Policy messes and their management

Resource type
Author/contributor
Title
Policy messes and their management
Abstract
This paper presents a framework for better managing policy messes and draws implications for bad and good mess management in policy analysis and management. The framework has three foci: (1) the cognitive space in which policy messes develop, particularly in terms of gaps between macro-designers and micro-operators; (2) the unique domain of competence within that space where professionals manage the resulting messes by virtue of their skills in recognizing system-wide patterns, formulating locally specific contingency scenarios and translating both patterns and scenarios in highly reliable services; and (3) the ability of those mess and reliability professionals to be reliable in their domain and with these skills by maneuvering across different performance modes as conditions dictate—just-in-case, just-on-time, just-for-now or just-this-way.
Publication
Policy Sciences
Volume
49
Issue
4
Pages
351-372
Date
2016/12/01
Journal Abbr
Policy Sci
Language
en
ISSN
0032-2687, 1573-0891
Accessed
05/04/2017, 13:10
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Citation
Roe, E. (2016). Policy messes and their management. Policy Sciences, 49(4), 351–372. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-016-9258-9