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Evidence for Public Policy Design

How to Learn from Best Practice

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  • © 2013

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  1. Paola Coletti
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Paola Coletti
    Pages 1-4

  3. The Diffusion of Best Practices in the Public Sector

    • Paola Coletti
    Pages 5-18

  4. The Diffusion of the Standard Cost Model

    • Paola Coletti
    Pages 19-27

  5. The Standard Cost Model in the Netherlands

    • Paola Coletti
    Pages 28-50

  6. The Transfer of the Standard Cost Model in Denmark

    • Paola Coletti
    Pages 51-68

  7. What Emerges from the Case Studies?

    • Paola Coletti
    Pages 69-84

  8. Conclusion

    • Paola Coletti
    Pages 85-91

  9. Appendix: How to Learn from Vicarious Experience

    • Paola Coletti
    Pages 92-94

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 95-108
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About this book

Learning from the successes and failures of others is a necessity in the field of public sector innovation. This book develops guidelines for policymakers, practitioners and policy analysts to understand what drives policy success and to transfer innovations from a source case to a target case with a view to assisting effective policy design.

About the author

Paola Coletti has a PhD in public policy Analysis at university of Pavia. She received a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at Polytechnic of Milan in Public Policy Analysis (2007-2010). Her scientific interests include public policy analysis, with specific reference to the theories and methods for decision analysis and evaluation, public administration and local government.

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