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Producing Health Policy : Knowledge and Knowing in Government Policy Work / by Jo Maybin
(Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy. ISSN:29475813)

Publisher	(London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan)
Year	2016
Edition	1st ed. 2016.
Authors	*Maybin, Jo author SpringerLink (Online service)

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Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	VIII, 172 p : online resource
Notes	In this book Jo Maybin draws on rare access to the inner-workings of England's Department of Health to explore what kinds of knowledge civil servants use when developing policy, how they use it and why. Combining ethnographic data with insights from psychology, socio-linguistics, sociology and philosophy, she demonstrates how civil servants engage in a wide range of knowledge practices in the course of their daily work. These include sharing personal anecdotes, thrashing-out ideas in meetings and creating simplified representations of phenomena, as well as conducting cost-benefit analyses and commissioning academic research. Maybin analyzes the different functions that these various practices serve, from developing personal understandings of issues, to making complex social problems 'thinkable', and meeting the ever-present need to make policies 'happen'. In doing so, she develops an original theory of policy-making as the work of building connections between a policy in development and powerful ideas, people, and instruments, and reveals the 'policy know-how' required by civil servants to be effective in their jobs HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-78654-1
Subjects	LCSH:Social policy LCSH:Welfare state LCSH:Social medicine LCSH:Political planning LCSH:Europe—Politics and government FREE:Social Policy FREE:Welfare FREE:Medical Sociology FREE:Public Policy FREE:European Politics
Classification	LCC:HV70-72 DC23:361.61
ID	8000070385
ISBN	9781349786541