Public inquiries, policy learning, and the threat of future crises / Alastair Stark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stark, Alastair, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Governmental investigations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This text examines the extent to which post-crisis inquiries actually do deliver effective lesson-learning and thereby reduce vulnerability to future threats.

Contents:

Cover

Public Inquiries, Policy Learning, and the Threat of Future Crises

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figure and Table

1: Failing to Learn: The State or the Academy?

INTRODUCTION

THE SORRY STATE OF THE ART

FOCUS AND DESIGN: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND ANALYTICAL PROCESS

FINDINGS, ARGUMENTS, AND VARIABLES

CHAPTER OUTLINE

2: Types of Policy Learning and the Inquiry Process

TYPES OF LEARNING AND POST-CRISIS INQUIRIES

INDIVIDUAL POLICY LEARNING

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY LEARNING

SINGLE AND DOUBLE LOOP POLICY LEARNING

POLICY LEARNING IN POLITICAL SCIENCE

A POLICY LEARNING TYPOLOGY

RECONCEPTUALIZING THE INQUIRY PROCESS

QUESTIONING LINEARITY AND SEQUENCE

CONCLUSION

3: Inquiry Agents and their Logics for Action

NOT THE USUAL SUSPECTS: AGENTS WHO HAVE ESCAPED ANALYSIS

EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES

STREET-LEVEL BUREAUCRATS

ADVOCACY COALITIONS

LOGICS FOR ACTION

POLITICAL LOGICS AND THE MOBILIZATION OF BIAS

LEGAL-JUDICIAL LOGICS

THE LOGIC OF STRUCTURAL LEGITIMATION

HINDSIGHT AND NORMALIZING LOGICS

SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL LOGICS

THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN LOGICS FOR ACTION

4: Priming the Analysis

SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME AND THE SARS COMMISSION

Inquiry Focus: A Willingness to Confront the Nasty Issues

Inquiry Format: Trading Anonymity for Candour

Reports and Recommendations

The Reform Agenda

THE UK SUMMER FLOODS AND THE PITT REVIEW

Inquiry Focus: Allocating Responsibility for Crisis Management

Inquiry Format: A Very Managerial Affair

THE BLACK SATURDAY BUSHFIRES AND THE VICTORIAN BUSHFIRES ROYAL COMMISSION

Inquiry Focus: Policy Values and Policy Tools.

Inquiry Format: A Novel Synthesis

THE CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKES ROYAL COMMISSION

Inquiry Focus: A Dual Mandate

Inquiry Format: Three Modes of Analysis

5: Lesson-Learning and Resilience to Future Crises

INSTRUMENTAL POLICY LEARNING

The Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission

The Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission

The SARS Commission

COGNITIVE ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING

The Pitt Review

SINGLE VERSUS DOUBLE LOOP AND SOCIAL LEARNING

6: Crafting and Forgetting Policy Lessons

SEQUENCED AND CONSTELLATED LEARNING

THE CRAFT OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION: CREATING LESSONS THAT CAN TRAVEL

INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY AND THE SHELF-LIFE OF LESSONS LEARNED

7: Policy Refiners and Street-Level Lesson Learners

POLICY REFINERS

8: Logics for Action and Conventional Wisdom

POLITICAL LOGICS, THE MOBILIZATION OF BIAS, AND PLURALISTIC POLITICS

GETTING THINGS DONE: THE IMPORTANCE OF A PUBLIC-MANAGERIAL LOGIC FOR ACTION

THE LEGAL-JUDICIAL LOGIC: REPRESENTATION, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND ADVERSARIALISM

Conclusion

ONE LAST TIME: INQUIRIES ARE EFFECTIVE POLICY LEARNERS!

A RE-BOOTED VIEW OF THE INQUIRY

IMPROVING INQUIRIES AND POST-CRISISPOLICY LEARNING

Bibliography

Index of Names

Index.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-256799-3

0-19-186981-3

0-19-256798-5

OCLC:

1048943886