Policy Success, Policy Failure and Grey Areas In-Between

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Policy without politics: technocratic control of climate change adaptation policy making in Nepal (2016, background): “Policy in this article particularly focuses on process aspects – including politics and contestation at different stages of decision making, and thus we tend to prefer the term ‘policy processes’ (McConnell, 2010; Orr, 2006).”
Why are policy innovations rare and so often negative? Blame avoidance and problem denial in climate change policy-making (2014, unknown): “McConnell (2010a), for example, defined policy success as the condition which obtains when a policy ‘‘achieves the goals that proponents set out to achieve and attracts no criticism of any significance and/or support is virtually universal’’ (p. 351) while defining policy failure as ‘‘a policy…”
Patching vs Packaging in Policy Formulation: Assessing Policy Portfolio Design (2013, background): “As these faults were recognized, new efforts to think about more complex policy designs have led to a new generation of design thinking in this area and the articulation of a new set of principles and practices expected to result in superior designs; that is, ones more likely to reach their targets ”