Policymaking
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Policymakers
Guide
Policy skills framework: map your policy skills profile
This tool has been designed to help policy practitioners articulate their policy skills profile. It can be used: When applying for jobs To support conversations with your manager (or others) about your development and training needs and your policy career progression Templates are provided to assess your current skills and to think about how you...
Book
Palaszczuk’s second year: an overview of 2016
This publication is the fifth in a series of Queensland political chronicles published by the TJ Ryan Foundation since 2012. Through a collection of themed chapters, the book’s authors provide an ‘overview’ assessment of the second year in office of the Palaszczuk Government in Queensland. The book draws largely upon the Foundation's own catalogue of...
Report
People-centred policy: through behavioural insights, design thinking and better use of data
The Policy Project collaborated with the Government Economics Network (GEN) committee to facilitate workshops following the 2016 GEN conference on ‘People and Policy – how to make better and smarter policies through behavioural insights, design thinking and better use of data’. This document records:
Report
World development report 2017
Ineffective policies can persist, while potentially effective policies are often not adopted. World development report 2017: governance and the law explores why some policies fail to achieve desired outcomes and what makes other policies work.
Briefing paper
10 things to know about how to influence policy with research
Public policies that seek to address social challenges will only work if the choices made by decision-makers are informed by the best available evidence. This guide presents ten tips for using research to influence policy.