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Paul Cairney: Politics & Public Policy Blog
1M ago
This post first appeared on the University of Stirling blog, is explored further in UK in a Changing Europe and the Heseltine Institute ‘Can policy be more preventive?‘, even further in this workshop summary, and even even further in this ..read more
Paul Cairney: Politics & Public Policy Blog
2M ago
This post – based on this article – first appeared in UK in a Changing Europe. See also How can UK Government become more effective? Catherine Durose, John Boswell, Paul Cairney, Sarah Ayres, Ian C Elliott, Matt Flinders, Steve Martin, and ..read more
Paul Cairney: Politics & Public Policy Blog
2M ago
By Paul Cairney and Claire Toomey, University of Stirling. This post summarises our pre-print in Open Research Europe (available any day now), which we will describe at the UKAPA conference 2024. The review began as an unpublished report to the ..read more
Paul Cairney: Politics & Public Policy Blog
3M ago
The full advert is here and I have pasted the main part below. The rest of the post contains my personal thoughts on the role and recruitment process, blending background information and some helpful advice. These notes address a potentially ..read more
Paul Cairney: Politics & Public Policy Blog
3M ago
This post by Sean Kippin introduces chapter 12 of Politics and Policymaking in the UK by Paul Cairney and Sean Kippin. The book stopped at the end of the Conservative government, but the main UK page will have updates from 2024 (including ..read more
Paul Cairney: Politics & Public Policy Blog
4M ago
This post summarises a new article by PoPP on the prospects of more effective government in the UK. We present a cautiously optimistic approach, explaining a major gap between government rhetoric and progress, but signalling the potential for many initiatives ..read more
Paul Cairney: Politics & Public Policy Blog
5M ago
This post relates early impressions of the UK General Election to key themes in Politics and Policy Making in the UK . We will provide updates when there is more published academic material on which to draw. If you see analysis ..read more
Paul Cairney: Politics & Public Policy Blog
5M ago
What is the difference between the study of policy implementation and ‘implementation science’? Here are some simple distinctions and their implications: 1. The starting point for discussion, or the problem to address. In policy studies, we tend to start with ..read more
Paul Cairney: Politics & Public Policy Blog
6M ago
This post by Sean Kippin introduces chapter 11 of Politics and Policymaking in the UK by Paul Cairney and Sean Kippin. This chapter uses the case study of the Iraq War to explores UK foreign policymaking. In response to the ..read more
Paul Cairney: Politics & Public Policy Blog
7M ago
There is much to be said for systems thinking or a systems-informed approach to key tasks such as evaluation. If the policy problem is complex, then we would not expect a single shot solution to work as intended in a ..read more