Interpreting Governance, High Politics, and Public Policy

Essays commemorating Interpreting British Governance

Nick Turnbull

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781138777286
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317679363
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: American Government
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Interpreting Governance, High Politics, and Public Policy

offers the latest perspectives on the interpretive approach to governance and public policy research.

This book commemorates more than a decade of governance research by Mark Bevir and R.A.W. Rhodes, the leading exponents of interpretive political science in the United Kingdom. It explains how insights from the interpretive perspective may be used to advance the study of governance, high politics, and public policy. Featuring contributions from major scholars in the field, both inside and outside the interpretivist fold, the authors critically reflect upon interpretivism and consider how aspects of the interpretive approach apply to their own research. The authors debate the significance of Bevir and Rhodes's work and develop future directions for interpretive governance research. The chapters link one of the most innovative contemporary perspectives in political science with the latest empirical studies.

Contributing towards setting the governance research agenda, Interpreting Governance, High Politics and Public Policy is an excellent resource for the study of interpretive policy analysis.

Index

Page numbers in italics denote tables, those in bold denote figures.

Academies Act (2010) 33

Academy schools 33

accommodation and resistance 140, 142, 144, 145

accountability 27, 30–31; ministerial 26, 196–197

Actor–Network Theory 147n4

Adcock, R. 98

advisers, political 26, 27, 29, 30

agency, situated 80, 82, 87–90, 97, 112, 197, 201; in public policy research 181–183, 182

anti-essentialism 97

anti-foundationalism 2, 5, 7, 40, 41, 126, 134–135, 137

anti-naturalism 81

anti-representationalism 135

archival research 13, 85, 154, 202–203, 206n4

Aristotle 67

asymmetric power model 5

Austin, J. L. 100

Australia 173

Auyero, J. 205

Baldwin, Stanley 83–84

Bang, H. P. 48–49, 51, 147n6

Battersea Labour Party 121–122

Bavin, A. R. W. 158, 159, 168

Beer, S. 119

behaviouralism 80–81, 173

behaviourism 102, 103

Behram, Noor 50

Bell, S. 5, 45

Benjamin, Richard 157, 158, 159, 160–161, 166, 167

Bennister, M. 90

Bevir, Mark 1, 2–10, 19, 20–22, 25, 33–34, 39–44, 46–48, 52, 81, 86–87, 90, 97–98, 99, 111–112, 119–120, 121, 122–123, 126–127, 133–138, 141, 142, 145–147, 151, 152–155, 166–167, 172, 176, 183

Big Society 28–29, 33

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction: Interpreting Governance, High Politics, and Public Policy
• Part I Governance and Metagovernance
• Part II High Politics and Political History
• Part III Policymaking
• Conclusion
• Index