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EAST: Four simple ways to apply behavioural insights
Full text linkOwain Service, Michael Hallsworth, David Halpern,Felicity Algate, Rory Gallagher, Sam Nguyen, Simon Ruda, Michael Sanders with Marcos Pelenur, Alex Gyani, Hugo Harper, Joanne Reinhard & Elspeth Kirkman If you want to encourage a behaviour, make it Easy, Attractive, Social and Timely (EAST). These four simple principles for applying behavioural insights are based on the Behavioural Insights Team’s own work and the wider academic literature. There is a large body of evidence on what influences behaviour, and we donot attempt to reflect all its complexity and nuances here. But we have found that policy makers and practitioners and it useful to have a simple, memorable framework to think about effective behavioural approaches.
An Institutional Approach to the Theory of Policymaking: The Role of Guidance Mechanisms in Policy Formulation
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The introduction of design to policymaking: Policy Lab and the UK government
Full text linkThe use of design within government institutions is a rapidly accelerating trend of global dimensions. The emergent nature of these design practices, and cultures, raises questions about what exactly is happening in the interactions between design and political institutions, and how that might be understood in broader socio-economic and political terms. This paper reports on a series of interviews with senior level civil servants working in UK central government, all of whom have had some exposure to design methods and techniques through interaction with the UK Policy Lab. The paper sets out the ways in which the epistemology and practices of design, as introduced through Policy Lab, both expose and challenge those of the political institutions and policy professionals they seek to change.
Social Construction and Policy Design: A Review of Past Applications
Full text linkOne of the leading theories for understanding the policy process is the theory of social construction and policy design developed by Anne Schneider and Helen Ingram. The theory incorporates the social construction and power of target populations to understand the development and implications of policy design. In order to better understand its empirical breadth, depth, and general utility, our analysis reviews all past publications of the theory, focusing specifically on empirical applications (N = 111), from 1993 to 2013. Based on this review, we find: a recent increase in the number of applications of this theory; that these applications appear across a wide range of outlets, relate to numerous policy domains, and are conducted by a diverse group of domestic and international scholars; that the target population proposition has been applied with greater frequency than the theory’s feed-forward proposition; and that scholars have a notable interest in understanding causal mechanisms leading to changes in the positioning of target populations among advantaged, contender, dependent, and deviant target popu- lation categories. Following a descriptive review of past publications, we offer specific suggestions for theoretical development and future research.
A Design Perspective on Policy Implementation: The Fallacies of Misplaced Prescription
Full text linkOur argument, stated simply, is that the concentration on implementa- tion has added little to our theoretical understanding of policymaking be- yond the fundamental idea that implementation cannot be taken for granted in a complex policymaking environment. Further, it has normative implica- tions for the conduct of policy analysis which may be highly undesirable. The structure of our argument is built on the contrast between the ap- proach to policymaking implicit in a concentration on implementation and that involved in a more explicit emphasis on policy design. Based on this contrast, we will emphasize a general approach to the design of both policy instruments and their implementation structures which can subsume most implementation analysis. Such an approach will stress a more appropriate concern with the characteristics of policy options and instruments inherent in a design approach (Dryzek, 1983; Linder & Peters, 1984). Our purpose here is not so much to attack and attempt to supplant the implementation focus as it is to build on its insights to develop a more positive approach to policymaking.
Toward a New Agenda for the Comparative Study of Provincial Politics and Elections
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The Design:Lab as platform in participatory design research
Full text linkThe notion of laboratory or simply ‘lab’ has become popular in recent years in areas outside science and technology development. Learning Labs, Innovation Labs, Usability Labs, Media and Communication Labs and even Art Labs designate institutions or fora dedicated to change and experimentation. Influenced by these currents, we use the expression ‘Design:Lab’ as a shorthand description of open collaborations between many stakeholders sharing a mutual interest in design research in a particular field. Many have reacted to the term ‘laboratory’ or ‘lab’ as foreign and awkward to design, and we as well as others have frequently used other metaphors like workshop, studio or atelier in design research. In this article we will argue that the laboratory metaphor is particularly suitable and useful for the Design:Lab, and we will give examples of how we have worked with the Design:Lab as a platform for collaborative inquiries and knowledge production based on design experiments.
POLS30035 Senior Undergraduate University of Melbourne Design Syllabus
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Change Lab/Design Lab for Social Innovation
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Murdoch University Lower Level Undergraduate Design Syllabus 2017
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