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 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.
This is a very good textbook that offers students a good overview of the policy process in the UK context. It works very well as a source of recommended readings on public policy institutions, and is especially useful insofar as it connects these institutions to the main theories and concepts in public policy.
This revised edition is greatly appreciated as many books on policy analysis are quite dated. The book provides students with an excellent overview of the policy process and includes some good examples related to social policy.
This revised edition has new chapters and is an essential read for students of UK politics and social policy.
interesting and well-researched
This is a useful additional text book to be used in Social Policy. Helps students to understand the reasons for policy making in Britain.
- 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.
