Making Policy, Shaping Lives (Understanding Contemporary Politics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748619739 ISBN 13: 9780748619733

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This book explores a variety of perspectives on the making of public policy. Also exploring the impact upon groups and individuals on the 'making' and the 'receiving' ends. Its aim is to bring policy making alive to students and general readers. It deals with policy dynamics at national and other levels of governance. This book comprehensively explores the links between policy and battles over political values, responses to electoral preferences, challenging social and cultural issues, the assumptions of the powerful, and national and international economic and political pressures. It compares and contrasts policy-making across countries, using key case-studies. Different theories of policy-making are also explored, including the role of the public and private sectors in policy making, and recent attempts at restructuring modern welfare states.

About this title

About the Author:

Raia Prokhovnik is senior lecturer in politics at the Open University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0748619739
• ISBN 13: 9780748619733
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Prokhovnik Professor Raia