Part I: Reflections on the Aotearoa New Zealand policy process: Governments stuff up all the time: why expect Aotearoa New Zealand to be different? / Sonia Mazey and Jeremy Richardson -- Aotearoa New Zealand postwar governments: changing policy styles / Brian Easton -- The promise of rangatiratanga: Te Tiriti o Waitangi, a major source of the New Zealand constitution / Lisa Tumahai, with James Harding -- Part II: Insider perspectives: Making policy perform: insights from hindsight / Rod Carr, with James Carr -- Dynamic change and the adaptive state / David Cunliffe -- The helicopter view and the political will: how good policies become law / Lianne Dalziel -- Public servants respond best to bold challenges / Peter Dunne -- Managing so the Prime Minister can lead: the role of the Prime Minister's Office in the policy process / Wayne Eagleson -- Better public policy via feedback thinking / Bill English -- Both outside and inside: reflections on the Wellington policy farm / Peter Gluckman -- Ensuring our public policy ecosystem is healthy and thriving / Nikki Kaye -- High autonomy, high alignment: coordinating a more unified public service / Peter Hughes and Rodney Scott -- Environmental policy in New Zealand: tracing the roots of dysfunction / Catherine Knight -- 'Why didn't it work?' What goes wrong between ministers and officials in making public policy / Anneliese Parkin -- Policy-making in New Zealand: a perspective from close at hand / Maarten Wevers -- Part III: Outsider perspectives: Building failure: how broken local government financing models lead to housing policy failures / Eric Crampton -- Non-governmental organisations and the policy process / Kevin Hague -- The right to develop and the right to manage: is the New Zealand policy system broken? / Kirk Hope -- Organising against poverty: national policy-making and local policy implementation / Ricardo Menendez March -- Intramural policy-making and innovative change to healthcare delivery / David Smyth -- The emerging tripartism: co-designing policy solutions / Richard Wagstaff -- Part IV: Conclusion: Beyond muddling through: a reform agenda / Sonia Mazey and Jeremy Richardson.
Summary:
"Public policy-making in Aotearoa New Zealand has a patchy track record. In many policy sectors New Zealand performs no worse than other advanced democracies, and in some it is recognised as world leading. But it is clear that the system is under pressure, confronted with an endless conveyor belt of problems. By international standards, New Zealand ranks poorly in some sectors, notably child poverty, affordable housing, youth suicide, water pollution and obesity. To better serve the 'team of five million', how can the public policy process be improved?" -- Provided by publisher.
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