Navigating Public Sector Policy Analysis with a Strategic Lens

Dear Colleagues,

In the very unpredictable world of the early 21st century, the analysis of public policy and management has come under challenge. Simplistic assumptions about public policy using a top-down analysis are redundant, given that stakeholders are involved in policy formulation, including local communities, citizen groups, and multiple economic interests. Public service delivery has also been subject to radical change through e-government, digitisation, and co-production. Knowledge about public policy and management reform is also rapidly circulated and transferred between states, while at the same time, there have been calls for professionalisation and credentialism of public servants.

As a result of this complexity, which includes greater involvement from stakeholders and multiple modes of public service delivery, the tools of strategy are now being used to a greater degree in the analysis of public policy. However, this has created issues of governance and accountability. Therefore, this Special Issue is timed to invite public policy and management academics to consider how a ‘strategic lens’ can be used to inform better policy making and to offer new insights into navigating the analysis of public policy. The Special Issue also recognises the broad scope of issues that strategy generates for a wide variety of public services.

Dr. Richard K. Common
Guest Editor

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