Policy design as craft: Teasing out policy design expertise using a semi-experimental approach

Policy Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 209-225

  Considine, Mark ^a   Alexander, Damon ^a   Lewis, Jenny M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision making; Expertise; Policy design; Scenario based exercises

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; PLANNING METHOD; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; POLICY STRATEGY;

EID: 84906076520     PISSN: 00322687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11077-013-9191-0     Document Type: Article

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