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- 008 190711s2020 enk b 001 0 eng
- 020 __ |a 9780198793298 (hardback)
- 020 __ |z 9780192511782 (epub)
- 040 __ |a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d ZSU
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- 050 00 |a JN238 |b .C35 2020
- 082 00 |a 320.60941 |2 23
- 099 __ |a CAL 022020212065
- 100 1_ |a Cairney, Paul, |d 1973- |e author.
- 245 10 |a Why isn't government policy more preventive? / |c Paul Cairney and Emily St Denny.
- 264 _1 |a Oxford : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2020.
- 300 __ |a viii, 288 pages ; |c 24 cm.
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-281) and index.
- 520 __ |a "If 'prevention is better than cure', why isn't policy more preventive? Policymakers only have the ability to pay attention to, and influence, a tiny proportion of their responsibilities, and they engage in a policymaking environment of which they have limited understanding and even less control. This simple insight helps explain the gap between stated policymaker expectations and actual policy outcomes. We use these insights to produce new empirical studies of 'wicked' problems with practical lessons. We find that the UK and Scottish governments both use a simple idiom - prevention is better than cure - to sell a package of profound changes to policy and policymaking. Taken at face value, this focus on 'prevention' policy seems like an idea 'whose time has come'. Yet, 'prevention' is too ambiguous until governments give it meaning. No government has found a way to turn this vague aim into a set of detailed, consistent, and defendable policies. We examine what happens when governments make commitments without knowing how to deliver them. We compare their policymaking contexts, roles and responsibilities, policy styles, language, commitments, and outcomes in several cross-cutting policy areas (including health, families, justice, and employability) to make sense of their respective experiences. We use multiple insights from policy theory to help research and analyse the results. The results help policymakers reflect on how to avoid a cycle of optimism and despair when trying to solve problems that their predecessors did not"-- |c Provided by publisher.
- 650 _0 |a Policy sciences.
- 650 _0 |a Political planning |z Great Britain.
- 650 _0 |a Political planning |z Scotland.
- 700 1_ |a St Denny, Emily, |e author.
- 950 __ |a SCNU |f D756.122/C136