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FRSC. Burnaby Mountain Professor and ex-Canada Research Chair, Simon Fraser University (Canada) & Visiting Fellow Lingnan University (Hong Kong); Ed. Policy Sciences, Policy Design & Practice, Policy & Society, ARPD

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Michael P. Howlett is the Burnaby Mountain Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, and was Yong Pung How Chair Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He specializes in comparative policy studies with a focus on resource and environmental policy-making. .. more

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Recent Book - Designing Public Policies 3rd Edition (Routledge) by Michael Howlett (2024)

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Just published! Dictionary of Policy Design. By Michael Howlett @howlettm and Alexander Howlett @Suetonius_

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Dictionary of Policy Design

‘This Dictionary of Policy Design fills a large gap. It provides succinct and reliable definitions and explanations of key terms relevant to analysis of policy problems and policy responses. This is u...

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Just Out and Open Access! Special Issue of Policy & Society on "Malignity in Policy Sciences" eds M. Jae Moon & Tim Legrand. Articles on Zombie Policies, India, Robodebt, Clientelism, Honesty, Emotions, Revolving Doors & Authoritarianism.

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Volume 44 Issue 2 | Policy and Society | Oxford Academic

Policy and Society is a leading international open access journal that publishes peer-reviewed research on critical issues in policy theory and practice at the local, national and international…

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New Issue of Policy Sciences now out: September 2025.

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Policy Sciences 58(3) now out. Articles by Thompson et al, van Uffelen et al, Kammerer et al, Boon & Wolf, Ambrose & Imperial, Kim & Ko, Gonnet et al, Durnova et al, and Cairney.

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Hot off the press! Latest issue of Policy Sciences (Sept 2025) now out. Articles on policy coherence, policy success, collaborative governance, policy emotions, policy innovation and more.

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Now out in Issue and Open Access - "Beyond evidentiary uncertainty: mitigating political risks in policy designs" by @howlettm & @Andrea_Migone. Policy Design & Practice 8(3) SI on Uncertainty eds. Lewis and Bali

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Just out and Open Access in Policy Design & Practice. Special Issue on "Navigating Uncertainty in Policy Design" eds. Jenny M Lewis and Azad Bali. Articles on policy tools, policy labs, models, political risks, decoy goals and more.

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Navigating Uncertainty in Policy Design; Guest editor: Jenny M Lewis and Azad Bali. Volume 8, Issue 3 of Policy Design and Practice

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Now available on-line! Routledge Handbook of Policy Advisory Systems, eds. G. Capano, M. Howlett, J. Craft @gilibertocapano @howlettm @Jonathan_Craft

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The Routledge Handbook of Policy Advisory Systems | Giliberto Capano,

This handbook comprehensively reflects, presents and summarises both first and second wave scholarship into policy advisory systems (PAS). Bringing together

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Kris Hartley @krishartley.bsky.social · 18d

Thrilled to share my new book chapter entitled "The Impact of Social Media, ‘Fake News,’ and Disinformation on Policy Advice." Published in the Handbook of Policy Advice (Edward Elgar Publishing) & edited by two greats - @howlettm.bsky.social & Ishani Mukherjee www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

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Just out - New Special Issue in Policy Design & Practice ed. Mattia Casula and Andrea Migone.
10 new open access articles on

"Collaborative Public Sector Innovation as a Policy (Design) Problem "

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Collaborative Public Sector Innovation as a Policy (Design) Problem; Mattia Casula and Andrea Migone. Volume 8, Issue 2 of Policy Design and Practice

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Sophie Yates @sophieyates.bsky.social · 19d

New from Al Stark and me, in Ishani Mukherjee and @howlettm.bsky.social's Handbook of Policy Advice www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

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New! Handbook of Policy Advice now on-line.
Edited by Michael Howlett and Ishani Mukherjee @howlettm @Imstill49

"This timely Handbook examines the background, organization and evolution of policy advice and expertise in contemporary government in 45 chapters.

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Policy & Politics @policy-politics.bsky.social · Sep 9

Congratulations to @andreamigone.bsky.social & @howlettm.bsky.social on authoring one of our top 10 most cited articles of 2025!

Check it out 👇

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A theory of policy advisory system quality: Hirschman 2.0 or what makes for good policy advice?

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Policy & Politics @policy-politics.bsky.social · Sep 3

📚⚡We're back after summer break!

Read our latest blog post by @howlettm.bsky.social and @andreamigone.bsky.social

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A theory of policy advisory system quality: Hirschman 2.0 or what makes for good policy advice?

by Liz Richardson, Catherine Durose, Lucy Kimbell and Ramia Mazé In a recent article published in Policy & Politics, authors Andrea Migone and Michael Howlett offer a compelling new framework f…

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Just out and Open Access in Policy & Society - "Management and quality: third-generation research into policy advisory systems" by Michael Howlett , Maria Tullia Galanti , Andrea Migone , Giulia Vicentini
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Management and quality: third-generation research into policy advisory systems

Abstract . In this article, we argue that in order to better understand how Policy Advisory Systems (PAS) have evolved during the 21st century, we need to

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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · Jul 29

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Just out in Early View and OA in Policy Design & Practice - "Beyond evidentiary uncertainty: mitigating political risks in policy designs" by Michael Howlett &Andrea Migone

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Steven W. Webster @stevenwwebster.bsky.social · Jul 12

A sad update: our colleague, Ted Carmines, has passed. He will be sorely missed.

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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · Jul 10

☀️ Early View 📨

How does Policy Advisory System (PAS) relate to the political framing of policy action ❓

How do elements of PAS activity provide advice on policy-making❓

@andreamigone.bsky.social & @howlettm.bsky.social extend the 3⃣rd generation PAS research 👇

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Just out and OA in Policy & Society - "Kicked cans and poison pills: third generation policy advisory system studies and the management of quality political advice" by
Andrea Migone & Michael Howlett

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Policy & Politics @policy-politics.bsky.social · Jul 7

👏👏👏Well done Sebastian Sewerin, Benjamin Cashore & @howlettm.bsky.social! You’re some of our most cited authors
‬Read their top cited paper ‘New pathways to paradigm change in public policy: combining insights from policy design, mix and feedback’ doi.org/10.1332/0305...

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Policy Sciences Vol 58(2) June 2025 released @policysciences

Articles by Mattocks; Raudla, Sarapuu & Harbuzova; Wellstead, Giest & Evans; Patterson, Anisimova, Kaiser; Poole and Elstub; Xia; Giest; Lejano and Kan; and Maor.

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Just out and mainly OA - June 2025 issue of Policy Sciences @policysciences. Symposium on Policy Experiments and articles on backlash to climate change, mini-publics, digital government & infrastructures, the relational turn, and policy bubbles.

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Policy Sciences

With an interdisciplinary and international focus, Policy Sciences encourages a diversity of perspectives. The editors especially welcome conceptual and ...

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Reposting with corrected Journal name - 2024 Journal Impact Factors just out from Clarivate. Policy & Society is

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This places the Journal at no. 2 in the world in Public Administration by Impact Factor (JIF) and no. 1 by Journal Citation Indicator (JCI).

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2024 Clarivate Impact Factor for Policy Design and Practice is 2.6 (cites in 2024 to articles published in 2022-23). Solid performance for new and only practice-oriented open access Journal in the field.

Always looking for new submissions!

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2024 Clarivate Impact Factor for Policy Sciences is 3.7 (cites in 2024 cites to articles from 2022-23). The Journal had a record number of total citations (including citations to articles outside the two year Clarivate window) and remains the standard in the field.

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Policy Sciences

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Guillermo M. Cejudo @gmocejudo.bsky.social · Jun 5

"the complexity of contemporary policy problems demands rethinking policy analysis education and reorienting it toward enhancing abductive reasoning skills"

M Ramesh & @howlettm.bsky.social

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Educating for uncertainty: Integrating abductive reasoning into the public policy curriculum

Traditional quantitative policy analysis often fails to effectively address complex, uncertain, and value-laden policy challenges due to limitations rooted in data unavailability, causal complexity...

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New Issue of Policy Design & Practice 8(1) 2025. OA papers on Quality Policy Advice; Democratic Design, GIS & Design; Healthcare Design; Data Governance; User Design; Reform Design; New Policy Tools; Improving Policcy Education. Available at:

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Just out and OA in Policy Design & Practice:

"Educating for uncertainty: Integrating abductive reasoning into the public policy curriculum"
by M Ramesh & Michael Howlett @howlettm

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Bad Public Policy ANZSOG Wrap

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Bad public policy | ANZSOG

A Cambridge Elements monograph makes the case for paying attention to the dark side of policy making which can be found in bad policy outcomes and bad policies.

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