at Griffith University. She has worked in government and non-government organisations as a consultant.
"Policy as Practice brings fresh perspectives to the complexity of making and implementing policy. Stressing the importance of problem identification and framing, it moves beyond didactic instrumental management as the fundamental tool of the policy enterprise." -- Adam Graycar, Professor of Public Policy, University of Adelaide, Australia
