Informality in Policymaking | Weaving the Threads of Everyday Policy Work

E. Lianne Visser (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 1837972834 / ISBN 13: 9781837972838

Published by Emerald Publishing Limited, 2026

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Informality in Policymaking | Weaving the Threads of Everyday Policy Work | E. Lianne Visser (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2026 | Emerald Publishing Limited | EAN 9781837972838 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Informality in Policymaking | Weaving the Threads of Everyday Policy Work
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1837972834
• ISBN 13: 9781837972838
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 228W x 151H x 17D millimeters 228 millimeters width by 151 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 332 grams
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Synopsis

This book contains an Open Access chapter.

Public policy actors spend considerable time writing policy, advising politicians, eliciting stakeholder views on policy concerns, and implementing initiatives. Yet, they also ‘hang out’ chatting at coffee machines, discuss developments in the hallway walking from one meeting to another, or wander outside to carparks for a quick word and to avoid prying eyes. Rather than interrogating the rules and procedures which govern how policies are made, this volume asks readers to begin with the informal as a concept and extend this to what people do, how they relate to each other, and how this matters.

Emerging from a desire to enquire into the lived experience of policy professionals, and to conceptualise afresh the informal in the making of public policy, Informality in Policymaking explores how informality manifests in different contexts, spaces, places, and policy arenas, and the implications of this. Including nine empirical chapters, this volume presents studies from around the world and across policy domains spanning the rural and urban, and the local to the supranational. The chapters employ interdisciplinary approaches and integrate creative elements, such as drawings of hand gestures and fieldwork photographs, in conjunction with ethnographic ‘thick descriptions’.

In unveiling the realities of how policy is made, this deeply meaningful and thoughtfully constructed collection argues that the formal is only part of the story of policymaking, and thus only part of the solutions it seeks to create. Informality in Policymaking will be of interest to researchers and policymakers alike.

About the Author

Lindsey Garner-Knapp is Doctoral Candidate at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Joanna Mason is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney, Australia.

Tamara Mulherin is Lecturer in Organisational Studies with the Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK.

E. Lianne Visser is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University, the Netherlands.