Table Of ContentStudies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
Policy Capacity and
Governance
Assessing Governmental
Competences and Capabilities in
Theory and Practice
Edited by
Xun Wu, Michael Howlett
and M. Ramesh
Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
Series Editors
Toby Carroll
Department of Asian and International Studies
City University of Hong Kong
Paul Cammack
Department of Asian and International Studies
City University of Hong Kong
Kelly Gerard
School of Social Sciences
The University of Western Australia
Darryl S.L. Jarvis
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
The Education University of Hong Kong
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erodox and heterogeneous studies of sites of contestation, confl ict and
cooperation that explore policy processes and their consequences at
the local, national, regional or global levels. Fundamentally pluralist in
nature, the series is designed to provide high quality original research of
both a theoretical and empirical nature that supports a global network
of scholars exploring the implications of policy on society. The series is
supported by a diverse international advisory board drawn from Asia,
Europe, Australia, and North America, and welcomes manuscript sub-
missions from scholars in the global South and North that pioneer new
understandings of public policy.
International Advisory Board: Michael Howlett, Simon Fraser
University, Canada; John Hobson, University of Sheffi eld, UK;
Stuart Shields, University of Manchester, UK; Lee Jones, Queen Mary,
University of London, UK; Kanishka Jayasuriya, Murdoch University,
Australia; Shaun Breslin, University of Warwick, UK; Kevin Hewison,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Richard Stubbs, McMaster
University, Canada; Dick Bryan, University of Sydney, Australia; Kun-chin
Lin, University of Cambridge, UK; Apiwat Ratanawaraha, Chulalongkorn
University, Thailand; Wil Hout, Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus
University, The Netherlands; Penny Griffi n, University of New South
Wales, Australia; Philippe Zittoun, Science Po, Grenoble, France;
Heng Yee Kuang, University of Tokyo; Heloise Weber, University of
Queensland, Australia; Max Lane, Victoria University, Australia.
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Xun Wu · Michael Howlett · M. Ramesh
Editors
Policy Capacity
and Governance
Assessing Governmental Competences
and Capabilities in Theory and Practice
Editors
Xun Wu M. Ramesh
Division of Public Policy Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Hong Kong University of Science National University of Singapore
and Technology Singapore, Singapore
Hong Kong, China
Michael Howlett
Department of Political Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, Canada
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ontents
1 Policy Capacity: Conceptual Framework and Essential
Components 1
Xun Wu, M. Ramesh and Michael Howlett
Part I Conceptual and Measurement Issues
2 Policy Capacity in Public Administration 29
B. Guy Peters
3 Policy Analytical Capacity: The Supply and Demand
for Policy Analysis in Government 49
Michael Howlett
4 Measuring Policy Capacity Through Governance
Indices 67
Kris Hartley and Jingru Zhang
5 Measuring Policy Analytical Capacity
for the Environment: A Case for Engaging
New Actors 99
Angel Hsu
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Part II Theoretical and Empirical Issues
6 Innovation and the State: Towards an Evolutionary
Theory of Policy Capacity 123
Erkki Karo and Rainer Kattel
7 The Role of Analysts in Public Agencies: Toward
an Empirically Grounded Typology 151
Karol Olejniczak, Paweł Śliwowski and Rafał Trzciński
8 Policy Analytical Practice Investigated: Exploring
Sectoral Patterns in Use of Policy Analytical Techniques 179
Ellen Fobé, Valérie Pattyn, Marleen Brans and David Aubin
9 Government’s Credible Accountability and Strategic
Policy Capacity: Evidence from the Asian NICs
of Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore 203
O. Fiona Yap
10 Does Political Legitimacy Matter for Policy Capacity? 229
Honorata Mazepus
11 Interest Groups and Policy Capacity: Modes
of Engagement, Policy Goods and Networks 243
Carsten Daugbjerg, Bert Fraussen and Darren Halpin
Part III Case Studies
12 Building Organizational Political Capacity Through
Policy Learning: Communicating with Citizens
on Health and Safety in the UK 265
Claire A. Dunlop
13 Exploring Capacity for Strategic Policy Work: Water
Policy in Australia 289
Yvette Bettini and Brian W. Head
CONTENTS vii
14 Philanthropic Foundations in the City
Policy Process: A Perspective on Policy Capacity
from the United States 313
Madeleine Pill
15 Policy Capacity Within a Federation: The Case
of Australia 337
Scott Brenton
16 Dynamic Mechanisms for Resolving Collective
Incidents in China: A Policy Capacity Analysis 359
Jieren Hu, Guoqin Wang and Jingyan Fei
17 Policy-Related Expertise and Policy Work in Czech
Political Parties: Theory and Methods 385
Martin Polášek, Vilém Novotný and Michel Perottino
18 The Dynamic Nature of Policy Capacity: Internet
Policy in Italy, Belarus and Russia 411
Nina Belyaeva
Index 441
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ditors and ontributors
About the Editors
Xun Wu is a professor in the Division of Public Policy, Division of Social
Science and Division of Environment and Sustainability, Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology, where he is also Director of the
Institute for Public Policy and Leadership & Public Policy Executive
Education. Professor Wu is a policy scientist with a strong interest in the
linkage between policy analysis and public management. Trained in engi-
neering, economics, public administration, and policy analysis, his research
seeks to contribute to the design of effective public policies in dealing
with emerging policy challenges across Asian countries. His research inter-
ests include policy innovations, water resource management, health policy
reform, and anti-corruption, and his work has been published in top journals
in his fields of study, such as Policy Sciences, Public Administration Review,
Governance, Social Sciences & Medicine, and Water Resources Research.
Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Chair in the Department of
Political Science at Simon Fraser University and Yong Pung How Chair
Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National
University of Singapore. He specializes in public policy analysis, politi-
cal economy, and resource and environmental policy. His recent books
include Canadian Public Policy (University of Toronto Press, 2013),
Designing Public Policies (Routledge, 2011), Routledge Handbook of
Comparative Policy Analysis (Routledge, 2017), Varieties of Governance
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(Palgrave, 2015) and Policy Paradigms in Theory and Practice (Palgrave,
2015).
M. Ramesh is Professor and UNESCO Chair of Social Policy Design
in Asia at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, the National
University of Singapore. Previously, he held senior academic positions at
the Hong Kong Institute of Education, the University of Hong Kong,
and the University of Sydney. Specializing in public policy and govern-
ance in Asia with a particular focus on social policy, Ramesh has authored
or co-authored and edited many books, including Studying Public
Policy, Social Policy in East and Southeast Asia, and Welfare Capitalism
in Southeast Asia. He is the Editor of Policy and Society, and Associate
Editor of Journal of Economic Policy Reform.
Contributors
David Aubin holds a Ph.D. in political science from Université
catholique de Louvain (UCL, 2005). He is professor at UCL, where he
teaches policy analysis, evaluation and sustainability. As part of Belgian
and European comparative research projects, he studies policy work,
environmental policies, and the regulation of network industries. He has
been an invited scholar at Université de Montréal, Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven and the University of Colorado Denver, and has published in
journals such as Policy Sciences and Journal of Public Policy. He has also
co-edited books on multi-level telecoms regulation (Palgrave, 2014) as
well as Policy Analysis in Belgium (Policy Press, 2017).
Nina Belyaeva is a professor and head of public policy of National
Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. She received
her Ph.D. in Law and Public Policy from the Institute of State and Law
of Academy of Science. Her current research focuses on civil society
and protest publics as global phenomena. She teaches on civil society’s
influence on policy making at Bologna University, University of Turin,
Sciences Po Lyon and at the European Regional Master’s Programme
in Democracy and Human Rights at the University of Sarajevo. She has
recently published on global citizenship, global identity and protest pub-
lics in Moscow.
