Poststructural Policy Analysis: A Guide to Practice

by Susan Goodwin and Carol Bacchi

Book Overview

This book offers a novel, refreshing and politically engaged way to think about public policy. Instead of treating policy as simply the government's best efforts to address problems, it offers a way to question critically how policies produce "problems" as particular sorts of problems, with important political implications. Governing, it is argued, takes place through these problematizations. According to the authors, interrogating policies and policy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137525444
• ISBN13: 9781137525444
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"