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Producing Health Policy - Knowledge and Knowing in Government Policy Work (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Producing Health Policy - Knowledge and Knowing in Government Policy Work (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy
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In this book Jo Maybin draws on rare access to the inner-workings
of England's Department of Health to explore what kinds of
knowledge civil servants use when developing policy, how they use
it and why. Combining ethnographic data with insights from
psychology, socio-linguistics, sociology and philosophy, she
demonstrates how civil servants engage in a wide range of knowledge
practices in the course of their daily work. These include sharing
personal anecdotes, thrashing-out ideas in meetings and creating
simplified representations of phenomena, as well as conducting
cost-benefit analyses and commissioning academic research. Maybin
analyzes the different functions that these various practices
serve, from developing personal understandings of issues, to making
complex social problems 'thinkable', and meeting the ever-present
need to make policies 'happen'. In doing so, she develops an
original theory of policy-making as the work of building
connections between a policy in development and powerful ideas,
people, and instruments, and reveals the 'policy know-how' required
by civil servants to be effective in their jobs.
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