Academic-Policy Engagement: How-To Guides - Routes for academic-policy engagement - How-To Guide

Check out organisations (NGOs), and even academics! the other guides under the 'Routes to Engagement' section 3 Academic-Policy Engagement: How-To Guides The policymaking process The reality of the policymaking 'cycle' is that external factors such as political pressures, Cabinet, staff turnover, legacy policies and the media often mean that the process of developing a policy can be messy. [...] Academic-Policy Engagement: How-To Guides 9 Policymaking in the UK Separation of Powers in the UK At the UK-level, there are three branches that develop public policy The legislature makes laws by The Government is the executive The judiciary enforce the passing legislation. [...] There are also many other groups that help shape policy, including think tanks, private sector lobbyists, campaigners from charities and non-governmental organisations, and even academics! The devolved administrations of Scotland and Wales While the UK Government is responsible for aspects of the Constitution, international relations, and national defence, the Scottish and Welsh Governments, as we. [...] Both the Scottish Parliament and the Senedd are unicameral legislatures and are often referred to by their shorthand – ‘Holyrood’ for the Scottish Parliament or ‘Cardiff Bay’ for the Senedd, just as the UK Parliament is often referred to as ‘Westminster’. [...] It represents London's borough councils and the City of London and advocates for their needs and priorities at the regional, national, and international levels.