Teaching Resources

STEM Policy Lab @MTU Process (SS3626)

Faulkner, N. and Kaufman, S., 2018. Avoiding theoretical stagnation: A systematic review and framework for measuring public value. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 77(1), pp.69-86.

Hinrichs-Krapels, S., Bailey, J., Boulding, H., Duffy, B., Hesketh, R., Kinloch, E., Pollitt, A., Rawlings, S., van Rij, A., Wilkinson, B. and Pow, R., 2020. Using Policy Labs as a process to bring evidence closer to public policymaking: a guide to one approach. Palgrave Communications, 6(1), pp.1-9.

Howlett, M. and Cashore, B., 2014. Conceptualizing public policy. In Comparative policy studies: Conceptual and methodological challenges (pp. 17-33). In Engeli, Isabelle, and C. Rothmayr Allison, eds. Comparative policy studies: Conceptual and methodological challenges. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

McGann, M., Blomkamp, E., & Lewis, J. M. (2018). The rise of public sector innovation labs: experiments in design thinking for policy. Policy Sciences, 51(3), 249–267. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-018-9315-7

Olejniczak, K., Borkowska-Waszak, S., Domaradzka-Widła, A. and Park, Y., 2020. Policy labs: the next frontier of policy design and evaluation?. Policy & Politics, 48(1), pp.89-110.

Tõnurist, P., Kattel, R. and Lember, V., 2017. Innovation labs in the public sector: what they are and what they do?. Public Management Review, 19(10), pp.1455-1479

Wellstead, A.M., Gofen, A. and Carter, A., 2021. Policy innovation lab scholarship: past, present, and the future–Introduction to the special issue on policy innovation labs. Policy Design and Practice, 4(2), pp.193-211.

Policy Process (SS5301)

Biesbroek, R., Dupuis, J. and Wellstead, A., 2017. Explaining through causal mechanisms: resilience and governance of social–ecological systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 28, pp.64-70.

Clarke, A. and Craft, J., 2019. The twin faces of public sector design. Governance, 32(1), pp.5-21.

Howlett, M. and Rayner, J., 2007. Design principles for policy mixes: Cohesion and coherence in ‘new governance arrangements’. Policy and society, 26(4), pp.1-18.

Jones, B.D. and Baumgartner, F.R., 2012. From there to here: Punctuated equilibrium to the general punctuation thesis to a theory of government information processing. Policy Studies Journal, 40(1), pp.1-20.

Kay, A. and Baker, P., 2015. What can causal process tracing offer to policy studies? A review of the literature. Policy Studies Journal, 43(1), pp.1-21.

Lindquist, E.A., 1992. Public managers and policy communities: Learning to meet new challenges. Canadian Public Administration, 35(2), pp.127-159.

Ostrom, E., 2011. Background on the institutional analysis and development framework. Policy Studies Journal, 39(1), pp.7-27.

Rogge, K.S., Kern, F. and Howlett, M., 2017. Conceptual and empirical advances in analysing policy mixes for energy transitions. Energy research & social science, 33, pp.1-10.

Sabatier, P. 2007. Theories of the Policy Process. Boulder:Westview Press

Sabatier, P.A., 1988. An advocacy coalition framework of policy change and the role of policy-oriented learning therein. Policy Sciences, 21(2), pp.129-168.

Schneider, A. and Ingram, H., 1993. Social construction of target populations: Implications for politics and policy. American political science review, 87(2), pp.334-347.

Shanahan, E.A., Jones, M.D., McBeth, M.K. and Radaelli, C.M., 2018. The narrative policy framework. In Theories of the policy process (pp. 173-213). Routledge.

Siddiki, S. and Curley, C., 2022. Conceptualising policy design in the policy process. Policy & Politics, 50(1), pp.117-135.

Simeon, R., 1976. Studying public policy. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, 9(4), pp.548-580

Tollefson, C., Zito, A.R. and Gale, F., 2012. Symposium overview: Conceptualizing new governance arrangements. Public administration, 90(1), pp.3-18.

Van der Heijden, J., Kuhlmann, J., Lindquist, E. and Wellstead, A., 2021. Have policy process scholars embraced causal mechanisms? A review of five popular frameworks. Public Policy and Administration, 36(2), pp.163-186.

Van Waarden, F., 1992. Dimensions and types of policy networks. European journal of political research, 21(1‐2), pp.29-52.

Wellstead, A., Howlett, M. and Rayner, J., 2015. How useful is complexity theory to policy studies Lessons from the climate change adaptation literature. In Handbook on complexity and public policy. Edward Elgar Publishing.-1-1.pdf

Wellstead, A., 2017. Plus ça Change, Plus C’est La Même Chose? A review of Paul Sabatier’s “An advocacy coalition framework of policy change and the role of policy-oriented learning therein”. Policy Sciences, 50(4), pp. 549-561.

Public Management (SS5318)

Ammons, D. N. 2002. Performance Measurement and Managerial Thinking. Public Performance & Management Review, 25(4), 344–358.

Behn, R. D. 2003. Why Measure Performance? Different Purposes Require Different Measures. Public Administration Review, 63(5), 586–606.

Cepiku, D., 2016. Performance management in public administration. In The Routledge Handbook of Global Public Policy and Administration (pp. 315-330). Routledge.

Denis, J.L., Langley, A. and Rouleau, L., 2005. Rethinking leadership in public organizations. In The Oxford Handbook of Public Management.

Gulrajani, N. and Moloney, K., 2012. Globalizing public administration: today's research and tomorrow's agenda. Public administration review, 72(1), pp.78-86.

Halligan, J., 2012. Leadership and the Senior Service from a Comparative Perspective. The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration, p.115.

Herd, P. and Moynihan, D.P., 2019. Administrative burden: Policymaking by other means. Russell Sage Foundation. Introduction Chapter 1

Hood, C., 2010. The blame game: Spin, bureaucracy, and self-preservation in government. Chapter 1.

Meier, K.J., 2023. Representative bureaucracy and social equity: Bias, perceived fairness and efficacy. Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration, 1(1), pp.23-38.

Painter, M. and Peters, B.G., 2010. The analysis of administrative traditions. In Tradition and public administration (pp. 3-16). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. (Chapter 2)

Pollitt, C. 2016. "What kind of subject is public management/public administration?" in Advanced Introduction to Public Management and Administration. Elgar. pp. 1-24.

Portillo, S., Humphrey, N. and Bearfield, D.A., 2022. Representative bureaucracy theory and the implicit embrace of whiteness and masculinity. Public Administration Review, 82(3), pp.594-597.

Provan, K.G. and Milward, H.B., 2001. Do networks really work? A framework for evaluating public‐sector organizational networks. Public administration review, 61(4), pp.414-423.

Roberts, A.S., 2024. False Globalism: American Public Administration In The Twenty-First Century. Available at SSRN.

Roberts, A., 2020. Strategies for governing: Reinventing public administration for a dangerous century. Cornell University Press.

Rhodes, R.A., 2016. Recovering the craft of public administration. Public administration review, 76(4), pp.638-647.

Sabharwal, M., 2015. From glass ceiling to glass cliff: Women in senior executive service. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 25(2), pp.39.

Wilson, J.Q., 2019. Bureaucracy: What government agencies do and why they do it. Basic Books.

Wu, X., Howlett, M. and Ramesh, M. eds., 2017. Policy capacity and governance: Assessing governmental competences and capabilities in theory and practice. Springer.

Professional Associations

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)

American Society for Public Administration (ASPA)

Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA).