Design science in public policy and administration research: how to actually apply it?

Abstract

This is a blog about our recent article in Policy & Politics, in which we argue that scholars in the field of public policy and administration need to rethink their usual ‘bystander’ approach to designing policy and, instead, engage more in experimentation and interventions that can help change and improve governance systems. In this respect, design science appears to provide an effective way of integrating traditional science with intervention-oriented design work