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This paper aims to develop a framework for understanding the complexities of policy outcomes beyond binary success or failure.

Policy Success, Policy Failure and Grey Areas In-Between

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Framework captures policy outcomes in terms of success and failure, highlighting complexities in evaluation.

This paper aims to develop a framework for understanding the complexities of policy outcomes beyond binary success or failure.
Reviews existing literature on policy evaluation, public value, and political strategy.
Conceives policy in three realms: processes, programs, and politics.
Identifies bundles of outcomes to evaluate policy success and failure.
Establishes a spectrum of policy outcomes: resilient success, conflicted success, precarious success, and failure.
Highlights contradictions between what is considered good politics and bad policy.

Allan McConnell (2010) studied this question.

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