Making Policy in Theory and Practice

In Professional Policy Making for the Twenty-First Century, the UK Cabinet Office's Strategic Policy Making Team identified nine 'competencies' as the key features of 'modern policy-making' forward-looking; outward-looking; innovative, flexible, and creative; evidence-based; inclusive; joined-up; open to review; open to evaluation; and capable of learning lessons. This book follows up with an examination of these competencies. It combines both UK academic and practitioner perspectives to provide critical consideration of contemporary policy-making, and it highlights examples of good practice at all levels of government.