Fast Policy - Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism (Paperback)

We inhabit a perpetually accelerating and increasingly interconnected world, with new ideas, fads, and fashions moving at social-media speed. New policy ideas, especially "ideas that work," are now able to find not only a worldwide audience but also transnational salience in remarkably short order. Fast Policy is the first systematic treatment of this phenomenon, one that compares processes of policy development across two rapidly moving fields that emerged in the Global South and have quickly been adopted worldwide conditional cash transfers (a social policy program that conditions payments on behavioral compliance) and participatory budgeting (a form of citizen-centric urban governance). Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore critically analyze the growing transnational connectivity between policymaking arenas and modes of policy development, assessing the implications of these developments for contemporary policymaking. Emphasizing that policy models do not simply travel intact from sites of invention to sites of emulation, they problematize fast policy as a phenomenon that is real and consequential yet prone to misrepresentation. Based on fieldwork conducted across six continents and in fifteen countries, Fast Policy is an essential resource in providing an extended theoretical discussion of policy mobility and in presenting a methodology for ethnographic research on global social policy.

General

Imprint:	University of Minnesota Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Jamie Peck • Nik Theodore
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	328
ISBN-13:	978-0-8166-7731-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
LSN:	0-8166-7731-X
Barcode:	9780816677313

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