Interdisciplinary Approaches for Policy Design and Evaluation
Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm
ISBN: 978-3-032-43549-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
This open access book examines how social science theories can help to inform policy design and evaluation by paying attention to how citizens experience public policies.
Whether recycling, getting screened for diseases, or enrolling in higher education, public policies generally aim at producing changes in the individuals they target. Understanding not only whether but also how these changes are achieved or fail to materialize is therefore key for both policy evaluation and design. Up until now, however, the input of social science to policy evaluation has been largely methodological rather than theoretical. Drawing on inputs from cognitive psychology, sociology, political science and public administration, this book shows how social science theories can help inform the analysis of how people experience policies. Through an interdisciplinary approach, it demonstrates the limits of the current tendency to rely on individual behavioural change, emphasizing the importance of structural reforms informed by individual experiences.
The book will appeal to scholars and students of public policy, political science, sociology and psychology.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1: Introduction: theorizing individual experiences of policies across disciplines by Anne Revillard & Lou Safra.- Chapter 2: Policies for human beings: from nudges to behavioural public policy by Mathieu Perona.- Chapter 3: Policy reception by Anne Revillard.- Chapter 4: Perceiving policies as fair or unfair by Jessica Rea and Pascal Boyer.- Chapter 5: Inequalities in ordinary relations with the state by Alexis Spire.- Chapter 6: How poverty affects relations to policy by Jessica Rea.- Chapter 7: Towards useful concepts: why we need an overarching conceptual framework for welfare experiences by Esca van Blarikom, Ben Geiger, Erika Kathleen Gubrium, Laura Robertson, Håvard Aaslund, Robert De Vries and the Welfare Experiences team.- Chapter 8: Trusting what social organizations say by Christophe Heintz and Ákos Szegofi.- Chapter 9: The legal consciousness of sociologically grounded policy implementation by Susan Silbey and Ruthanne Huising.- Chapter 10: Administrative Burden: How Policy Implementation and Administrative Practices Shape Citizens' Experience of the State by Blandine Mesnel.- Chapter 11: Policy Feedback: How Public Policies Shape Political Subjects by Paulus Wagner.
