Meaning and power in the design and development of policy experiments

Futures

Volumn 76, Issue , 2016, Pages 67-74

  Nair, Sreeja ^a   Howlett, Michael ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Evaluation; Policy experiments; Policy implementation; Policy pilots; Politics; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENT; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POLICY MAKING; POLITICS; STAKEHOLDER;

EID: 84958834759     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2015.02.008     Document Type: Article

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