ABSTRACT
Policy change and reform may in turn introduce familiar solutions or bring about innovation whether incremental, structural, or disruptive which is a solution seen by observers as both useful and original relative to the context in which it is introduced. The types of innovation covered in this book include social innovation (solutions that address social needs), policy innovation (new public policies), democratic innovation (in the forms, institutions, processes of democratic governance), and political innovation (which, in our case, refers specifically to novel political campaigning approaches). The legitimacy of representative democracy as the authors have known it for the past century or so is being seriously challenged as the competition between different governance models runs rife. Overall, the authors have seen over recent years a flourishing of methods that seek to nurture the key factors of CI in service to public decision-making.
