Overview
- Explains shifting patterns of policy and policy making by focusing on actors’ own interpretations of beliefs and practices
- Explores diverse ways in which situated agents change policies by remaking practices as their beliefs change
- Reveals the contingency and contestability of policy narratives
- Highlights both the importance of local knowledge and the diversity of policy making and its exercise
Part of the book series: Understanding Governance (TRG)
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This book presents ten case studies, covering penal policy, zero-carbon homes, parliamentary scrutiny, children’s rights, obesity, pension reform, public service reform,evidence-based policing, and local economic knowledge. It introduces a different angle of vision on the policy process; it looks at it through the eyes of individual actors, not institutions. In other words, it looks at policies from the other end of the telescope. It concludes there is much to learn from a decentred approach. It delivers edification because it offers a novel alliance of interpretive theory with an ethnographic toolkit to explore policy and policymaking from the bottom-up.
Written by members of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Southampton, with their collaborators at other universities, the book’s decentred approach provides an alternative to the dominant evidence–based policy nostrums of the day.
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Keywords
- Interpretive theory
- decentring
- ethnography
- bricolage
- policy analysis
- narratives
- penal policy
- criminal justice
- policymaking
- zero carbon homes (ZCH)
- ecological modernisation
- sustainable housing
- counterterrorism
- UK parliament
- children's rights
- European Commission
- Pension reform
- welfare state
- institutional memory
- police management
- British Politics
Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Narrative Policy Analysis
Book Subtitle: Cases in Decentred Policy
Editors: R.A.W Rhodes
Series Title: Understanding Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76635-5
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) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76634-8Published: 12 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09540-6Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76635-5Published: 24 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-4221
Series E-ISSN: 2947-423X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 273
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Governance and Government, Legislative and Executive Politics, Comparative Politics, British Politics, European Union Politics