The Politics of Policy Analysis

ISBN-13: 9783030661212 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 171 str.

Paul Cairney

Spis treści

Part I State of the Art Policy Analysis Texts

1 Introduction: New Policy Analysis for the Real World

2 What Is the Classic Five-Step Model of How to Do Policy Analysis?

3 What Has Changed, and Why Do We Need New Policy Analysis?

4 What Insights from Policy Process Research Do Policy Analysts Need to Know?

5 What Insights from Wider Studies of Power, Knowledge, Politics, and Policy Do Policy Analysts Need to Consider?

6 How Have How to Do Policy Analysis Texts Incorporated These Insights So Far?

Part II Challenging Themes in Policy Analysis

7 Comparing What You Need as a Policy Analyst with Policymaking Reality

8 Who Should Be Involved in the Process of Policy Analysis?

9 What Is Your Role as a Policy Analyst?

10 How to Be a Policy Entrepreneur

11 Policy Analysis as Systems Thinking

12 How Much Impact Can You Expect from Your Analysis?

13 Conclusion: Combining Insights on Policy Analysis

O autorze

Paul Cairney is Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling, UK. His research interests are in comparative public policy, policy analysis, and policy theories, applied to countries including the UK and themes such as the use of evidence in policymaking. 

Blurb

This book generates state-of-the-art advice on how to do policy analysis. It combines a review of policy analysis texts, new developments in psychology and policymaking, and more critical studies of the politics of evidence use. It helps readers reflect on the practices appropriate to a new policy analysis profession. Most ‘art and craft’ advice on policy analysis already states that it is a political act, not simply a technical and ‘evidence based’ process. This book goes two steps further. First, it highlights the politics of evidence production and ethical ways to combine many forms of policy-relevant knowledge. Second, it describes the supply of analysis to policymakers who must ignore almost all information, and operate in a policymaking environment over which they have limited knowledge and minimal control. It shows that policy analysis will be of limited value unless analysts incorporate these factors into their advice.  

 Paul Cairney is Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling, UK.