Handbook on policy, process and governing / edited by H.K. Colebatch (School of Social Science, University of New South Wales, Australia), and Robert Hoppe (Emeritus Professor of Policy and Knowledge, Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences, Department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies, University of Twente, the Netherlands).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Colebatch, H. K. (Hal K.), editor.

Hoppe, Robert A., editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political planning.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (528 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., Incorporated, 2018.

Summary:

This Handbook covers the accounts, by practitioners and observers, of the ways in which policy is formed around problems, how these problems are recognized and understood, and how diverse participants come to be involved in addressing them. H.K. Colebatch and Robert Hoppe draw together a range of original contributions from experts in the field to illuminate the ways in which policies are formed and how they shape the process of governing. The Handbook on Policy, Process and Governing covers not only the activities of government, but also the contributions of other stakeholders, and the ways in which a wide range of participants contribute to the formation of public policy. It explores the tensions involved in the policy process between: innovative choice and stable practice, authoritative decision and negotiated order, and agreed activity and announced goals. The scholar's focus on the analysis of activity and the practitioner's interest in the achievement of outcomes are brought together in this timely book, making it a valuable read for public policy scholars and practitioners alike.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Introduction: policy, process and making sense of governing / H.K. Colebatch and Robert Hoppe

Part I: Tracing the signature of policy

2. 'Whatever governments decide to do or not to do' / Ed Page

3. Policy as ordering through documents / Michal Sedlacko

4. Policy as (mere) problem-solving / Nick Turnbull

5. Policy as practice / Koen Bartels

6. Policy as a body of expertise / Holger Strassheim

Part II: Policy as authoritative choice

7 'Stage' theories of the policy process / William Dunn

8. Design as a window on the policy process / Hal Colebatch

9. Thirty years of research on policy instruments / Michael Howlett, Ishani Mukherjee and J.J. Woo

10. Implementation / Peter Hupe

11. Evidence and evaluation / Jan-Eric Furubo

Part III: Policy as structured interaction

12. Linkage and the policy process / Hal Colebatch

13. The advocacy coalition framework / Keith Dowding

14. Multiple streams / Alison Ritter and Kari Lancaster

15. Policy work and its significance for public policy / Jan Kohoutek, Martin Nekola and Arnost Vesele.

Part IV: Policy as sense-making

16. Frames and framings in policy-making / Perri 6

17. Agenda formation and change / Peter John

18. Narrative in the policy process / Raul Lejano, Mrill Ingram and Helen Ingram

19. Policy learning and diffusion / David Dolowitz

20. The news media and the policy process / Rod Tiffen

21. The role of social media in the policy process / Victor Bekkers and Arthur Edwards

22. Problematisation / David Dery

Part V: The limits of policy

23. Choice volume incrementalism / Robert Hoppe

24. Stasis and change / John Grin

25. Policy and socio-economic characteristics / William Blomquist

26. From policy typologies to policy feedback / Aynsley Kellow

What do we learn from this?

27. Policy and the theorising of governing / Robert Hoppe and H.K. Colebatch

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781784714871 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.