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Record Nr.

UNINA9910369906603321

Autore

Bache Ian

Titolo

Evidence, Policy and Wellbeing / / by Ian Bache

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2020

ISBN

9783030213763

3030213765

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 135 p. 1 illus.)

Collana

Wellbeing in Politics and Policy, , 2629-2408

Disciplina

320.6

306.0941

Soggetti

Political planning

Europe - Politics and government

Economic development

Political science

Comparative government

Public Policy

European Politics

Development Studies

Political Theory

Comparative Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Evidence and Policy -- Chapter 3: Wellbeing -- Chapter 4: ‘What works’ for wellbeing? -- Chapter 5: Evidence in the policy stream: the multiple streams approach -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyses the role of evidence in taking wellbeing from an issue that has government attention to one that leads to significant policy change. In doing so, it draws on contributions from political science, policy theory and literature specifically on the evidence and policy relationship. The book has three main aims: to understand the role of evidence in shaping the prospects for wellbeing in public policy; to inform the barriers literature on the use of evidence in policy; and, to



inform the multiple streams approach (MSA) to agenda-setting. While the book focuses on developments at UK government level, a number of the findings and arguments presented here have wider significance, both in relation to wellbeing developments elsewhere and to the theoretical literatures on agenda-setting and evidence use. The book draws on insights from interviews with policy-makers and stakeholders that were undertaken as part of the work of the Community Wellbeing Evidence Programme of the What Works Centre for Wellbeing.