1st Edition

Interpreting Governance, High Politics, and Public Policy Essays commemorating Interpreting British Governance

Edited By Nick Turnbull Copyright 2016
226 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Interpreting Governance, High Politics, and Public Policy  offers the latest perspectives on the interpretive approach to governance and public policy research. This book commemorates more than a decade of governance research by Mark Bevir and R.A.W. Rhodes, the leading exponents of interpretive political science in the United Kingdom. It explains how insights from the interpretive... Read more

Introduction: Interpreting Governance, High Politics, and Public Policy Nick Turnbull  Part 1: Governance and Metagovernance  1. Re-centring the British Political Tradition: Explaining Contingency in New Labour and the Coalition’s Governance Statecraft Patrick Diamond, David Richards and Martin Smith  2. Critical Encounters with Decentred Theory: Tradition, Metagovernance, and Parrhēsia as Storytelling Paul Fawcett  3. Interpreting Hillsborough Andrew Taylor  Part 2: High Politics and Political History  4. Executive Governance: An interpretive Analysis R.A.W. Rhodes  5. Political Ideas and ‘Real’ Politics David Craig  6. The Meanings of Progressive Politics: Interpretivism and its Limits Emily Robinson  Part 3: Policymaking  7. Extending Interpretivism: Articulating the Practice Dimension in Bevir and Rhodes’s Differentiated Polity Model Hendrik Wagenaar  8. The Inadequacy of Interpretivism: Explaining Britain's Failure to ‘Number the People’ Perri 6 and Christine Bellamy  9. Interpretivism and Public Policy Research Helen Sullivan  Conclusion  10: Interpreting British Governance: Ten Years On Mark Bevir and R.A.W. Rhodes

Biography

Nick Turnbull is Lecturer in Politics at The University of Manchester, where he researches political communication and political rhetoric, public policy and governance, and the philosophy of social science. He is a specialist in the philosophy of questioning, applied to the social sciences.