Poststructural Policy Analysis

A Guide to Practice

Carol Bacchi, Susan Goodwin (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

149 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Pivot (Verlag)
9781349958559 (ISBN)

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This book offers a novel, refreshing and politically engaged way to think about public policy. Instead of treating policy as simply the government’s best efforts to address problems, it offers a way to question critically how policies produce “problems” as particular sorts of problems, with important political implications. Governing, it is argued, takes place through these problematizations. According to the authors, interrogating policies and policy proposals as problematizations involves asking questions about the assumptions they rely upon, how they have been made, what their effects are, as well as how they could be unmade. To enable this form of critical analysis, this book introduces an analytic strategy, the “What’s the Problem Represented to be?” (WPR) approach. It features examples of applications of the approach with topics as diverse as obesity, economic policy, migration, drug and alcohol policy, and gender equality to illustrate the growing popularity of this way of thinking and to provide clear and useful examples of poststructural policy analysis in practice.

Carol Bacchi is Professor Emerita of Politics at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her work over the past forty years has encouraged rethinking of taken-for-granted truths about women’s history, equality policy and public policy generally. Major publications include: Same Difference: Feminism and Sexual Difference (1990), Women, Policy and Politics: The Construction of Policy Problems (1999) and Analysing Policy: What’s the Problem Represented to Be? (2009). Susan Goodwin is Associate Professor of Policy Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on social policy and gender, and she contributes to policy processes at local, national and international levels. Recent publications include Markets, Rights and Power in Australian Social Policy (2015), Schools, Communities and Social Inclusion (2011) and Social Policy for Social Change (2010).

Part I Asking new policy questions1Introduction22Making politics visible: The WPR approach153Key themes and concepts33Power, knowledge and resistance34Practices, events and relations 39Discourses and discursive practices43Problematizing, problematizations, self-problematization47Governmentality: rationalities and technologies52Genealogy and subjugated knowledges58Subjectification, subject positions and dividing practices63Part IIInterrogating policies as constitutive: WPR applications4Making and unmaking “problems”71Understandings of “problems” in policy analysis72Alcohol and other drug “problems”77“Gender equality”805Making and unmaking “subjects”87Education policy90Health policy92Immigration policy94Economic policy96Transport/environment policy98Disability/equality policy99Family policy<1016Making and unmaking “objects”104“traffic”/“cycling”107“poverty”/“social inclusion”109“addiction”111“literacy”114States of being: “wellbeing”, “disability”, “developing/developed”1167Making and unmaking “places”120Making (up) “the state” 123Making (up) “Europe”124Making (up) “urban”/“rural” “places”127Making (up) “developed” and “developing” “places”130Making (up) “public places”1328Conclusion135Appendix: Poststructural Interview Analysis: Politicizing “personhood” by Carol Bacchi and Jennifer Bonham143Bibliography155Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 149 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	218 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Schlagworte	discourse • Foucault • Governmentality • Policy • Politics • poststructuralism • problematization
ISBN-13	9781349958559 / 9781349958559
Zustand	Neuware