Policy design and non-design: Discerning the content of policy packaging, patching, stretching and layering

• Main Authors: CAPANO, Giliberto, MUKHERJEE, Ishani
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3395
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The conditions for policy design usually do not allow much freedom for governmental actions: thus, notable policy reforms that involve the significant and deep redesign of aspects of the existing system, are rare, even if they can occur. In fact, policy-makers are usually constrained by vested interests and policy legacies that do not allow radical changes but can allow the design of different degrees of potential changes in the actual set of policy tools and policy goals. In this chapter, we attempt to organize the analytical tools through which the characteristics of policy design can be grasped in terms of both the content of design (more or less incremental; more or less coherent and congruent) and the mode of design (that is, the way through which the content of design is practically designed).