Defining Policy Analysis: A Journey that Never Ends
Theory and Practice
$56.88
- Paperback
70 pages
- Release Date
28 January 2021
Summary
For much of its life, the field of policy analysis has lived with a wide range of definitions of its goals, work, and significance in society. This Element seeks to sort out these differences by describing the issues, players, and developments that have played a role over the life of this field. As a result of the relationships that have developed, an environment has emerged where both academics and practitioners who self-identify as ‘policy analysts’ are not always recognized as such by othe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781108927802 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1108927807 |
| Author: | Beryl A. Radin |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 70 |
| Release Date: | 28 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 120g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 151mm x 5mm |
| Series: | Elements in Public Policy |
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Critics Review
‘What is a policy scholar for, what is the mission of schools of governance (and, [Diane Lesley] Stone would add, transnational governance) - bluntly, what are we doing in the world? Radin has a brilliant approach to capture this issue, right from the telling runner title: A Journey that Never Ends. Her volume is also yet another opportunity to appreciate the subtlety of Wildavsky’s insights - Radin reflects on some truly memorable quotes and the defining, often enigmatic, moments of Wildavsky’s intellectual progression. And there is more: at the end of the book, we find a questionnaire about what it means to be a policy analyst - hence, we can complete and find our own answer. This volume explains cogently and with a warm, passionate, heart-felt style, how policy analysts must learn to cope and possibly enjoy the tension between embracing the values of science, as well as embracing pragmatic values of utility.’ Claudio M. Radaelli, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice
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