Improving Policy Effectiveness

Improving public policy efficiency and effectiveness in land use planning is an established priority on the prevailing political agenda in the UK. Practical measures to enhance policy formulation in local land use development plans in Scotland offer an interesting case study of an attempt to improve policy consistency, and to secure efficiency gains in policy authorship. This article considers the specific focus on the drafting stage of public policy‐making drawing on insights provided by research into the production of model policies in Scotland. It questions the extent to which such an initiative will promote a more robust public policy‐making discipline in light of the policy cycle. The discussion of the case study illustrates a practical attempt by central government to enhance public policy‐making at the local level, while raising questions about the dangers of invoking a technocratic and instrumentalist approach to policy analysis

Consistency (knowledge bases · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Instrumentalism · Land use · Land-use planning · Local government · Policy analysis · Policy studies · Political science · Politics · Polity · Public economics · Public policy · Technocracy · Engineering · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance

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• The Policy Cycle

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• The Policy Cycle

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• What Use is a Policy Cycle? Plenty, if the Aim is Clear

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• Bureaucrats in the Social Policy Process

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• Policy analysis, policy practice and political science

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• There's No Such Thing As Reflection

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• Policy Transfer as a Form of Prospective Policy Evaluation

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• Policy Transfer among Local Governments

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• New Labour, New centralism

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