Policy

by H.K. Colebatch

This book investigates policy as a concept in use - an idea that both practitioners and outside observers use to make sense of public life, and to participate effectively in it. It is concerned to analyze the way that the policy process works rather than to describe particular sorts of policy, and it does this by addressing the core what do we mean by policy? who makes it? where is it made? what is it for? how does it relate to "politics" or "management"? what is it that policy workers do? The book will appeal to people interested in the place of policy in the way we are governed, as well as to those who are concerned with questions like the environment, regional development, or social policy, and want to understand how policy in these areas is actually made.

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Also known as: Hal K. Colebatch

Reviews

[Eleanor Henderson]

Dnf / put down for now in Feb 2024.

It’s just extremely dry and it’s not something I’m desperate to read or know at the moment