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THE WICKED PROBLEM OF OUR FAILING SOCIAL COMPACT

open access: yesZygon, 2018
The United States is an outlier among nations in its failure to adopt robust climate policy. The underlying cause is not unique to the climate issue.
doaj   +2 more sources

Policy shifts and drifts: From intention to implementation of Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract It is not uncommon that original aspirations of social policy go astray during implementation. Issues that are the focus of social policy are often tied to various competing social, political, and value positions, making them unfailingly ‘wicked’ and rendering the design and implementation of solutions inherently challenging.
Eloise Hummell   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policy success and failure in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper introduces the seven articles in the symposium on policy success and failure together with a short introduction to the large literature on policy success and failure. The issue brings together an analysis of success and failure within seven discrete policy domains, including Indigenous policy; immigration; foreign policy; water ...
Keith Dowding   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The contribution of the humanities to the theory and practice of public administration in the 21st century

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supporting Water Governance and Climate Change Adaptation Through Systemic Praxis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Understanding and working with multiple perspectives on issues of change is an essential part of managing “common pool” water resources. In uncertain and complex situations arising from changes in human settlements and climate, both lives and livelihoods
Blackmore, Chris   +2 more
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The Politics of Changes in Housing Supply and Tenure: Illustrations from Australia and the Netherlands

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Almost regardless of the welfare system and market context, the changing housing landscapes in Western countries show a number of similar trends. Households are confronted with decreasing access to homeownership and social renting, and increased reliance on private renting in combination with growing housing shortages and housing affordability
Marietta Haffner, Kath Hulse
wiley   +1 more source

Opening the black box: carbon-footprint calculators, meat consumption, and the “wicked problem” of metric governance

open access: yesSustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy
Carbon-footprint calculators are widely used as communication and education tools, designed to make people aware of the ways their personal actions contribute to greenhouse-gas emissions. However, they have come under criticism for emphasizing individual
E. Melanie DuPuis, Dustin Mulvaney
doaj   +1 more source

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