This visionary Research Handbook presents the state of the art in research on policy design. By conceiving policy design both as a theoretical and a methodological framework, it provides scholars and practitioners with guidance on understanding policy problems and devising accurate solutions.

Contents: Foreword: policy design as aspiration and frustration xiii Davis B. Bobrow Preface xvi 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook of Policy Design: operationalizing the policy design framework 1 B. Guy Peters and Guillaume Fontaine PART I THEORIES OF THE POLICY DESIGN FRAMEWORK 2 The politics of policy design 40 Nick Turnbull 3 Institutions, institutional theory, and policy design 54 B. Guy Peters 4 Instrumentation in policy design: policy tools – from devices to activators 72 Giliberto Capano and Michael Howlett 5 Policy instrumentation with or without policy design 88 Patrick Le Galès 6 Policy design and constructivism 104 Marlon Barbehön 7 Making sense of (and with) policy design 120 Hal K. Colebatch PART II CAUSATION AND PROBLEM DEFINITION 8 Four models of causation in the design of anti-corruption policies 136 Guillaume Fontaine, Taymi Milán and Alejandro Hernández-Luis 9 Coping with wicked problems in policy design 155 Brian W. Head 10 Listening to science in policy design: the contrasting cases of Quebec and Sweden during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic 176 Antoine Lemor, Louis-Robert Beaulieu-Guay, PerOla Öberg and Éric Montpetit 11 Fourth industrial revolution and algorithms: new challenges for policy design 194 Adam Wellstead, Tanya Heikkila and Matthew Wood 12 Good trouble in the academy: inventing design-focused case studies about public management as an archetype of policy design research 212 Michael Barzelay, Luciano Andrenacci, Sérgio N. Seabra and Yifei Yan PART III EVALUATION, FRAMING AND VALUES 13 A political theory of policy formulation practice, and stakeholder engagement 234 Robert Hoppe 14 Bridging ideas and policy design 256 Daniel Béland and Ishani Mukherjee 15 Anti-poverty program design under the human capital and human rights perspectives: overall features and Mexican cases 270 José Luis Méndez and Dafne Villagrán 16 Social policies for older adults in industrialized countries 285 Patrik Marier, Margaux Reiss and Isabelle Van Pevenage PART IV INSTRUMENTATION AND COORDINATION 17 Governance models and policy design 299 Jon Pierre 18 Adaptive governance through policy design 313 Saba Siddiki 19 Designing social policies: design spaces and capacity challenges 326 Namrata Chindarkar, M. Ramesh and Michael Howlett 20 Designing for coordination: the case of regulatory management policy 341 Fabrizio De Francesco and Valérie Pattyn 21 Policy design for policy coordination 355 Geert Bouckaert, B. Guy Peters and Koen Verhoest PART V INTERVENTION AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT 22 Policy design labs and innovation 376 Jenny M. Lewis 23 Complexity, innovation and policy design 392 Steven Ney 24 Enhancing policy design and sustainable community outcomes through collaborative platforms based on a dynamic performance management and governance approach 411 Carmine Bianchi 25 Co-designing urban policies 434 Catherine Durose and Liz Richardson 26 Policy design as deliberative practice: learning from Khon Kaen (Thailand) 447 Piyapong Boossabong and Frank Fischer 27 Conclusion to the Research Handbook of Policy Design: A research agenda 465 B. Guy Peters and Guillaume Fontaine Index

‘Arguably no more important question, in the global era, faces students of public policy than to understand the processes and approach for developing, and implementing, policy design. Understanding the conditions through which policy design emerges, shapes policy tools’ considerations and, ultimately – as Peters and Fontaine’s impressive collection of essays make clear – is not just about achieving goal attainment but also about understanding how competing and complementary approaches for doing so end up influencing how we view problems and consideration of their solutions. It is for these reasons that it is hard to overstate the importance of this book for students and practitioners of public policy. Not only does this book make contributions to those seeking to explain, and prescribe, public policy, but it also makes it clear that the turn toward “decision science” and universalist answers, and its corresponding reliance on “big data” and sophisticated algorithms, as illustrated in the Heikkilä, Wellstead and Wood chapter, provides an incomplete knowledge base required for a comprehensive interrogation of policy design. For these reasons the book’s embracing of the contribution of different knowledge communities is not only refreshing, it is required for those who seek to advance societal deliberations over what it means to engage in “good policy”, rather than advancing approaches that narrow these conversations. Required reading for students of public policy and practitioners who seek to improve an understanding of, and ameliorate, the myriad of vexing policy challenges facing governments, and civil society.’