Making Policy Move

Towards a Politics of Translation and Assemblage

Clarke, John, Bainton, Dave, John Clarke, Dave Bainton, Noémi Lendvai, Paul Stubbs

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781447313366
• eBook ISBN: 9781447313397
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Public Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Responding to increasing interest in the movement of policies between places, sites and settings, this timely book presents a critical alternative to approaches centred on ideas of policy transfer, dissemination or learning. Written by key people in the field, it argues that treating policy's movement as an active process of 'translation', in which policies are interpreted, inflected and re-worked as they change location, is of critical importance for studying policy. The book provides an exciting and accessible analytical and methodological foundation for examining policy in this way and will be a valuable resource for those studying policy processes at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. Mixing collectively written chapters with individual case studies of policies and practices, the book provides a powerful and productive introduction to rethinking policy studies through translation. It ends with a commitment to the possibilities of thinking and doing 'policy otherwise'.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• One: Moving policy studies
• Two: Translation, assemblage and beyond: towards a conceptual repertoire
• Three: Performing reform in South East Europe: consultancy, translation and flexible agency
• Four: The managerialised university: translating and assembling the right to manage
• Five: Soft governance, policy fictions and translation zones: European policy spaces and their making
• Six: Translating education: assembling ways of knowing otherwise
• Seven: ‘Policy otherwise’: towards an ethics and politics of policy translation
• References