Thinking outside the box, improvisation, and fast learning: Designing policy robustness to deal with what cannot be foreseen.
Policies are continually subjected to turbulence and crises. Interest in policy robustness as a fundamental way to deal with what cannot be foreseen is increasing. Thus, there is a flourishing stream of literature suggesting that policies need to be designed to be agile and flexible. However, the as...
| Publicado en: | Public Administration Vol. 101; no. 1; pp. 90 - 106 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2023
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