Intro
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of figures
List of tables
Abbreviations
Contributors
Part 1. Theorising, teaching and learning about policymaking
1. Public policy theory, practice and teaching: Investigating the interactions
2. A quixotic quest? Making theory speak to practice
3. What can policy theory offer busy practitioners? Investigating the Australian experience
4. Delivering public policy programs to senior executives in government-the Australia and New Zealand School of Government 2002-18
5. How do policy professionals in New Zealand use academic research in their work?
6. The dilemmas of managing parliament: Promoting awareness of public management theories to parliamentary administrators
Part 2. Putting policymaking theory into practice
7. Public policy processes in Australia: Reflections from experience
8. Using the policy cycle: Practice into theory and back again
9. Succeeding and failing in crafting environment policy: Can public policy theories help?
10. Understanding the policymaking enterprise: Foucault among the bureaucrats
11. The practical realities of policy on the run: A practitioner's response to academic policy frameworks
12. Documenting the link between policy theory and practice in a government department: A map of sea without any land
Part 3. How can theory better inform practice and vice versa?
13. Taking lessons from policy theory into practice
14. Synthesising models, theories and frameworks for public policy: Implications for the future
15. Public policy theory, practice and skills: Advancing the debate.