What is Policy?
Compare with What is the Policy Process? and What is public policy and why does it matter? The first thing we do when studying public policy is to try to define it – as, for example, the sum total of...
View ArticlePolicy Concepts in 1000 Words: Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Critical Policy...
See also three more recent posts: Policy in 500 Words: Power and Knowledge Policy in 500 Words: Feminist Institutionalism Policy Analysis in 750 words: Linda Tuhiwai Smith (2012) Decolonizing...
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Paul Cairney is Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling p.a.cairney@stir.ac.uk. This post will appear in The Guardian’s Political Science blog. It is based on his book The...
View ArticleHydraulic fracturing policy in comparative perspective: how typical is the UK...
This paper – Cairney PSA 2016 UK fracking 15.3.16– collects insights from the comparative study of ‘fracking’ policy, including a forthcoming book using the ‘Advocacy Coalition Framework’ to compare...
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