Producing health policy [electronic resource] : knowledge and knowing in government policy work / Jo Maybin.
2016
RA395.G6 M369 2016eb
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Title
Producing health policy [electronic resource] : knowledge and knowing in government policy work / Jo Maybin.
Author
Maybin, Jo, author.
ISBN
9781349786541 (electronic book)
1349786543 (electronic book)
9781137583925
1349786543 (electronic book)
9781137583925
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
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1 online resource.
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RA395.G6 M369 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.10941
Summary
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 philosophy, she demonstrates how civil servants engage in a wide range of knowledge practices in the course of their daily work. These include sharing personal anecdotes, thrashing-out ideas in meetings and creating simplified representations of phenomena, as well as conducting cost-benefit analyses and commissioning academic research. Maybin analyzes the different functions that these various practices serve, from developing personal understandings of issues, to making complex social problems 'thinkable', and meeting the ever-present need to make policies 'happen'. In doing so, she develops an original theory of policy-making as the work of building connections between a policy in development and powerful ideas, people, and instruments, and reveals the 'policy know-how' required by civil servants to be effective in their jobs.
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Palgrave studies in science, knowledge, and policy.
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Table of Contents
Knowledge and policy in the literature
Knowledge sources
Learning through interaction
Analytical practices
Articulating people, ideas, and instruments
Forms of knowledge and knowing in policy work.
Knowledge sources
Learning through interaction
Analytical practices
Articulating people, ideas, and instruments
Forms of knowledge and knowing in policy work.