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865194
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Narrative policy analysis : : cases in decentred policy /\ edited by R.A.W. Rhodes.
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| Publication Statement
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave MacMillan,, [2018]
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| Series Statement
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Understanding governance
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1 online resource
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331976635X
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: 9783319766355
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9783319766348
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Titles in the 'Understanding Governance' Series, 1997-2017; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; Editor and Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 What Is Decentred Analysis?; Introduction; Interpretive Theory; Decentring; Bricolage; The Chapters; Conclusions; References; Chapter 2 What is Penal Policy? Traditions and Practices in the UK Ministry of Justice; Introduction; A Note on Methods; Traditions; The Ministry of Justice Is Legal Liberalism; The Ministry of Justice Is Public Protection; The Ministry of Justice Is Rehabilitation
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Chapter 6 How Do You Go From Demonising Adversaries to Deliberating with Them?Introduction; Debating Obesity; Inflaming Conflict: Advocacy as a War; Orchestrating Conflict: Advocacy as a Game; Masking Conflict: Advocacy as a Club; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7 How Have Narratives, Beliefs and Practices Shaped Pension Reform in Sweden?; Decentring Pension Reform; Pension Reform in Sweden; The Struggle for Supplementary Pensions; Harvest Time, the Strong Society and Universal Social Protection; The 1959 ATP Reform; Decentring the ATP Reform; The Social Democratic Blueprint
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Ecological Modernisation ContestedThe Smart Housing Storyline; Ecological Modernist Approach; Ecological Modernisation Contested; Narratives in the Post-ZCH Policy Period; Discussion and Conclusions; References; Chapter 4 What Are the Hidden Dimensions to Parliamentary Scrutiny-The Ghosts in the Machine?; Introduction-Ghost in the Machine; Context Is Everything; 7/7-The Road to 90 Days; Post 7/7-The Ghosts Gather on the Path from 90 to 42 Days; 42 Days-It's Déjà vu All Over Again; Ghosts in the Machine; Theatrical Endeavours: Ghostbusting Tradition and Dilemma
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The Ministry of Justice Is New ManagerialismDilemmas; Judicial Representative or Government Minister?; Departmental Coherence or Autonomy of Parts?; Policy and Operations: Fusion or Separation?; Patient Implementation or Political Responsiveness?; Conclusion: The Ministry/s of Justice; References; Chapter 3 What Makes a Zero Carbon Home Zero Carbon?; Introduction; Methodology; Phase One; Phase Two; Background: The Early Development of ZCH; The 2006 ZCH Policy and Its Changes Over Time; Storylines in the Pre-ZCH Policy Period; The Life Cycle Storyline; The Ecologically Modern Approach
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Through a Glass Darkly-Chasing ConcessionsGhosts in the Machine-Revisited; Conclusions; References; Chapter 5 How Are Children's Rights (Mis)Interpreted in Practice? The European Commission, Children's Rights and Policy Narratives; Introduction; The EU and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; The CRC; EU Children's Rights Policy; Policy Narratives and Policy-Making; Interpretation and Implementation of Child Participation; Interpretation and Implementation of Best Interests of the Child; Conclusion; References
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This book examine polices through the eyes of the practitioners, both top-down and bottom-up; it decentres policies and policymaking. To decentre is to unpack practices as the contingent beliefs and actions of individuals. Decentred analysis produces detailed studies of people's beliefs and practices. It challenges the idea that inexorable or impersonal forces drive politics, focusing instead on the relevant meanings, the beliefs and preferences of the people involved. The book presents ten case studies, covering penal policy, zero-carbon homes, parliamentary scrutiny, children's rights, obesity, pension reform, public service reform, evidence-based policing, and local economic knowledge. It introduces a different angle of vision on the policy process; it looks at it through the eyes of individual actors, not institutions. In other words, it looks at policies from the other end of the telescope. It concludes there is much to learn from a decentred approach. It delivers edification because it offers a novel alliance of interpretive theory with an ethnographic toolkit to explore policy and policymaking from the bottom-up. Written by members of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Southampton, with their collaborators at other universities, the book's decentred approach provides an alternative to the dominant evidence-based policy nostrums of the day. R.A.W. Rhodes is Professor of Government at the University of Southampton, UK. Previously, he was the Director of the UK Economic and Social Research Council's 'Whitehall Programme' (1994-1999); Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University (2006-11); and Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (2007-8). In 2015, the ECPR awarded him its biennial Lifetime Achievement Award for his 'outstanding contribution to all areas of political science, and the exceptional impact of his work'.--
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Political planning.
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Political science-- Research.
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Political planning.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Reference.
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Political science-- Research.
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| Dewey Classification
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320.6
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JF1525.P6N37 2018eb
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| Added Entry
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Rhodes, R. A. W.
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