Policy Design and Delivery: Influencing Public Behaviour
| 14 - 16 March 2012, Sydney |
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Program overview
Governments are increasingly in the business of influencing the behaviour of their citizens. There are strong economic, social and environmental reasons that motivate them to do so. However, as governments ‘nudge’ citizens towards preferred behaviours, there are specific ‘compliance’ obstacles that the policy maker faces.
This executive workshop examines specific cases of compliance problems from a variety of policy sectors and countries. It draws upon social psychology, behavioural economics, law and political science to understand reasons for compliance or non-compliance. It focuses on analysing why the targets of public policies frequently fail to act in the way that program designers intend and want, and understanding alternative approaches that program designers and implementers can use to increase compliance.
Throughout the course, there will be a strong emphasis on analysing case materials. Both international and regional cases will be discussed, including smoking bans in Victoria, flood evacuation orders in northern NSW and earthquake preparations in New Zealand, condom use by commercial sex workers in Sydney, and various examples of business non-compliance.
Who should attend?
The workshop will be valuable for senior and middle level managers throughout the public sector. The course is designed to benefit those who hope to change or influence the behaviour of citizens or organisations in the pursuit of policies and programs. In particular, managers and senior policy analysts with responsibility for compliance will find the course very useful.
Those who are involved in the design or implementation of policy –whether in the fields of public health, social welfare, environmental control, emergency management, business regulation or other areas of compliance – will be suitable participants.
Participant benefits
At the end of the program participants will be better equipped to:
- understand some of the drivers behind compliance and non-compliance with government policies
- identify the most efficient solutions to theoretical policy problems
- identify likely obstacles in making proposed solutions work in practice
- develop organisational capacity to overcome obstacles
- harness the power of evidence in policy making for behaviour change
- explore the roles of public communication and education in building compliance.
Course leader - Professor Kent Weaver
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ent Weaver joined the Georgetown Public Policy Institute as Professor of Public Policy in 2002 after 19 years at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to Brookings, Prof Weaver taught in the Political Science Department at the Ohio State University for two years. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University.
Prof Weaver’s major fields of interest are comparative and American social policy, comparative political institutions, and the politics of expertise. He is particularly interested in understanding how political institutions, past policy choices and the motivations of politicians interact to shape public policy choices. Prof Weaver is the author of Ending welfare as we know it (Brookings, 2000), Automatic government: the politics of indexation (Brookings, 1988) and The politics of industrial change (Brookings, 1985). He has served as co-director of the Welfare Reform & Beyond Initiative at Brookings, which sought to build a better understanding of social science research findings among policymakers. He is currently completing a book on what the United States can learn from the experiences of other advanced industrial countries in reforming their public pension systems. He is also writing another book on how states have implemented welfare reform legislation in the United States.
Prof Weaver teaches courses on complying with public policy, policy implementation and the welfare state, comparative policy and the American policy process.
Prof Kent Weaver talks to ANZSOG about his recent work and new executive workshop
Prof Kent Weaver spoke with ANZSOG about the importance of the policy implementation process and how this will be addressed in his brand new ANZSOG executive workshop, Policy Design and Delivery: Influencing Public Behaviour. Although your work is well known in academic circles 'Down Under', public servants here don’t know much about you. How would you characterise your applied work that might resonate with public sector professionals in Australia and New Zealand? Much of my applied work concerns problems that arise in the policy implementation process—everything from poor coordination between agencies and levels of government, to a poor fit between new tasks and the organizational mission and culture of an implementing agency, to failure to provide adequate staff and financial resources, to perverse incentives and other constraints that confront overstretched front-line workers. I believe that many of these potential problems can be identified in...
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Delivery mode
Three days, residential or non-residential
Fee
Non-residential: $AU3,750 (incl GST)
Residential: $AU4,500 (incl GST)
*ANZSOG Alumni receive a 15% discount.
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