Policy Reconsidered
Zoe Irving · 2007
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About the book
The idea of 'policy' is ripe for critical reappraisal. Whilst the context for policy making changes constantly, multiple questions endure: How is policy conceived and why? What is taken for granted and what gets problematised? How should policy be informed, analysed and understood? This book identifies key topics within the policy arena and subjects them to sustained theoretical and practical appraisal. It explores the development of the meaning and language of policy, and examines its practice from the micro- to the supra-national levels, using illustrative case studies to demonstrate how policy is contested, shaped and accounted for. Given the significance of policy as a means to organise and direct social, economic and political life, this book presents the case for a critical restatement of its origins, development and form - without which we risk being trapped by received wisdom, and caught up in a cycle of change without understanding the 'why' or 'how'.
Book details
- Year
- 2007
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Policy Pr
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 250
- ISBN
- 9781861349125
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