Policycraft
Ashley ChallinorPublic policymaking is a profession. Stay up-to-date on yours with fresh thinking, research, and best practices from across Canada and around the world.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Monthly |
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| Issues | 19 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 22 days ago |
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Issue 18 - Wicked: For Real
WELCOME
Policycraft is built on the conviction that policymaking is a profession worth treating as one. Like every profession, it accumulates a vocabulary: doctors have theirs, lawyers have theirs, and policy wonks have ours. While acqu...
Issue 17: Strike that. Reverse it.
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Ever heard of mechanism design? This is a new concept to me, but a pair of articles I read recently — one on the American food bank auction market and the other on transferable development rights — sent me down a rabbit hole....
Issue 16: Missions, impossible?
This month’s Policycraft brings together a set of commentaries and resources on a single question: why is mission-oriented government so hard to do well?
I assume, like me, many of you read Mariana Mazzucato’s work on mission-oriented gove...
Issue 15: The riddle of the model
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This month’s issue of Policycraft explores some fundamental questions about our mental models of public policy, from the way we orient public services to the decisions we make about what public policy even means.
But before we...
Issue 14: Pick yourself up and dust yourself off from policy failure
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