New book: A toolkit for anyone working to tackle wicked problems
The wicked problems pile up in society. Many grand plans, projects and policies never come to fruition. A new book presents a toolbox for those tackling the wicked problems.
In Denmark, we pride ourselves on a well-ordered welfare society. We have solved most of the tame problems - built roads, built schools and treated citizens in hospitals. But today we are left with the wicked problems that are harder to deal with. How do we strengthen public health, provide more employees for a tight labor market, lift the socially disadvantaged, improve learning for the weakest in primary schools, counteract young people's dissatisfaction, reduce crime and tackle the climate crisis?
In wicked problems, 23 researchers and practitioners look wicked problems in the eye. They fill the toolbox with new data, instructive cases and practical tools to help us solve today's most pressing problems.
"We are facing the paradox of modern democracy: the problems are getting wilder while the solutions are getting tamer."
The book is edited by Sigge Winther Nielsen, Director of the think tank INVI - Institute for wicked Problems. He has published several books and scientific articles on modern politics and is the author of the critically acclaimed Entrepreneurial State (2021), which this book builds on.
The book wicked problems - Toolkit for policy makers, practitioners and policy entrepreneurs was published on October 30, 2023.
Contributors
Sigge Winther Nielsen
Dorte Bukdahl
Asmus Leth Olsen
Carsten Greve
Anne Tortzen
Carsten Strømbæk Pedersen
Christian Bason
Sara Gry Striegler
Thomas Gyldal Petersen
Claus Hjortdal
Gordon Ørskov Madsen
Anders Dybdal
Britt Wendelboe
Kristoffer Milling
Martin Østergaard Christensen
Trine Kiil Naldal
Ina Bøge Eskildsen
Oda Bagøien Hustad
Jacob Torfing
Alexander L.Q. Chen
Vibeke Normann Andersen
Anna Mollerup
Mads Leth Felsager Jakobsen
See the book's table of contents here.
The book will be published on October 30th by Nord Academic/ Gads Forlag.