Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He specializes in public policy analysis and resource and environmental policy.

Ishani Mukherjee is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Singapore Management University. She specializes in the environmental and energy policy domain with an emphasis on policy instruments for resource sustainability, renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Part 1: Policy Design: From an Old to a New Orientation 1. Introduction: The Importance of Policy Design: Effective Processes, Tools and Outcomes [Michael Howlett and Ishani Mukherjee] 2. The Contexts and Components of Policy Design: Governance Modes and Policy Regimes [Michael Howlett] 3. Designing Complex Policy Mixes: Elements, Processes and Characteristics [Karoline S. Rogge] 4. The Promise of Co-Design for Public Policy [Emma Blomkamp] Part 2: Policy Problems and Policy Design: Linking Problems and Targets 5. Policy Instruments and Policy Design Choices: Selecting Substantive and Procedural Tools in Public Policymaking [Michael Howlett] 6. Persuasive Systems Design: Key Issues, Process Model, and System Features [Harri Oinas-Kukkonen and Marja Harjumaa] 7. Aligning Policy Tools and Their Targets: Nudging and Utility Maximization in Policy Design [Michael Howlett] 8. Design Thinking in Public Policy [Michael Mintrom and Joannah Luetjens] 9. Understanding Policy Designs over Time: Layering, Stretching, Patching and Packaging [Michael Howlett, Ishani Mukherjee, and Jeremy Rayner] Part 3: Policy Designers - Agency and Actors 10. Thinking Outside the Box? Applying Design Theory to Public Policy [Mark Considine] 11. Perspectives on Policy Analysis: A Framework for Understanding and Design [Igor S. Mayer, C. Els van Daalen and Pieter W. G. Bots] 12. Instrument Constituencies: Promoting Policy Designs [Jan-Peter Voß and Arno Simons] 13. Policy Design and Policy Advisory Systems [Thurid Hustedt] 14. Policy Design and Conflict [Saba Siddiki] Part 4: Reconsidering Foundational and New Policy Tools 15. Nudges and Nodality Tools: New Developments in Old Instruments [Colin R. Kuehnhanss] 16. Authority Tools: Pervasive, Persistent and Powerful [Arie Freiberg] 17. Treasure Tools: A Primer on Subsidies [Ronald Steenblik] 18. Designing Organizational Tools: Tool Choices as Administrative Reforms [Per Laegreid] 19. Digital Tools for Rapid Policy Design [Justin Longo] Part 5: Design Conditions and Contexts 20. Policy Design and Non-Design - A Continuum of Formulation Modalities [Michael Howlett and Ishani Mukherjee] 21. Linking Policy Design and Implementation Styles [Jale Tosun and Oliver Treib] 22. Policy Capacity: A Design Perspective [Azad Singh Bali and M Ramesh] 23. Crowdsourcing and Policy Design [Araz Taeihagh] 24. Capacities and Customization in Policy Design [Ishani Mukherjee and Azad Singh Bali] Part 6: Gauging Effectiveness in Policy Designs 25. Gauging Effectiveness: First and Second-Best Policy Design [Ishani Mukherjee and Michael Howlett] 26. Coherence, Congruence and Consistency in Policy Mixes [Michael Howlett and Jeremy Rayner] 27. Managing Uncertainty: Controlling for Conflicts in Policy Mixes [Pablo del Río] 28. Agility and Robustness as Design Criteria [Giliberto Capano and J.J. Woo] 29. How to Sequence Policies: The PM-ARM Approach [Araz Taeihagh]