Activism and the Policy Process

Description

Activists, whether obstructing woodchipping or protecting rainforest, demanding childcare or campaigning for AIDS, are as much a part of the political landscape as the media, parliament, industry groups or trade unions. This collection explores the idea of policy activism and its relationship to the processes which set the policy agenda. The text locates activism within the links between political initiatives and social change by using a range of case studies across policy areas of housing, health care delivery, education, industrial relations and consumer protection.

Most of the contributors are seasoned policy activists as well as being either professional policy analysts or academics. The editor of this collection, ANNA YEATMAN, is a well-known contributor to contemporary political theory, among whose books are a seminal collection of essays on the interaction between social movements and the Australian state, Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats.