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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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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Berglund, Oscar.
Contributor:
A. Dunlop, Claire.
M. Weible, Christopher.
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 &amp
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.
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ISBN:
1-4473-6901-7
1-4473-6900-9
OCLC:
1503733338

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