The Politics of Policy Analysis

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This book focuses on two key ways to improve the literature surrounding policy analysis. Firstly, it explores the implications of new developments in policy process research, on the role of psychology in communication and the multi-centric nature of policymaking. This is particularly important since policy analysts engage with policymakers who operate in an environment over which they have limited understanding and even less control. Secondly, it incorporates insights from studies of power, co-production, feminism, and decolonisation, to redraw the boundaries of policy-relevant knowledge. These insights help raise new questions and change expectations about the role and impact of policy analysis.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030661212
ISBN-10: 3030661210
Pagini: 171
Ilustrații: XV, 171 p. 3 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2021
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Part I State of the Art Policy Analysis Texts.- 1 Introduction: New Policy Analysis for the Real World.- 2 What Is the Classic Five-Step Model of How to Do Policy Analysis?.- 3 What Has Changed, and Why Do We Need New Policy Analysis?.- 4 What Insights from Policy Process Research Do Policy Analysts Need to Know?.- 5 What Insights from Wider Studies of Power, Knowledge, Politics, and Policy Do Policy Analysts Need to Consider?.- 6 How Have How to Do Policy Analysis Texts Incorporated These Insights So Far?.- Part II Challenging Themes in Policy Analysis.- 7 Comparing What You Need as a Policy Analyst with Policymaking Reality.- 8 Who Should Be Involved in the Process of Policy Analysis?.- 9 What Is Your Role as a Policy Analyst?.- 10 How to Be a Policy Entrepreneur.- 11 Policy Analysis as Systems Thinking.- 12 How Much Impact Can You Expect from Your Analysis?.- 13 Conclusion: Combining Insights on Policy Analysis.

Notă biografică

Paul Cairney is Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling, UK. His research interests are in comparative public policy, policy analysis, and policy theories, applied to countries including the UK and themes such as the use of evidence in policymaking.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

This book generates state-of-the-art advice on how to do policy analysis. It combines a review of policy analysis texts, new developments in psychology and policymaking, and more critical studies of the politics of evidence use. It helps readers reflect on the practices appropriate to a new policy analysis profession. Most ‘art and craft’ advice on policy analysis already states that it is a political act, not simply a technical and ‘evidence based’ process. This book goes two steps further. First, it highlights the politics of evidence production and ethical ways to combine many forms of policy-relevant knowledge. Second, it describes the supply of analysis to policymakers who must ignore almost all information, and operate in a policymaking environment over which they have limited knowledge and minimal control. It shows that policy analysis will be of limited value unless analysts incorporate these factors into their advice.
Paul Cairney isProfessor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling, UK.

Caracteristici

Provides state-of-the-art advice on how to do policy analysis Improves descriptive policy analysis insights by drawing on new developments in psychology and policy process theories Improves prescriptive policy analysis by drawing on the politics of evidence production and use

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