Not just steering but weaving: Relevant knowledge and the craft of building policy capacity and coherence

Australian Journal of Public Administration

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-57

  Parsons, Wayne ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842814231     PISSN: 03136647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8500.2004.00358.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (79)

1. Adams, D & Wiseman, J 2003 'Navigating the future: A case study of growing Victoria together', AJPA 62(2): 11-23.
2. Anderson, G 1996 'The new focus on the policy capacity of the federal government', Canadian Public Administration, 39(4):469-88.
3. Aucoin, P 2003 'The public services as a learning organisation', paper for Canadian Centre for Management Development, «http://www.ccmd-ccg.gc. ca/research/publications».
4. Bakvis, H 2000 'Rebuilding policy capacity in the era of the fiscal dividend,' Governance, 13(1):71-104.
5. Bardach, E 1998 Getting Agencies to Work Together: The Practice and Theory of Managerial Craftmanship, Brookings, Washington.
6. Baumard, P 1999 Tacit Knowledge in Organisations, Sage, London.
7. Bell, S & N Carr 2002 'The governance capacity of the Australian state', in S Bell ed. Economic Governance and Institutional Dynamics, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
8. Bentley, T 2002 'Letting go: Complexity, individualism and the Left', Renewal, 10(1): 9-26.
9. Bevir, M & RAW Rhodes 2003 Interpreting British Governance, Routledge, London.
10. Cabinet Office 1999a Modernising Government, Cmnd 4310, Cabinet Office, London.
11. Cabinet Office 1999b Professional Policymaking in the 21st Century, Cabinet Office, London.
12. Chapman, J 2002 Systems Failure: Why Government Must Learn to Think Differently, Demos, London. Club of Rome 2003 «www.clubofrome.org/about/ methodology.php».
13. Corry, D & G Stoker 2002 New Localism: Refashioning the New Local-Central Relationship, New Local Government Network, London.
14. Curtain, R 2000 'Good public policy making: How Australia fares,' Agenda: A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, 8(1):33-46.
15. Davis, G & M Keating eds 2000 The Future of Governance, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
16. Davis, G 2000 'Policy capacity and the future of governance', in G Davis & M Keating eds The Future of Governance, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
17. Di Francesco, M 2001 'Process not outcomes in new public management? Policy coherence in Australian government', The Drawing Board: An Australian Review of Public Affairs, 1(3): 103-16.
18. Dror, Y 2001 The Capacity to Govern: A Report to the Club of Rome, Frank Cass, London.
19. Dryzek, JS 1996 'The informal logic of institutional design', in RE Goodin ed. The Theory of Institutional Design, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
20. Foster, CD & FJ Plowden 1996 The State Under Stress: Can the Hollow State be Good Government?, Open University Press, Buckingham.
21. Flyvbjerg, B 1998 Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
22. Flyvbjerg, B 2001 Making Social Science Matter, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
23. Giddens, A 1986 Central Problems in Social Theory, Macmillan, London.
24. Giddens, A 1999 Reith Lectures: «www.lse.ac.uk/giddens/reith_99/ week1/lecturel.htm».
25. Hajer, MA & H Wagenaar eds 2003 Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
26. Hajer, MA & H Wagenaar, 2003a 'Introduction', in MA Hajer & H Wagenaar eds Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
27. Healey P, C de Magalhaes, A Madanipour & J Pendlebury 2003 'Place, identity and local politics: Analysing initiatives in deliberative governance', in MA Hajer & H Wagenaar eds Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
28. Hess, M & D Adams 2002 'Knowing and skilling in contemporary public administration', AJPA, 61(4):68-77.
29. Homer-Dixon, T 2000 The Ingenuity Gap: How Can We Solve the Problems of the Future?, Johnathan Cape, London.
30. Innes, JE & D Booher 2003 'Collaborative policymaking: Governance Through Dialogue' in MA Hajer & H Wagenaar eds Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
31. IPPA (Institute of Public Administration Australia) 2002 Working Together: Integrated Governance, IPPA.
32. Jessop, B 1997 'The governance of complexity and the complexity of governance: Preliminary remarks on some problems and limits of economic guidance', in A Amin & J Hauser eds Beyond Markets and Hierarchy: Interactive Governance and Social Complexity, Edward Elgar, Aldershot.
33. Jones, N 2002 The Control Freaks: How New Labour Gets its Own Way, Politicos, London.
34. Keating, M, J Wanna & P Weller eds 2000 Institutions on the Edge? Capacity for Governance, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
35. Kettl, DF 2000 'The transformation of governance: Globalisation, devolution, and the role of government', Public Administration Review, 60(6):488-97.
36. Kettl, DF 2002 The Transformation of Governance, John Hopkins Press, Baltimore.
37. Lane, MS 1998 Methods and Politics in Plato's Statesman, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
38. Leadbeater, C 2002 Innovate from Within, Demos, London.
39. Lichtenstein, B 2000 'Generative knowledge and self-organised learning: Reflections on Don Schön's research', Journal of Management Inquiry, 9(1):47-54.
40. Marston, G & R Watts 2003 'Tampering with the evidence: A critical appraisal of evidence-based policy making', The Drawing Board: An Australian Review of Public Affairs, 3(3): 143-63.
41. Mohr, A 2003 'The consensus conference network', The CSD Bulletin Vol. 10, No. 2, Centre for the Study of Democracy, London.
42. Mulgan, G 1997 Connexity, Chatto and Windus, London.
43. Mulgan, G 2003 'Government, knowledge and the business of policy-making', background paper for 'Facing the Future: Engaging Stakeholders and Citizens in Developing Public Policy', Canberra, 23-24th April 2003.
44. Murphy, J 2001 Analysing Environmental Policy: Capacities and Discourses, OCEES Research Paper No. 22. Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society, Oxford.
45. OECD 1996 Building Policy Coherence: Tools and Tensions, OECD, Paris.
46. Osborne, D & T Gaebler 1992 Reinventing Government, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA.
47. Parsons, W 1995 Public Policy, Edward Elgar Cheltenham.
48. Parsons, W 1982 'Politics without promises: The crisis of overload and governability', Parliamentary Affairs, 35(4):421-35.
49. Parsons, W 2001 'Modernising policy making for the 21st century: The professional model', Public Policy and Administration, 16(3):93-110.
50. Parsons, W 2002 Public Policy: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Policy Analysis, Edward Elgar, Brookfield.
51. PMI (Pathways Mapping Initiative) 2003 〈http://www.aecf.org/ pathways/〉.
52. Perri 6, D Leat, K Seltzer & G. Stoker 1999 Governing in the Round: Strategies for Holistic Government, Demos, London.
53. Peters, BG 1996 The Policy Capacity of Government, Research Paper No. 18, Canadian Centre for Management Development.
54. Plato, 1892 The Statesman, in The Dialogues of Plato (Volume Four), Translated by B Jowett, Clarendon, Oxford.
55. Podger, A 2002 'The Australian public service: A values-based service', presentation to the 2002 IIPE Biennial Conference on Reconstructing The Public Interest' in a Globalising World: Business, the Professions and the Public Sector, Australian Public Service Commission. See: 〈www.apsc. gov.au/media/podger〉.
56. Policy Research Initiative (PRI) 2003 〈http://policyresearch.gc. ca〉.
57. Polidano, C 1999 Measuring Policy Capacity, Public Policy and Management Working Paper, IDPM, Manchester University, Manchester.
58. Postrell, V 1999 The Future and its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress, Touchstone Books, New York.
59. Rhodes, RAW 1997a 'Shackling the leader? Coherence, capacity and the hollow crown', in P Weller, H Bakvis & RAW Rhodes eds The Hollow Crown: Countervailing Trends in Core Executives, Macmillan Press, London.
60. Rhodes, RAW, 1997b Understanding Governance: Policy Networks, Governance, Reflexity and Accountability, Open University Press, Buckingham.
61. Richards, D & MJ Smith 2002 Governance and Public Policy in the UK, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
62. Rooney, D, G Hearn, T Mandeville & R Joseph 2003 Public Policy in Knowledge Based Economies: Foundations and Frameworks, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
63. Sanderson, I 2002 'Making sense of what works: Evidence based policy making as instrumental rationality', Public Policy and Administration, 17(3):61-75.
64. Schön, DA 1973 Beyond the Stable State: Public and Private Learning in a Changing Society, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth.
65. Schön, DA 1983 The Reflective Practitioner, Basic Books, New York.
66. Schön, DA & M Rein 1994 Frame Reflection: Towards the Resolution of Intractable Policy Controversies, Basic Books, New York.
67. Schorr, L 2003 'Determining "What Works" in Social Programs and Social Policies: Towards a More Inclusive Knowledge Base', Brookings Institution, February, 〈http://209.238.39.93/index.htm〉.
68. Scott, JC 1998 Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, Yale University Press, New Haven.
69. SEU (Social Exclusion Unit) 1998 Bringing People Together: A National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal, Cabinet Office, London.
70. Stone, D 1988 Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making, Norton, New York.
71. Travers, T 2001 'Local government', in A Seldon ed. The Blair Effect: The Blair Government 1997 - 2001, Little, Brown and Company, London.
72. Vickers, G 1965 The Art of Judgement, Chapman Hall, London.
73. Wagenaar, H & SD Noam Cook 2003 'Understanding policy practices: Action, dialectic and deliberation in policy analysis', in MA Hajer & H Wagenaar eds Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
74. Walker, D 2002 In Praise of Centralism: A Critique of New Localism, Catalyst, London.
75. Wanna, J & P Keating 2000 'Conclusion: Institutional adaptability and coherence', in P Keating, J Wanna & P Weller eds Institutions on the Edge? Capacity for Governance, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
76. Weller, P, H Bakvis & RAW Rhodes, eds 1997 The Hollow Crown: Countervailing Trends in Core Executives, Macmillan Press, London.
77. White, M 2003 'From the novice of '97 to the harder figure of today', Guardian, 6 May.
78. Yanow, D 1996 How Does a Policy Mean: Interpreting Policy and Organisational Actions, Georgetown University Press, Washington DC.
79. Yanow, D 2003 'Accessing local knowledge' in MA Hajer & H Wagenaar eds Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.