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What Does Policy Success Look Like? Top-Down and Bottom-Up Perspectives

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By Paul Cairney
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The second in our PoPP group’s series of blog posts reflecting on the connections between established political science/ policy theory insights and a renewed focus on learning from success. Positive public policy – or ‘walking on the bright side’– focuses attention on the benefits of studying policy success as well as failure. This endeavour prompts a simple question – what does success look like? – but many competing answers.
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We are recruiting five Postdoctoral Research Fellows and one Research Partnership Manager for the University of Stirling FORTH2O project

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By Paul Cairney
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These posts will help to deliver key tasks for the FORTH2O Policy Innovation Partnership at the University of Stirling. For a thorough description of the project and its progress, please see: A renewed vision for FORTH2O We are recruiting very quickly, to reflect the advanced stage of the project: it is due to be completed at the end of 2026, and we hope to have people in place as early as possible in 2026 to create one-year positions.
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Why don’t governments learn, and what can we do about it?

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By Paul Cairney
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The first in our PoPP group’s series of blog posts reflecting on the connections between established political science/ policy theory insights and a renewed focus on learning from success. Learning from success and failure should be a routine part of effective government. Systematic learning from direct experience, or initiatives abroad, helps governments to update their policy knowledge and policymaking skills.
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