Assessing and Improving Policymaking Practice: How the Sausage is Made

Assessing and Improving Policymaking Practice: How the Sausage is Made

13 FEB 2025

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McKinnon has commissioned the ‘How the Sausage is Made’ series to examine policymaking practices in Australia. This series of reports will provide insights into patterns of the good and poor dimensions of policy development, to identify key barriers to delivering quality policy. This supports McKinnon's wider agenda on identifying and advocating for system improvements to policymaking in Australia. This series will provide a set of findings and recommendations on how to improve policymaking processes and governance at a systematic level. 

Report One: Assessing Australian Policymaking Practices in the Energy Sector 

The first report of this series focuses on policymaking the energy sector, developed for SMF by the Blueprint Institute and McKell Institute (Feb 2025).

How the Sausage is Made

Published 13/02/2025

Policymaking Case Study Assessments

Published 13/02/2025

Previous reports on policymaking 

Our agenda builds on the previous work of the Evidence Based Policy Research Project (EBPRP), an independent not-for-profit organisation that advocated for evidence-based public policymaking. Between 2018 and 2022, EBPRP produced 100 case studies on the quality of public policymaking in Australia at both federal and state levels. 

Research on policy quality 2022 (Per Capita) >

Research on policy quality 2022 (Blueprint Institute) >

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