Article: Implementation-minded policy making

A new article from experts at CEI and the Wales Centre for Public Policy, published on PublicPolicy.ie, examines how we can reduce policy failure by considering key factors that support real-world implementation.

Read the full article HERE

The authors point to two key factors consistently cited in research, across human services policy areas in high-income countries: 

• Ambiguity or lack of clarity in the 'why', 'what' and 'how' of the policy

• Misalignment between policy and its context (the social, cultural, political, economic, infrastructural and institutional settings where implementation happens)

Successful policy implementation, the authors contend, is underpinned by a lack of ambiguity in the policy and the quality of alignment between the policy and its context. Embedding a range of implementation support approaches in policy work can thus reduce policy failure.

The article "Implementation-minded policy making" is authored by current and former CEI staff Jane Lewis, Anne-Marie Baan, Emma Wills and Dr Eleanor Ott, in collaboration with Amy Lloyd and Dan Bristow from the Wales Centre for Public Policy, published as part of a new Policy Innovation Ideas series on PublicPolicy.ie.