Making Social Policy: The Mechanisms of Government and Politics, and How to Investigate Them - Softcover

Levin, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335190847 ISBN 13: 9780335190843

Verlag: Open University Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Making Social Policy is a new and original textbook on policy making in British central government. Starting from first principles, it examines policy making through concepts drawn not from academic theories and interpretations but directly from the experiences and perceptions of the politicians, officials and others involved in the decision-making process. Peter Levin sets out a range of techniques for doing this, and applies them to five case studies of policy making by the Thatcher and Major governments. He elegantly brings out the various mechanisms at work, including the strategies deployed by the various participants.
Making Social Policy is also about how to study policy making. It shows you how to recognize a policy when you see one, and how to make your own analysis of the mechanisms by which government produces and adopts policy proposals, and by which legislative and other measures subsequently come about. Peter Levin also demonstrates how many theoretical perspectives employed by academic writers comprehensively fail to capture the reality of what actually takes place.
Making Social Policy is essential reading for students of social policy, politics, government, and public administration.

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Peter Levin lectured in social policy and administration from 1970-96 at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Open University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0335190847
• ISBN 13: 9780335190843
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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