Courses
HSD418
Challenges to Governance
Professor Aysnley Kellow and Professor Rod Rhodes
‘Government’ as a set of institutions is no longer synonymous with ‘government’ as a process. As a result, the term ‘governance’ is increasingly used to account for a growing number of situations where governance occurs without government. The reasons for this reflect not only a shift in the boundaries of the state, and a ‘hollowing out’ of government, but fundamental shifts in the competences of different levels of government, as local and global forces both undermine and overlay the capacity of nation-states in some areas, but strengthen the hand of nation-states in others. The increasing importance of non-governmental actors further complicates this picture.
HSD425
Policy Implementation and Evaluation
Professor Rod Rhodes and Dr Hannah Murphy
This course is offered at Honours, Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Masters levels. It explores major conceptual, empirical and normative issues surrounding the implementation and evaluation of public policy. Both of these phases of the policy process are examined separately and in relation to each other and to other concepts such as compliance, effectiveness, policy learning and accountability. The growing importance of policy implementation and evaluation is reflected in a burgeoning literature from official government sources and various fields of academia. This literature is critically analysed. So-called lessons for successful implementation are identified along with implementation ‘traps’. Measure for enhancing policy compliance and policy learning are examined. Finally, the purposes, types and methods of evaluation are surveyed.
