Open AccessLessons from an internship at Waipā: District Council motivations and incentives
Author(s) -
Alice Denne
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
policy quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2324-1101
pISSN - 2324-1098
DOI - 10.26686/pq.v13i4.4607
Subject(s) - internship , incentive , psychological intervention , public relations , public policy , political science , public administration , sociology , nursing , medicine , economics , law , microeconomics
Creating change through policy interventions relies most often on changing individuals’ behaviour. To create effective change, it is important for policymakers to understand the attitudes and motivations of the people most affected. I learned how important this is while spending my summer interning at the Waipä District Council in Waikato as part of Victoria University’s Master of Public Policy graduate pathway programme.