Sarah Ball

The Australian Policy Handbook A Practical Guide to the Policymaking Process

Catherine Althaus, Sarah Ball, Peter Bridgman, Glyn Davis, David Threlfall

Book  |  2022

The seventh edition of this classic handbook on the policy process is fully updated, featuring new material on policy making amid ..

Ethical moments and institutional expertise in UK Government COVID-19 pandemic policy responses: where, when and how is ethical advice sought?

Jessica Pykett, Sarah Ball, Robert Dingwall, Robert Lepenies, Theresa Sommer, Holger Strassheim, Lars Wenzel

Journal article  |  2022  |  Evidence & Policy

Background:The emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic has required a rapid acceleration of policy decision making, and raised..

Can Robots Understand Welfare? Exploring Machine Bureaucracies in Welfare-to-Work

Mark Considine, Michael Mcgann, Sarah Ball, Phuc Nguyen

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF SOCIAL POLICY

The exercise of administrative discretion by street-level workers plays a key role in shaping citizens' access to welfare and empl..

Behavioural Public Policy in Australia: How an Idea Became Practice

S Ball

Book  |  2022

Using rich ethnographic data and first-hand experience, Ball presents a detailed account of Australia's attempts to incorporate be..

Knowledge coproduction: panacea or placebo? Lessons from an emerging policy partnership

Tim Reddel, Sarah Ball

Journal article  |  2021  |  POLICY DESIGN AND PRACTICE

Governments across the globe have expressed their interest in forms of codesign and coproduction as a useful tool for crafting pol..

Translating behavioral public policy into practice: Interpretations and traditions

Sarah Ball

Journal article  |  2021  |  CRITICAL POLICY STUDIES

Behavioral public policy (BPP) has become increasingly popular with governments across the globe but what defines it in practice? ..

Dramaturgy and crisis management: A third act

Sarah Ball, Allan McConnell, Alastair Stark

Journal article  |  2021  |  PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Dramaturgical perspectives have been used successfully in the past by crisis management researchers. However, previous contributio..

Behavioural insights teams in practice: nudge missions and methods on trial

Sarah Ball, Brian W Head

Journal article  |  2021  |  POLICY AND POLITICS

Behavioural and experimental projects have become increasingly popular with policymakers. Behavioural insights teams have used sev..

The boundaries of Behavioural Insights: Observations from two ethnographic studies

S Ball, J Feitsma

Journal article  |  2020  |  Evidence and Policy

Background: `Behavioural Insights' has emerged as an increasingly popular approach to policy making in governments across the glob..

How far to nudge? Assessing behavioural public policy

Sarah Ball

Journal article  |  2019  |  LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDIES