The Governance of Problems: Puzzling, Powering and Participation

By Robert A. Hoppe

Contemporary democracies need to develop a better governance of problems, as all too often, policy is a sophisticated answer to the wrong problem. This book offers a compelling approach to public policy-making as problem processing, bringing together aspects of puzzling, powering and participation, relating them in interesting and different ways to cultural theory, to issues about networks, to models of democracy and modes of citizen participation. Part of a growing body of work in policy analysis literature, the book is clearly written and accessibly presented, making this an ideal text for academics and postgraduate students.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847426298
• ISBN13: 9781847426291
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"