Overview
- 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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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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Keywords
- policy analysis
- policy processes
- policymaking
- policy literature
- policy problems
- evidence based policy analysis
- policy studies
- Understanding Public Policy
- policy solutions
- policy analysts
- rational policymaking
- policy paradox
- evidence-based policymaking
- expertise
- policymaking environments
- policy narratives
- policy process research
- critical policy analysis
- politics of knowledge
- policy analysis ethics
Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Politics of Policy Analysis
Authors: Paul Cairney
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66122-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66121-2Published: 11 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66122-9Published: 10 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 171
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy