Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy – serie
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17 produkter
Beyond Evidence Based Policy in Public Health
The Interplay of Ideas
Av K. Smith
Inbunden, 2013
1205 kr
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This book explores the complex relationship between public health research and policy, employing tobacco control and health inequalities in the UK as contrasting case studies. It argues that focusing on research-informed ideas usefully draws attention to the centrality of values, politics and …
Publics and Their Health Systems
Rethinking Participation
Inbunden, 2016
961 kr
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Drawing on a detailed case study of Scotland's National Health Service, this book argues that debates about citizen participation in health systems are disproportionately dominated by techniques of invited participation. A 'system's-eye' perspective, while often well-intentioned, has blinded us to …
Knowing Governance
The Epistemic Construction of Political Order
Av Jan-Peter Voß, Richard Freeman
Inbunden, 2015
1096 kr
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Knowing Governance sets out to understand governance through the design and making of its models and instruments. What kinds of knowledge do they require and reproduce? How are new understandings of governance produced in practice, by scientists and policy makers and by the publics with whom they …
Evaluation and Governing in the 21st Century
Disciplinary Measures, Transformative Possibilities
Inbunden, 2017
606 kr
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This book interrogates the role played by evaluation in 21st century governing. Using youth work in the UK as a case study, it challenges the narrative of evidence-based policy-making, arguing instead that evaluation research is used to discipline and control. At the same time, drawing on the work …
Producing Health Policy
Knowledge and Knowing in Government Policy Work
Av Jo Maybin
Inbunden, 2016
904 kr
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In this book Jo Maybin draws on rare access to the inner-workings of England's Department of Health to explore what kinds of knowledge civil servants use when developing policy, how they use it and why. Combining ethnographic data with insights from psychology, socio-linguistics, sociology and …
British Think Tanks After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis
Inbunden, 2019
931 kr
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This book examines the intellectual and institutional transformations of four British think tanks in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. In the context of a crisis of expert authority, González Hernando demonstrates how these organisations modified their mode of public engagement to …
British Think Tanks After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis
Häftad, 2020
931 kr
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This book examines the intellectual and institutional transformations of four British think tanks in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. In the context of a crisis of expert authority, González Hernando demonstrates how these organisations modified their mode of public engagement to …
Sex-Work, Prostitution and Policy
A Feminist Discourse Analysis
Inbunden, 2021
1423 kr
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The topic of sex-work/prostitution has long generated contentious debate, particularly within the broad church of feminism. This antagonism is reflected in UK policy debates, which are further complicated by their enactment in spaces of neoliberal hegemony. This book analyses the plurality of …
Sex-Work, Prostitution and Policy
A Feminist Discourse Analysis
Häftad, 2022
1423 kr
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The topic of sex-work/prostitution has long generated contentious debate, particularly within the broad church of feminism. This antagonism is reflected in UK policy debates, which are further complicated by their enactment in spaces of neoliberal hegemony. This book analyses the plurality of …
Politics of Health Promotion
In the European Union
Inbunden, 2022
1129 kr
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Much has been written about policy efforts to achieve ‘Health in All Policies’: an ambitious attempt to improve population health and reduce health inequalities by ensuring multiple policy areas are more attuned to their health impacts. However, most accounts focus on technical challenges, such as …
Politics of Health Promotion
In the European Union
Häftad, 2023
1129 kr
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Much has been written about policy efforts to achieve ‘Health in All Policies’: an ambitious attempt to improve population health and reduce health inequalities by ensuring multiple policy areas are more attuned to their health impacts. However, most accounts focus on technical challenges, such as …
New Production of Expert Knowledge
Education, Quantification and Utopia
Av Sotiria Grek
Inbunden, 2023
552 kr
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This Open Access book offers a novel perspective on the role of quantification in the making of education utopias through an analysis of expert knowledge and its producers. Drawing on empirical findings from the European Research Council funded project ‘International Organisations and the Rise of a …
New Production of Expert Knowledge
Education, Quantification and Utopia
Av Sotiria Grek
Häftad, 2023
430 kr
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This Open Access book offers a novel perspective on the role of quantification in the making of education utopias through an analysis of expert knowledge and its producers. Drawing on empirical findings from the European Research Council funded project ‘International Organisations and the Rise of a …
Laboratories of Social Knowledge
How International Organizations Construct Social Policy Through Numbers
Av John Berten
Inbunden, 2025
1423 kr
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The book examines the politics of knowledge in global social policy, investigating how international organisations (IOs) have contributed to the emergence and development of social security as a global policy field. It reconstructs the role of numerical knowledge in the International Labour …
Laboratories of Social Knowledge
How International Organizations Construct Social Policy Through Numbers
Av John Berten
Häftad, 2026
1423 kr
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The book examines the politics of knowledge in global social policy, investigating how international organisations (IOs) have contributed to the emergence and development of social security as a global policy field. It reconstructs the role of numerical knowledge in the International Labour …
Role of Metrics in Constructing the EU Anti-Poverty Policy
Inbunden, 2026
1423 kr
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This book sheds light on metrics as a key element of power relations in the EU anti-poverty policy, not least because the calculative infrastructure underlying them actively shapes the distribution of power. These metric-based power dynamics are linked to the fundamental lines of division in the …
Discussing the News
The Uneasy Alliance of Participatory Journalists and the Critical Public
Av Simon Smith
Inbunden, 2017
606 kr
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This book examines two new roles that journalists assume in a participatory media environment – the administration (moderation) of online discussion and the monitoring of and engagement in comments below their articles. The author argues that it is precisely because both roles are treated as …
