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There is increasing debate about the role that public policy research can play in identifying solutions to complex policy challenges. Most studies focus on describing and explaining how governance systems operate. However, some scholars argue that because current institutions are often not up to the task, researchers need to rethink this 'bystander' approach and engage in experimentation and interventions that can help to change and improve governance systems. This paper contributes to this discourse by developing a design science framework that integrates retrospective research (scientific validation) and prospective research (creative design). It illustrates the merits and challenges of doing this through two case studies in the Netherlands and concludes that a design science framework provides a way of integrating traditional validation-oriented research with intervention-oriented design approaches. We argue that working at the interface between them will create new opportunities for these complementary modes of public policy research to achieve impact.

This book draws on my professional experience as a civil servant and a university academic. This is not primarily a book of political philosophy but a book based on political philosophy for those interested in the ethics of public leadership in contemporary democratic governance. What I am 'recovering' is the practice of political philosophy in the compromised and flawed systems of public leadership shaped by contemporary governance, with more potential than we might realise to take close note of the political philosophies of Mill, Kant, and Aristotle.

This book draws on my professional experience as a civil servant and a university academic. This is not primarily a book of political philosophy but a book based on political philosophy for those interested in the ethics of public leadership in contemporary democratic governance. What I am 'recovering' is the practice of political philosophy in the compromised and flawed systems of public leadership shaped by contemporary governance, with more potential than we might realise to take close note of the political philosophies of Mill, Kant, and Aristotle.

There is increasing debate about the role that public policy research can play in identifying solutions to complex policy challenges. Most studies focus on describing and explaining how governance systems operate. However, some scholars argue that because current institutions are often not up to the task, researchers need to rethink this 'bystander' approach and engage in experimentation and interventions that can help to change and improve governance systems. This paper contributes to this discourse by developing a design science framework that integrates retrospective research (scientific validation) and prospective research (creative design). It illustrates the merits and challenges of doing this through two case studies in the Netherlands and concludes that a design science framework provides a way of integrating traditional validation-oriented research with intervention-oriented design approaches. We argue that working at the interface between them will create new opportunities for these complementary modes of public policy research to achieve impact.

This book recovers Aristotle's understanding of the roles of rhetoric and prudence in public leadership, comparing it to the other major political theories of leadership: utilitarianism, as advocated by J.S. Mill, and duty-ethics, as advocated by Immanuel Kant.

Explaining the Malaysian civil service: of institutions, governance and change -- The Malaysian civil service: the past and the present -- The Malaysian civil service -- Islam and the Malaysian bureaucracy: past, present and future -- MAMPU: assessing the reform effort of a change agent -- Collaborative governance: nudging for clever design -- Persistence of bureaucratic over-representativeness or under-representativeness in the Malaysian civil service: an institutional explanation -- Motivation to serve: between agency and institutional consideration -- Institutions and change: work in progress.

The Routledge Handbook of Global Public Policy and Administration is a comprehensive leading-edge guide for students, scholars and practitioners of public policy and administration. Public policy and administration are key aspects of modern societies that affect the daily lives of all citizens. This handbook examines current trends and reforms in public policy and administration, such as financial regulation, risk management, public health, e-government and many others at the local, national and international levels. The two themes of the book are that public policy and administration have acquired an important global aspect, and that a critical role for government is the regulation of capital

The Routledge Handbook of Global Public Policy and Administration is a comprehensive leading-edge guide for students, scholars and practitioners of public policy and administration. Public policy and administration are key aspects of modern societies that affect the daily lives of all citizens. This handbook examines current trends and reforms in public policy and administration, such as financial regulation, risk management, public health, e-government and many others at the local, national and international levels. The two themes of the book are that public policy and administration have acquired an important global aspect, and that a critical role for government is the regulation of capital.