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Using opportunity costs to counter “one-shot bias” in policy innovation
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Allocating scarce resources to meet policy objectives incurs opportunity costs. Public servants face an increasingly significant opportunity-cost dilemma between resourcing the incremental adaption of existing systems of service delivery and investing in their replacement through radical but risky innovation. Should a government’s limited time, money, and brainpower be spent on low-risk, low-change adaptation, or on high-risk, high-change innovation? Attitudes among policy-makers towards this...
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+ Sullivan, H
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+ Dickinson, H
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+ Henderson, H
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- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan Publisher's website
- Pages:
- 1665-1684
- Host title:
- The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant
- Place of publication:
- Cham, Switzerland
- Publication date:
- 2021-06-01
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9783030299804
- Source identifiers:
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1074397
- ISBN:
- 9783030299798
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- English
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- Copyright date:
- 2021
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