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Narrative Policy Analysis - Cases in Decentred Policy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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Narrative Policy Analysis - Cases in Decentred Policy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Understanding Governance
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Narratives or storytelling are a feature of the everyday life of
all who work in government. They tell each other stories about the
origins, aims and effects of policies to make sense of their world.
These stories form the collective memory of a government
department; a retelling of yesterday to make sense of today. This
book examines policies 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. This 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.
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