Policy Making in Britain
An Introduction
- Peter Dorey - University of Cardiff, UK
- Ideas, Problem Definition, Issues and Agenda-Setting
- Key Individuals
- Key Institutions
- Parliament and Public Policy Implementation
- The shift from Government to Governance (including marketization, and devolution)
- The increasing role of the private and voluntary sectors in policy delivery
- Internationalisation and Europeanization of policies and policy making
- Evaluation, audits and the New Public Management
The result is a contemporary and engaging text that will be required reading for all students of British politics, public policy and public administration.
A useful book for students new to policy. Well written and easy to read. Well recommended.
Informative and easy to read. Supports students with sociology and social policy units.
Answers a lot of questions regarding how policies inform laws, and how ideas are used to develop policy.
brilliant reading for students to start off the social policy unit.
Contemporary material provided in an accessible format.
Not specific enough in relation to educational policy, to be acore reader, but providees keen insights into the wider political and policy making picture to provide a sound base.
Limited sources available for students to cope with
A well written book critically discussing topical issues surrounding policy making in the UK.
This is a comprehensive overview of the policy making process in Britain, and is useful as a supplimentary text for students on introductory courses for social policy, as many need a grounding in how policy gets made as much as the details and consequences of the policies themselves
A good book that will complement the existing text books in a course that explores how crime can be prevented and reduced.
This text provides an accessible and thorough introduction to those new to politics and policy-making. It also helps those with more prior knowledge and interest take their understanding further.
The boxes offer useful and concise summaries for teaching and class discussions.
If undertaking any kind of policy analysis this book would prove very useful. Makes the 'messy' nature of policy easy to understand by the way it is broken down into key topic areas and examines core subjects such as political ideology and policy agenda.
- Updated to account for changes in British politics since the 2010 election
- More of an emphasis on theory
- More content on devolution and Europe, particularly in the new chapter 7 'The Internationalization of Policy'
- A chapter on 'Policy Evaluation', covering the role of audits, evidence-based policy making and pilot schemes.
