Policy-Making as Designing

<p>The articles on which Chapters 4 5 and 6 are based are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. </p><p> Design approaches to policy-making have gained increasing popularity among policy makers in recent years.</p><p> First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics this book presents original critical reflections on the value of design approaches and how they relate to the classical idea of public administration as a design science with a new concluding chapter. Contributors consider the potential challenges and applications of design approaches and distinguish between three methods currently characterising the discipline: design as optimisation design as exploration and design as co-creation. </p><p> Developing the dialogue around public administration as a design science this collection explores how a more 'designerly' way of thinking can improve public administration and public policy.</p>