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Author:   Anis B. Brik ,  Leslie A. Pal
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 16.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.542kg
ISBN:  

9781800376472

ISBN 10:   1800376472
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   22 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Preface x 1 Introduction: futures, now and then 1 Anis Ben Brik and Leslie A. Pal 2 Embracing the future of the policy sciences: big data in pedagogy and practice 9 Nihit Goyal, Ola G. El-Taliawi and Michael Howlett 3 Neo-professionalization of the civil service: an institutional perspective on policy studies education 28 Kris Hartley and Norainie Ahmad 4 Policy science beyond self-congratulatory virtue signalling: matching supply and demand in the scholarship, pedagogy and purpose of the policy enterprise 51 Michael Howlett and Darryl S. L. Jarvis 5 Public policy education in the non-Western world: changing context and content 70 Sreeja Nair, Ola G. El-Taliawi and Zeger Van der Wal 6 Disaster risk reduction and the development narrative: towards a new public policy epistemic 85 Glen Kuecker and Kris Hartley 7 Policy practices: a bridge between policy theory and empirical research 103 Arnost Vesely 8 Policy expertise and policy markets: challenges for tackling complex problems in turbulent times 121 Brian W. Head 9 Back to the future: learning from the evolution of global sustainability governance 140 Andreas Rechkemmer 10 What is a policy scholar for? 163 Claire A. Dunlop and Claudio M. Radaelli Conclusion. Future tense: a new grammar for the policy sciences? 180 Leslie A. Pal and Anis Ben Brik Index 204

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'The Future of the Policy Sciences provides a comprehensive overview of the past development and new trends of policy sciences. Particularly, new technologies, such as big data and artificial intelligence, and global disasters, such as the Ebola and COVID-19 pandemics, have fundamentally changed the ecology of policy decision making all over the world. In the framework of digital governance and global governance, we must reconsider the foundation of policy science theories. Anyone interested in future public policy issues must read this sharp, timely, brilliant book.' -- Xufeng Zhu, Tsinghua University, China

'Brik and Pal bring together a timely and robust examination of the future of policy sciences boldly asking what are the new policy and governance challenges in a post pandemic world? And within the context of a potentially bigger, protective state , how well positioned and developed are the theories of policy science to progress meaningful and robust analysis? This book points to new and emerging themes in theoretical development, research and in the curricula of policy schools across the globe, noting unique developments in the non-Western world. Discussion explores the emerging concerns for the governance of turbulence, the challenging disdain of expertise and evidence, the growing role of big data and the accelerated interest in digital services pushed by pandemic pressures and uncertainty. Scholars and leaders of programs and schools of policy and governance will find this a valuable account of how the policy sciences is evolving and what is driving this intellectual development.' - Christopher Walker, Griffith University, Australia - Xufeng Zhu, Tsinghua University, China

'The Future of the Policy Sciences provides a comprehensive overview of the past development and new trends of policy sciences. Particularly, new technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence and global disasters such as the Ebola and COVID-19 pandemics have fundamentally changed the ecology of policy decision making all over the world. In the framework of digital governance and global governance, we must reconsider the foundation of policy science theories. Anyone interested in future public policy issues must read this sharp, timely, brilliant book.' -- Xufeng Zhu, Tsinghua University, China

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Edited by Anis Ben Brik, Associate Professor and Leslie A. Pal, Professor and Dean, College of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

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