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Disrupted Governance: Towards a New Policy Science
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Disrupted Governance: Towards a New Policy Science
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Kris Hartley
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By (author) Glen David Kuecker
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Series | Elements in Public Policy |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:75 | Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 151 |
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ISBN/Barcode |
9781009125680
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Classifications | Dewey:320.6 |
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Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises; Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
17 March 2022 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
This Element explores the uncertain future of public policy practice and scholarship in an age of radical disruption. Building on foundational ideas in policy sciences, we argue that an anachronistic instrumental rationalism underlies contemporary policy logic and limits efforts to understand new policy challenges. We consider whether the policy sciences framework can be reframed to facilitate deeper understandings of this anachronistic epistemic, in anticipation of a research agenda about epistemic destabilization and contestation. The Element applies this theoretical provocation to environmental policy and sustainability, issues about which policymaking proceeds amid unpredictable contexts and rising sociopolitical turbulence that portend a liminal state in the transition from one way of thinking to another. The Element concludes by contemplating the fate of policy's epistemic instability, anticipating what policy understandings will emerge in a new system, and questioning the degree to which either presages a seismic shift in the relationship between policy and society.
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