Rethinking Policy and Politics : : Reflections on Contemporary Debates in Policy Studies / / ed. by Sarah Ayres.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2014
• MitwirkendeR: Ayres, Sarah,; Cointre, Sara Le,; Davies, Jonathan Stephen,; Fenger, Menno,; Flinders, Matthew,; Guarneros-Meza, Valeria,; John, Peter,; Lowndes, Vivien,; Marsh, Alex,; Martin, Steve,; McCaughie, Kerry,; Newman, Janet,; Peters, B. Guy,; Pollitt, Christopher,; Rhodes, R.A.W,; van Twist, Mark,; van der Steen, Martijn,
• HerausgeberIn: Ayres, Sarah,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives in Policy and Politics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

In recent years the nature of policy and politics has witnessed significant transformations. These have challenged perceptions about the ways in which policy is studied, designed, delivered and appraised. This book –the first in the New Perspectives in Policy and Politics series - brings together world-leading scholars to reflect on the implications of some of these developments for the field of policy studies and the world of practice. First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, the book offers critical reflections on the recent history and future direction of policy studies. It advances the debate by rethinking the ways in which scholars and students of policy studies can (re)engage with pertinent issues in pursuit of both scholarly excellence and practical solutions to global policy problems.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Forty years of public management reform in UK central government: promises, promises … -- Political anthropology and civil service reform: prospects and limits -- Just do it differently? Everyday making, Marxism and the struggle against neoliberalism -- Performing new worlds? Policy, politics and creative labour in hard times -- Weathering the perfect storm? Austerity and institutional resilience in local government -- Complex causality in improving underperforming schools: a complex adaptive systems approach -- Toward policy coordination: alternatives to hierarchy -- Governing local partnerships: does external steering help local agencies address wicked problems? -- All tools are informational now: how information and persuasion define the tools of government -- The politics of engaged scholarship: impact, relevance and imagination -- Reflections on contemporary debates in policy studies -- Index