Analysing Policy: What's the problem represented to be? - Couverture souple

Bacchi, Carol

 
9780733985751: Analysing Policy: What's the problem represented to be?
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0733985750 ISBN 13 : 9780733985751
Editeur : Pearson Education Limited, 2009

Synopsis

A novel approach to thinking about public policy and a distinctive methodology for analysing policy

It introduces a set of six questions that probe how 'problems' are represented in policies, followed by an injunction to apply the questions to one's own policy proposals. This form of analysis, it suggests, is crucial to understanding how policy works, how we are governed, and how the practice of policy-making implicitly constitutes us as subjects.

The book mounts a challenge to the problem-solving paradigm currently dominating the intellectual and policy landscape, a paradigm manifest in 'evidence-based policy'. Arguing that such a paradigm denies the shaping that goes on in the process of problematisation, it offers a 'what's the problem represented to be?' approach to policy analysis as a counter-discourse. In this view critical thinking involves putting 'problems' into question rather than learning how to 'solve' them.

Bacchi's approach to policy analysis offers exciting insights in a wide array of policy areas, including welfare, drugs/alcohol and gambling, criminal justice, health, education, immigration and population, media and research policy. Invaluable to those involved in policy studies and public administration, it will also appeal to students and academics in sociology, social work, anthropology, cultural studies and human geography.

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À propos de l?auteur

Carol Bacchi is Professor in Politics at the University of Adelaide. Her publications include Same Difference: Feminism and Sexual Difference, The Politics of Affirmative Action: 'Women', Equality and Category Politics, and Women, Policy and Politics: The Construction of Policy Problems.

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Éditeur
Pearson Education Limited
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0733985750
ISBN 13 
9780733985751
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
319
Coordonnées du fabricant
Pearson Benelux BV
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