Taking Risks and Breaking New Frontiers in Policy and Politics

by Oscar Berglund (Editor), Claire A. Dunlop (Editor), Christopher M Weible (Editor)

Overview

How do we conceive of policy and political studies? To what extent should our science be ‘normative’ or ‘objective’ or ‘positive’? Who are our audiences and how do we engage them? Whose knowledge matters and how does it accumulate? How should we advance the study of policy and politics?

First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this book makes a statement about the study of policy and politics: what it is, how it is done, where it has been and where it is going. It comprises scholarship that has rarely been combined to explore several fundamental challenges about research in policy and politics. It concludes by challenging the field to consider different ways of thinking about what we can discover and construct in the world and how we can conduct our science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447368991
Publisher:	Policy Press
Publication date:	03/01/2025
Series:	New Perspectives in Policy and Politics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224

About the Author

Oscar Berglund is Senior Lecturer in International Public and Social Policy in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol.

Claire A. Dunlop is Professor of Politics and Public Policy in the Politics Department at the University of Exeter.

Christopher M. Weible is Professor at the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs, CO, USA.

Table of Contents

1. Policy & Politics: A Perspective on the First Half Century – Alex Marsh and Randall Smith

2. Taking Risks and Breaking New Frontiers: Introduction to the Special Issue and the Cardinal Challenges for Policy and Politics Scholarship – Oscar Berglund, Claire A. Dunlop and Christopher M. Weibel

3. How Diverse and Inclusive Are Policy Process Theories? – Tanya Heikkila and Michael D. Jones

4. Making Interpretive Policy Analysis Critical and Societally Relevant: Emotions, Ethnography and Language – Anna Durnová

5. Global Public Policy Studies – Osmany Porto de Oliveira

6. The Implications of COVID-19 for Concepts and Practices of Citizenship – M. Jae Moon and B. Shine Cho

7. Challenging Boundaries to Expand Frontiers in Gender and Policy Studies – Emanuela Lombardo and Petra Meier

8. Conceptualising Policy Design in the Policy Process – Saba Siddiki and Cali Curley