Activism and the Policy Process

ISBN-13: 9780367717377 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 280 str.

Anna Yeatman

Opis

An innovative approach to a rarely-examined aspect of politics and public policy.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Tables

Introduction - Anna Yeatman

1 Activism and the policy process - Anna Yeatman

2 Policy from the margins: reshaping the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Glyn Davis

3 Development of professional competencies - a case study in the complexities of corporatist policy implementation - Andrew Gonczi and Paul Hager

4 Children's services and policy activism - Deborah Brennan

5 The art of insider activism: policy activism and the governance of health - Paul Dugdale

6 Community activism in the health policy process: the case of the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia, 1987-96 - Stephanie Short

7 Discourse analysis and policy activism: readings and rewritings of Australian university research policy - Gar Jones, Alison Lee and Cate Poynton

8 Pink conspiracies: Australia's gay communities and national HIV/AIDS policies, 1983-96 - Gary Dowsett

9 Policy activism, community housing and urban renewal: Bowden-Brompton 1972-96 - Gael Fraser

10 Activists in the woodwork: policy activism and the housing reform movement in New South Wales - Julie Nyland

Notes

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Most of the contributors are seasoned policy activists as well as being either professional policy analysts or academics. The editor of this collection, ANNA YEATMAN, is a well-known contributor to contemporary political theory, among whose books are a seminal collection of essays on the interaction between social movements and the Australian state, Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats.