“Many of the policies that result from our democratic processes simply do not live up to their intent,” writes Jennifer Pahlka, author of Recoding America, adding that “much of the failure is not deliberate; it is the result, in part, of an outdated model that keeps policymaking and policy implementation as separate domains, with separate skills and incentives.”
One area where this divide between policy and implementation shows up—and an opportunity for addressing it—is in academia, where programs often focus exclusively on public policy or on public administration.
How might universities bridge this gap in order to improve policy outcomes and increase government capacity for service delivery? What can we learn from recent experiments, and what other ideas might be worth pursuing?
Join us, either in person (with lunch served) or online, for a panel discussion and Q&A with the authors of three blog posts on this subject:
“Are Public Policy Degrees Too Narrow?” — by Greg Jordan-Detamore, Senior Consultant at Nava and writer of Civic Insighter
“On Policy Schools” — by Emily Tavoulareas, Managing Chair of the Tech & Society Initiative at Georgetown University and writer and course designer
“Hacking the Harvard Kennedy School Core—By Getting Out Of The Classroom” — by Nick Sinai, co-author of Hack Your Bureaucracy, Senior Advisor at Insight Partners, and adjunct faculty at Harvard
The panel will be moderated by Martelle Esposito, Partnerships and Evaluation Manager at Nava.
Schedule
11 AM–12 PM: Lunch
12–1 PM: Panel presentation
1–2 PM: Networking
