Making Policy in Theory and Practice

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ISBN: 9781861349040 | 1861349041
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Copyright: 10/10/2007

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Social policy review provides students, academics and all those interested in welfare issues with critical analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year. This year the review takes the opportunity of the 60th anniversary of the key legislation founding the welfare state in the UK to provide a comprehensive overview of policy developments in UK and internationally.

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Notes on contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Analysing the policy process	p. 1
Modernising policy making	p. 4
International context	p. 15
Why these nine principles?	p. 17
Forward-looking policy making	p. 21
Development of futures work	p. 24
Modern policy making: forward looking?	p. 29
Taking a forward look at forward-looking policy making	p. 38
Conclusions	p. 43
Outward-looking policy making	p. 47
Constraints on lesson drawing	p. 50
Cross-national policy learning under pressure	p. 56
Conclusions	p. 60
Innovative, flexible and creative policy making	p. 65
Background to change	p. 66
Modern context of policy making	p. 70
Strategic development of policy	p. 75
Conclusions	p. 83
Evidence-based policy making	p. 87
Evidence-based modern policy making	p. 90
Evidence-based policy: a governmental view	p. 91
Government initiatives to support the use of evidence	p. 93
A pluralistic notion of evidence?	p. 96
Obstacles to the implementation of evidence-based policy	p. 98
Conclusions	p. 102
Inclusive policy making	p. 105
'Inclusion' from the 1980s	p. 108
Inclusive policy making: participation, consultation and impact assessment	p. 111
Conclusions	p. 121
Joined-up policy making	p. 125
Policy trend	p. 130
Joining up since 1997	p. 131
What defines the joined-up agenda?	p. 135
Institutional innovations in England	p. 137
Joining up under devolution	p. 141
A wider perspective: 'whole of government' approaches	p. 143
Conclusions	p. 147
Policy review	p. 147
Review and the policy process	p. 150
A review of reviews	p. 151
Reviewing New Labour	p. 157
Current state of review	p. 161
Conclusions	p. 165
Policy evaluation	p. 169
Rationale and goals for evaluation	p. 171
Types of evaluation	p. 174
Programme evaluation	p. 174
Monitoring and retrospective evaluation	p. 177
Prospective and meta-evaluation	p. 179
Formative evaluation	p. 180
Managing policy evaluation	p. 181
Policy design	p. 182
Evaluation design	p. 182
Delivering evaluation	p. 184
Impact of evaluations	p. 184
Ethics of policy evaluation	p. 186
Conclusions	p. 187
Learns lessons from policy experience	p. 191
Learning as feedback: the simple systems approach	p. 193
Learning or lessons?	p. 198
Learning in a complex adaptive system	p. 202
Towards open systems?	p. 207
Conclusions	p. 210
Conclusions	p. 213
Bibliography	p. 215
Index	p. 241
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