LEADER 04913nam 22005895 450 001 9911021150603321 005 20250812124738.0 010 $a1-349-96134-5 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-349-96134-4 035 $a(CKB)40259242100041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32261188 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32261188 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-349-96134-4 035 $a(OCoLC)1521233388 035 $a(EXLCZ)9940259242100041 100 $a20250812d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPoststructural Policy Analysis $eA Guide to Practice /$fby Carol Bacchi, Susan Goodwin 205 $a2nd ed. 2025. 210 1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (195 pages) 225 1 $aPolitical Science and International Studies 311 08$a1-349-96133-7 327 $aPart I: Asking New Policy Questions -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Making Politics Visible: The WPR Approach -- Chapter 3: Key Themes and Concepts -- Part II: Interrogating Policies as Constitutive: WPR Applications -- Chapter 4: Making and Unmaking ?problems? -- Chapter 5: Making and Unmaking ?subjects? -- Chapter 6: Making and Unmaking ?objects? -- Chapter 7: Making and Unmaking ?places? -- Chapter 8: Poststructural Interview Analysis: Politicizing "personhood" by Carol Bacchi and Jennifer Bonham -- Chapter 9: Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThis book offers a distinctive approach to policy analysis and a refreshing and politically engaged way of thinking about policy. It clearly articulates a Foucault-influenced poststructural perspective on policy and policy analysis for researchers, students and policy makers. As a "guide to practice", the book introduces a critical analytical approach to policy analysis called ?What?s the Problem Represented to be?? (WPR). Instead of treating policy as simply the government?s best efforts to address problems, this analytic strategy highlights how policies produce ?problems? as particular sorts of problem and how governing takes place through these problematisations. First published in 2016, the book describes the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of the WPR approach to policy analysis in a detailed and accessible manner. It features examples of application of the approach with topics as diverse as obesity, economic policy, migration, drug and alcohol policy, and gender equality. In this second edition, the authors centralise a complementary analytic strategy for poststructural policy analysis?poststructural interview analysis (PIA). This edition integrates this material as a new chapter which sets out PIA as a novel approach to poststructural interview analysis and includes examples of PIA applications. The new chapter provides excellent guidance to undertake interview analysis in a manner congruent with the poststructural precepts set out in the book. Carol Bacchi is Professor Emerita of Politics at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her work over the past forty years has encouraged rethinking of taken-for-granted truths about women?s history, equality policy and public policy generally. Major publications include Same Difference: Feminism and Sexual Difference (1990/2024), Women, Policy and Politics: The Construction of Policy Problems (1999), The Politics of Affirmative Action: 'Women', Equality & Category Politics (1996) and Analysing Policy: What?s the Problem Represented to Be? (2009). Susan Goodwin is Professor of Policy Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on social policy and policy processes, and she is involved in critical policy analysis with organisations at local, national and international levels. Her books include Working Across Difference: Social Work, Social Policy and Social Justice (2019), Markets, Rights and Power in Australian Social Policy (2015), Schools, Communities and Social Inclusion (2011) and Social Policy for Social Change (2010). . 410 0$aPolitical Science and International Studies 606 $aPolitical planning 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aAmerica$xPolitics and government 606 $aPublic Policy 606 $aPolitical Science 606 $aAmerican Politics 615 0$aPolitical planning. 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 0$aAmerica$xPolitics and government. 615 14$aPublic Policy. 615 24$aPolitical Science. 615 24$aAmerican Politics. 676 $a320.6 700 $aBacchi$b Carol$0787610 701 $aGoodwin$b Susan$0787611 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911021150603321 996 $aPoststructural Policy Analysis$91755174 997 $aUNINA