Policy work and its significance for public policy
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781784714871.00022" target="_blank" >10.4337/9781784714871.00022</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Policy work and its significance for public policy
Original language description
Policy work is a theme rarely tackled in edited scholarly volumes. Highlighting significance of policy work in public policy-making, this chapter reviews how policy processes can be understood as a pattern of specialised work. To this end, the chapter first delineates the main characteristics of policy work and proceeds to review the major conceptual approaches to it. The chapter then gives an overview of empirical literature on the work of policy, and concludes with some suggestions for future research on it. In essence, the chapter argues that policy work encompasses much broader and diverse sets of practice-related activities than commonly assumed and advocated in policy analysis. It is therefore timely to re-orient, both conceptually and empirically, scholarly thinking of what nature of work policy practitioners do in reality, to reach beyond the confines of governmental instrumentalism and science-led (purely rational) problem solving.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50602 - Public administration
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Handbook on Policy, Process and Governing
ISBN
978-1-78471-486-4
Number of pages of the result
19
Pages from-to
253-271
Number of pages of the book
528
Publisher name
Edward Elgar Publishing
Place of publication
Cheltenham
UT code for WoS chapter
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