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Michael Howlett

Camano, Vancouver
As seen in: Nature, Wiley Online Library, Memory Studies, SAGE Publishing, Taylor & Francis Online, ACS Publications, Globalization and Health, Routledge, SAFETY4SEA
FRSC. Burnaby Mountain Professor & ex-Canada Research Chair, Simon Fraser University; Ed. Policy Sciences, Policy Design & Practice, Policy & Society
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Beyond evidentiary uncertainty: mitigating political risks in policy designs

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By Michael Howlett, Andrea Migone
| Taylor & Francis Online
Abstract Policy designs occur within complex environments where multiple actors, conflicting goals and multi-layered opportunity-cost calculations must be accounted for before, during and after a decision is made. Here we propose a useful framework to employ in managing the political and administrative uncertainties accompanying these activities and identifying what kind of design is desirable in any given circumstance.
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Dictionary of Policy Design

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By Michael Howlett, Alexander Howlett
| e-elgar.com
‘The Dictionary of Policy Design is a valuable reference text for researchers and practitioners interested in learning about the meaning of concepts regularly engaged in research on policy design, as well as policy studies more broadly. Alongside offering definitions of concepts, the authors additionally convey key related ideas and select references, thereby offering a grounding of concepts that help the reader understand how they fit in within policy studies.
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Expertise, policy advice, and policy advisory systems in an open, participatory, and populist era: New challenges to research and practice

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By Jonathan Craft, Brian Head, Michael Howlett
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE: ASSEMBLAGES OF POLICY EXPERTISE THEN AND NOW This special issue adds to a growing set of studies that have recently engaged with the themes of policy advice, expertise, and policy advisory systems (PASs); or, in other words, with the assemblages of advisory units and practices that exist around governments at a given time and with which governments and other actors engage for policy purposes (Craft & Halligan, 2020; Plowden, 1987).
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