{"id":748,"date":"2017-02-10T10:35:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T15:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonathancraft.ca\/?page_id=748"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:26:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:26:03","slug":"current-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonathancraft.ca\/index.php\/current-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Projects in development<\/strong><b><i><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Books<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Policymaking in Canada: Capacity, Practice, and Effectiveness (eds with Michael Howlett, Palgrave Press.) <\/strong>This \u2018state of the art\u2019 collection convenes a set of leading Canadian scholars to provide critical insights and appraisals of contemporary policy-making in Canada. The collection examines how the Canadian policy-making system operates, how analysis is generated, brokered, and consumed in Canada\u2019s orders of government and by other key actors. It explores whether and how the state can more capably address major contemporary policy and governance challenges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Avoiding Unicorns and Fairy Dust: Policy Design and Performance in Digital Westminster.\u00a0<\/strong> How has digital government impacted policy design? Informed by interviews with key public servants, this book compares the strategies, organizational approaches, and policy design practices in Australia, Canada, Britain, and New Zealand. Analysis reveals significant variation &#8211; with rhetoric far outpacing practice in some countries, while others have experienced meaningful modernization. The book argues that to varying degrees four newer types of &#8216;low fidelity&#8217; policy design are occurring. These are contingent upon the quality of feedback available to designers and their ability to integrate it into policy design and include: confident iteration &amp; stress testing, advocacy &amp; hacking, tinkering &amp; shots in the dark, or coping. The book explores the conditions that favour and constrain low fidelity policy design.\u00a0 The initial focus on service level &#8216;delivery&#8217; is argued to have hampered digital era approaches. I argue for &#8216;upstreaming&#8217; of digital ways of working earlier in policy processes coupled with greater attention to design performance through institutionalization of appropriate policy &#8216;loops&#8217; and &#8216;gates&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Governance in Turbulent Times: Canada in Comparative Perspective (eds. with E. Lindquist, University of British Columbia Press).\u00a0<\/strong>This edited collection deepens and enriches perspectives on broad questions of governance and public administration in periods of turbulence.\u00a0 It locates Canadian practice and reform strategies which often lag other countries that feature more consistent and stronger responses. Turbulence makes it difficult for governments and observers to get their bearings, to adapt, and to adopt reforms with confidence. The collection features leading Canadian and international scholars engaging on specific topics\u00a0to develop a better sense of what Canada is experiencing, compare\u00a0Canada to other jurisdictions,\u00a0and to identify governance and public service reform strategies for Canada.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Centres of Government: Trends and Tactics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Cabinets, Central agencies, and the political offices of Prime Ministers are unique and important sites of policymaking and governance.\u00a0With an eye to enduring and new developments, this book departs from debates about the relative influence or centralization of power to comparative analysis focused on the organizational, strategic, and tactical approaches used by centres of government in specific policy domains and across complex governing environments. It charts and analyzes the ways by\u00a0which actors and organizations at the centre of government have sought to manage and advance policymaking in today&#8217;s governing contexts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Policy Ready Digital<\/em><em> Government Case Study Series\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A collection of open access case studies in partnership with Code for Canada and the Institute for Public Administration are available open access through Policy Ready\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.policyready.ca\/digital-government-case-study-series\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 New cases are always, welcome, get in touch if you would like to collaborate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><em>Scholarly Articles in progress<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Craft, J. (2024). Policy Feedback and Policy Advisory Systems Dynamics:\u00a0Exploring Mechanisms and Effects. Revise and Resubmit, Policy Studies Journal<\/li>\n<li>Craft, J.\u00a0\u00a0Performance or Performative: Westminster Systems and Digital Government Performance Management.<\/li>\n<li>Craft, J.\u00a0 Comparing\u00a0 Policy Design in Digital Era Westminster Style Government.<\/li>\n<li>Craft, J., Henderson, S. Digital Era Federalism:\u00a0COVID and Intergovernmental Relations in Australia and Canada.<\/li>\n<li>Craft, J.\u00a0 Centres of Government: Comparative Perspectives and New Developments.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong><em>Book Chapters in development<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Craft, J. Yes, the public service has enough independence from political control. Ohemang, Leone, Shepherd (eds) Core debates in Public Administration.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Craft, J., Lindquist E. Turbulence and Governance: Taking Stock and Putting Canada in Comparative Perspective, in Craft and Lindquist (eds.),\u00a0Governance: Canada in Comparative Perspective.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Husted, T. Craft, J.\u00a0 Advising Governments in a Crowded and bumpy Landscape: Practices, Systems, and Managing the Mix, in Craft and Lindquist (eds.)\u00a0Governance: Canada in Comparative Perspective.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Projects in development Books Policymaking in Canada: Capacity, Practice, and Effectiveness (eds with Michael Howlett, Palgrave Press.) This \u2018state of the art\u2019 collection convenes a set of leading Canadian scholars to provide critical insights and appraisals of contemporary policy-making in Canada. The collection examines how the Canadian policy-making system operates, how analysis is generated, brokered, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonathancraft.ca\/index.php\/current-projects\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Current Projects&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-748","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathancraft.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathancraft.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathancraft.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathancraft.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathancraft.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":141,"href":"https:\/\/jonathancraft.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/jonathancraft.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/748\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathancraft.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}