Social investment :  a New Zealand policy experiment / 
 New Zealand policy experiment 
edited by Jonathan Boston and Derek Gill. 
 - 448 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> The Nature, Origins and Evolution of Social Investment : --  Overview - key issues and themes /  Defining social investment, Kiwi-style /  Broader perspectives /  The intertemporal dimension /  Assessing the merits of early intervention /  Challenges for the public management system /  The Design and Application of the Social Investment Approach : --  Prediction and social investment /  Evidence for social investment What is it and how might we collectively learn to inform decision-making? /  Information requirements Understanding in the social investment feedback loop /  Data infrastructure and analytical capability /  Implementing social investment Pharmac's experience /  Minding the implementation gap NGO social service delivery and the social investment approach /  Policy delivery is risky The administrative and political uncertainty of making policy happen /  Future Directions and Applications : --  The justice sector Opportunities and challenges /  The implications for the education sector /  A social investment approach for research funding and impact /  Critical Perspectives : --  A social democratic critique /  Corked wine in a cracked bottle The long-term fiscal redistribution model and recent reforms in the New Zealand welfare state /  Social investment in a complex and radically uncertain world /  Exposing and challenging the underlying assumptions of social investment /  Concluding Reflections : --  Governance, public policy and public management /  Jonathan Boston and Derek Gill --  Killian Destremau and Peter Wilson --  Michael Mintrom --  Jonathan Boston --  Sarah Hogan --  Derek Gill --  Tim Hughes --  Gail Kelly and Isabelle Collins --  Amanda Wolf --  Simon Wakeman and Diane Garrett --  Peter Alsop and Steffan Crausaz --  Jo Cribb --  John Yeabsley --  Warren Young --  Gary Hawke --  Verna Smith, Ben Apted, Holly Briffa and Alex Collie --  Michael Cullen --  Simon Chapple --  Elizabeth Eppel and Girol Karacaoglu --  David Hanna --  Graham Scott  Part I.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  Part II.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  13.  Part III.  14.  15.  16.  Part IV.  17.  18.  19.  20.  Part V.  21. 
<br/><br/> "For almost a decade, the idea of social investment has been a major focus of New Zealand policy-making and policy debate. The broad aim has been to address serious social problems and improve long-term fiscal outcomes by drawing on big data and deploying various analytical techniques to enable more evidence-informed policy interventions. But recent approaches to social investment have been controversial. In late 2017, the new Labour-New Zealand First government announced a review of the previous government's policies. As ideas about social investment evolve, this book brings together leading academics, commentators and policy analysts from the public and private sectors to answer three big questions: How should social investment be defined and conceptualized? How should it be put into practice? In what policy domains can it be most productively applied?."--Back cover. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781988533582 1988533589 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social policy--New Zealand<br/>Social problems--New Zealand
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>361.610993