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What's your problem? : making sense of social problems and the policy process /
This books is an essential introduction and guide for a critical engagement with social problems. In short, What's your (social) problem and what are you going to do about it?
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Northwich :
Critical Publishing,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; What's Your Problem?; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Meet the author; Acknowledgements; Introduction; So what is your problem?; The problem policy process; I'm no expert!; Policy praxis; The format of the book; Section 1 Reading Policy; 1 Making claims; This is a real problem; Foundationalism; Coherentism; Reliabilism; Pragmatism; Modest claims; Dispute and agreement; Who's responsible?; Natural causes; Individualist explanations; Social political and economic relations; Reasonable doubt; 2 Equivalence and difference; Making the difference; Shaping the world; Other categories.
- Them and usDrawing a distinction?; 3 Legitimate assumptions; What is legitimacy?; So what is rhetoric?; Revealing assumptions; The bases of legitimacy; Authorisation
- because I say so; Moral evaluation
- it's the right healthy, normal 'natural' thing to do; Rationalisation
- because it is reasonable; Mythopoesis
- the moral of the story is ... ; Are you convinced?; Behind the curtain; Section 2 Writing Policy; 4 The role of the policy analyst; What is policy analysis?; Policy analyst as scholar; Scholar
- scientist; Scholar
- interpretivist; Policy analyst as technician.
- Policy analyst as advocateA distinct role?; 5 What do you think?; Ethics; Consequentialist ethics; Deontological ethics; Virtue ethics; So which of these ethical approaches is ethical?; Liberty, security and equality; Liberty; Security; Equality; The value of values; The politics of ethics; 6 Making your case
- framing; A context for communication; The way people see the world; In the frame; The struggle for meaning; Using frames; Framing the story; Information or propaganda?; Section 3 Performing Policy; 7 Policy process; Model making; Expert model; Deliberative model; Crisis model.
- Picking up the threads8 Power; First dimension of power
- getting someone to do what they otherwise would not do; Second dimension of power
- setting the agenda; Third dimension of power
- shaping preferences; Fourth dimension of power
- disruptive power; The pursuit of power; 9 Activities; Feeble-minded policies; The control of tobacco; The piqueteros; Conclusion; Conclusion; A view from nowhere?; Reflexive policy praxis; References; Index.