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Field experiments -- randomized controlled trials -- have become ever more popular in political science, as well as in other disciplines, such as economics, social policy and development. Policy-makers have also increasingly used randomization to evaluate public policies, designing trials of tax reminders, welfare policies and international aid programs to name just a few of the interventions tested in this way. Field experiments have become successful because they assess causal claims in ways that other methods of evaluation find hard to emulate. Social scientists and evaluators have rediscovered how to design and analyze field experiments, but they have paid much less attention to the challenges of organizing and managing them. Field experiments pose unique challenges and opportunities for the researcher and evaluator which come from working in the field. The research experience can be challenging and at times hard to predict. This book aims to help researchers and evaluators plan and manage their field experiments so they can avoid common pitfalls. It is also intended to open up discussion about the context and backdrop to trials so that these practical aspects of field experiments are better understood. The book sets out ten steps researchers can use to plan their field experiments, then nine threats to watch out for when they implement them. There are cases studies of voting and political participation, elites, welfare and employment, nudging citizens, and developing countries.--

Fearful symmetry? : higher education and the logic of the market / Peter John and Joelle Fanghanel -- Private commodities and public goods : markets and values in higher education / Peter Scott -- Paying the price of expansion : why more for undergraduates in England means less for everyone / Helen Carasso and William Locke -- Choice in the learning market : tokenistic ritual or democratic education? / Rajani Naidoo -- Marketing and marketisation : what went wrong, and how we can put it right? / Rob Cuthbert -- Scotland and the higher education market / Tony Bruce -- Contractualising the student experience through university charters / Joanna Williams -- Uk universities as a single entity : striking a balance between public and private needs / Bernard Longden -- Some considerations on higher education as a "post-experience good" / Morgan White -- The "unravelling" of English higher education / Patrick Ainley -- Regulating risk in the higher education state: implications for policy and research / Roger King -- How the Home Office became a regulator of higher education in England / Geoffrey Alderman -- Making a difference : the roles of markets and the roles of quality assurance regimes / John Brennan -- Shifting perspectives on research and teaching relationships : a view from Australia / Angela Brew -- Developing criticality in learning and teaching through pedagogical action research / Lin Norton -- Reshaping understandings, practices and policies to enhance the links between teaching and research / Alan Jenkins and Mick Healey -- Engaging the international scholarly and policy community through active dialogue on the research-teaching nexus / Vaneeta D'Andrea -- A critical reflection on leadership in higher education / Robin Middlehurst -- Reflections on evidence and higher education policy / Gareth Williams -- Academic quality and academic responsibility: a critical reflection on collegial governance / David D. Dill -- Policy, what policy? : considering the university in the twenty-first century / Ronald Barnett -- Higher education and the market : thoughts, themes, threads / Joelle Fanghanel and Peter John

"Through a unique dataset covering half a century of policy-making in Britain, this book traces how topics like the economy, international affairs, and crime have changed in their importance to government. The data concerns key venues of decision-making - the Queen's Speech, laws and budgets - which are compared to the media and public opinion. These trends are conveyed through accessible figures backed up by a series of examples of important policies. As a result, the book throws new light on the key points of change in British politics, such as Thatcherism and New Labour and explores different approaches to agenda setting helping to account for these changes: incrementalism, the issue attention cycle and the punctuated equilibrium model. What results is the development of a new approach to agenda setting labelled focused adaptation whereby policy-makers respond to structural shifts in the underlying pattern of attention"--

"Seeks to review the most common and widely used frameworks in the study of policy analysis: Institutions, Groups and networks, Society and the economy, Individual interests and Ideas."--Publisher.

Many tools are on offer to politicians and other policy-makers when they seek to change policy outcomes. Often they choose to concentrate on one set of tools, but fail to see the costs as well as the benefits - and may not consider the available evidence regarding their effectiveness. This innovative new textbook clearly sets out the main tools of government, and provides an analysis of their efficacy when applied to public problems. Offering a clear and comprehensive evaluation, and highlighting the set of powerful tools commonly available, this text encourages students to consider the most e.

This work provides a comprehensive introduction to local government and urban politics in contemporary Western Europe. The author shows how local government institutions have been subject to change as a response to Europeanisation.

Abstract
Behavioural public policy (BPP) operates within one of four cultural models of public management, an illustration of an influential scheme set out by Christopher Hood. Even though BPP can be fatalist, individualist or egalitarian, so far it has been hierarchicalist. Hallsworth's manifesto is largely an expression of this hierarchicalist form of public management, with all its limitations and contradictions. As the manifesto pays relatively little attention to decentralist and egalitarian approaches, it misses a radical opportunity. Future work on BPP could incorporate entrepreneurial and egalitarian possibilities while recognising the difficulties of moving away from hierarchalism completely. Even though Hood cautions against a 'public management for all seasons', it remains a plausible path for the next generation of researchers and practitioners of BPP.