Disrupted Governance: Towards a New Policy Science

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Disrupted Governance: Towards a New Policy Science
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Kris Hartley
By (author) Glen David Kuecker
SeriesElements in Public Policy
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:75
Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 151
ISBN/Barcode 9781009125680
ClassificationsDewey:320.6
Audience
General
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 17 March 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

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.