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Taking Risks and Breaking New Frontiers in Policy and Politics.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berglund, Oscar.
- Series:
- New Perspectives in Policy and Politics Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this book makes a statement about the study of policy and politics: what it is, how it is done, where it has been and where it is going. It comprises scholarship that has rarely been combined to explore several fundamental challenges about research in policy and politics.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Taking Risks and Breaking New Frontiers in Policy and Politics
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgement
- 1 Introduction: Taking risks and breaking new frontiers - the cardinal challenges for policy and politics scholarship Oscar Berglund, Claire A. Dunlop and Christopher M. Weible
- Our motivation: from metacommunities to new frontiers
- Rendering meaning and significance
- Posing five cardinal challenges for studying policy and politics
- How do we conceive of policy and political studies?
- To what extent should our science be 'normative' or 'objective or 'positive'?
- Who is our audience, and how do we engage them?
- Whose knowledge matters, and how does it accumulate?
- How should we advance the study of policy and politics?
- Concluding remarks
- References
- 2 Policy &
- Politics: a perspective on the first half century Alex Marsh and Randall Smith
- Introduction
- Beginnings
- Engaging with the policy process
- Looking outwards
- Broadening horizons
- Institutional changes
- The editorial team
- The intellectual journey
- Fifty, not out
- 3 How diverse and inclusive are policy process theories? Tanya Heikkila and Michael D. Jones
- Background
- Policy process approaches' rules of inclusion
- Assessing diversity in policy process approaches
- Diversity in research methods
- Concept diversity
- Diversity in topics and context
- Diversity of authors
- What is missing?
- Normative and positive approaches
- Practical translations
- Discussion and conclusion
- The who, what, and how of diversity and inclusion in policy process approaches
- The challenges of more diversity and inclusion
- Recommendations
- Notes
- References.
- 4 Making interpretive policy analysis critical and societally relevant: emotions, ethnography and language Anna Durnová
- Overview of the main achievement of interpretive approaches
- Emotions as a challenge and opportunity to address the meaning of policies
- Ethnography as a lens to analyse politics through marginalised voices
- Fathers' emotions: the role of marginalised voices in understanding policy debates
- Conclusion
- Funding
- 5 Global public policy studies Osmany Porto de Oliveira
- Global public policies: what are we talking about?
- Agents and agendas of global public policymaking
- Challenges and opportunities for research in Global Public Policy studies
- Development and geopolitics of global public policymaking
- Neo-.populist (far-.right) movements, nationalism and global scepticism
- Global public policies during the COVID-.19 pandemic
- 6 The implications of COVID-19 for concepts and practices of citizenship M. Jae Moon and B. Shine Cho
- Understanding the dimensions of evolving citizenship
- Long-.term trend of citizenship and citizen participation research
- Citizens and modes of citizen participation in recent works
- Revisiting citizenship in the pandemic: models of democracy and coproduction
- Conclusions: future of citizens and citizenship in wicked policy problems
- 7 Challenging boundaries to expand frontiers in gender and policy studies Emanuela Lombardo and Petra Meier
- Lessons from gender and policy studies
- Gender and policy cycle and approaches
- Challenges and opportunities in terms of inclusivity, diversity and relevance
- Key needs and strategies for advancing gender and policy studies
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes
- 8 Conceptualising policy design in the policy process Saba Siddiki and Cali Curley
- Conceptualising policy design
- Policy designing
- Policy design as policy content
- Observations of the field: taking stock and looking ahead
- Observation 1: operationalisation of outputs of policy designing can be improved by drawing on approaches for classifying policy content
- Observation 2: research that treats policy design as policy content should focus more on outcomes
- Observation 3: research that contextualizes policy design in the policy process can support theory building
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4473-6901-7
- 1-4473-6900-9
- OCLC:
- 1503733338
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