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| critical analysis of policy: Critical Approaches to Education Policy Analysis Michelle D. Young, Sarah Diem, 2016-11-18 This volume informs the growing number of educational policy scholars on the use of critical theoretical frameworks in their analyses. It offers insights on which theories are appropriate within the area of critical educational policy research and how theory and method interact and are applied in critical policy analyses. Highlighting how different critical theoretical frameworks are used in educational policy research to reshape and redefine the way scholars approach the field, the volume offers work by emerging and senior scholars in the field of educational policy who apply critical frameworks to their research. The chapters examine a wide range of current educational policy topics through different critical theoretical lenses, including critical race theory, critical discourse analysis, postmodernism, feminist poststructuralism, critical theories related to LGBTQ issues, and advocacy approaches. |
| critical analysis of policy: Critical Policy Discourse Analysis Nicolina Montesano Montessori, Michael Farrelly, Jane Mulderrig, 2019-12-27 This book provides a series of contemporary and international policy case studies analysed through discursive methodological approaches in the traditions of critical discourse analysis, social semiotics and discourse theory. This is the first volume that connects this discursive methodology systematically to the field of critical policy analysis and will therefore be an essential book for researchers who wish to include a discursive analysis in their critical policy research. |
| critical analysis of policy: Ethics, The Social Sciences, and Policy Analysis Daniel Callahan, Bruce Jennings, 2012-12-06 The social sciences playa variety of multifaceted roles in the policymaking process. So varied are these roles, indeed, that it is futile to talk in the singular about the use of social science in policymaking, as if there were one constant relationship between two fixed and stable entities. Instead, to address this issue sensibly one must talk in the plural about uses of dif ferent modes of social scientific inquiry for different kinds of policies under various circumstances. In some cases, the influence of social scientific research is direct and tangible, and the connection between the find ings and the policy is easy to see. In other cases, perhaps most, its influence is indirect-one small piece in a larger mosaic of politics, bargaining, and compromise. Occasionally the findings of social scientific studies are explicitly drawn upon by policymakers in the formation, implementation, or evaluation of particular policies. More often, the categories and theoretical models of social science provide a general background orientation within which policymakers concep tualize problems and frame policy options. At times, the in fluence of social scientific work is cognitive and informational in nature; in other instances, policymakers use social science primarily for symbolic and political purposes in order to le gitimate preestablished goals and strategies. Nonetheless, amid this diversity and variety, troubling general questions persistently arise. |
| critical analysis of policy: Action Research in Policy Analysis Koen P.R. Bartels, Julia M. Wittmayer, 2018-06-27 Today’s pressing political, social, economic, and environmental crises urgently ask for effective policy responses and fundamental transitions towards sustainability supported by a sound knowledge base and developed in collaboration between all stakeholders. This book explores how action research forms a valuable methodology for producing such collaborative knowledge and action. It outlines the recent uptake of action research in policy analysis and transition research and develops a distinct and novel approach that is both critical and relational. By sharing action research experiences in a variety of settings, the book seeks to explicate ambitions, challenges, and practices involved with fostering policy changes and sustainability transitions. As such it provides crucial guidance and encouragement for future action research in policy analysis and transition research. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of policy analysis and transition research and more broadly to public administration and policy, urban and regional studies, political science, research and innovation, sustainability science, and science and technology studies. It will also speak to practitioners, policymakers and philanthropic funders aiming to engage in or fund action research. |
| critical analysis of policy: Social Policy Fiona Williams, 2021-07-13 Welfare states face profound challenges. Widening economic and social inequalities have been intensified by austerity politics, sharpened by the rise in ethno-nationalism and exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, recent decades have seen a resurgence of social justice activism at the local and transnational level. Yet the transformative power of feminist, anti-racist and post/decolonial thinking has become relatively marginal to core social policy theory, while other critical approaches – around disability, sexuality, migration, age and the environment – have only selectively found recognition. This book provides a much-needed new analysis of this complex landscape, drawing together critical approaches in social policy with intersectionality and political economy. Fiona Williams contextualizes contemporary social policies not only in the global crisis of finance capitalism, but also in the interconnected global crises of care, ecology, and racialized borders. These shape and are shaped at national scale by the intersecting dynamics of Family, Nation, Work and Nature. Through critical assessment of these realities, the book probes the ethical, prefigurative and transformative possibilities for a future welfare commons. This significant intervention will animate social policy thinking, teaching and research. It will be essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the complexities of social policy for the years ahead. |
| critical analysis of policy: Governance Analysis Emma Carmel, 2019 This state-of-the-art book develops the parameters of ‘governance analysis’ as a critical mode of enquiry. From a synthesis of theoretical approaches to public policy and governance, it offers a critical analytical perspective for empirical research and the development of theories of governance. This perspective is applied to seven detailed examples, from local to international and comparative public policy. Both innovative and unique, Governance Analysis shows that the messy real life of policymaking and its implications can be analysed systematically and insightfully without retreating to outdated ‘models’ of public policymaking or case-specific critique. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} span.s1 {font: 10.0px Helvetica} |
| critical analysis of policy: Critical Policy Studies Michael Orsini, Miriam Smith, 2011-11-01 Traditional definitions of public policy in Canada have been challenged in recent years by globalization, the transition to a knowledge-based economy, and the rise of new technologies. Critical Policy Studies describes how new policy problems such as border screening and global warming have been catapulted onto the agenda in the neo-liberal era. The book also surveys the recent evolution of critical approaches to policy studies, which have transformed decades-old issues. Contributors conceptualize the ways in which public policy questions cut across the traditional fields of policy. They cover both topical approaches such as Foucauldian and post-empiricist analysis and new applications of established perspectives, such as political economy. Conventional methodologies reveal new connotations when used to explore such topics as security issues, Canadian sovereignty, welfare reform, environmental protocol, Aboriginal policy, and reproductive technologies. Critical Policy Studies provides an alternative to existing approaches to policy studies, and will be welcomed by scholars, students, and practitioners of political science and public policy. |
| critical analysis of policy: Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education Ana M. Martínez-Alemán, Brian Pusser, Estela Mara Bensimon, 2015-06 An essential guide to incorporating critical research into higher education scholarship. Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award of the Post-secondary Education Division of the American Educational Research Association Critical theory has much to teach us about higher education. By linking critical models, methods, and research tools with an advocacy-driven vision of the central challenges facing postsecondary researchers and staff, Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education makes a significant—and long overdue—contribution to the development of the field. The contributors argue that, far from being overly abstract, critical tools and methods are central to contemporary scholarship and can have practical policy implications when brought to the study of higher education. They argue that critical research design and critical theories help scholars see beyond the normative models and frameworks that have long limited our understanding of students, faculty, institutions, the organization and governance of higher education, and the policies that shape the postsecondary arena. A rigorous and invaluable guide for researchers seeking innovative approaches to higher education and the morass of traditionally functionalist, rational, and neoliberal thinking that mars the field, this book is also essential for instructors who wish to incorporate the lessons of critical scholarship into their course development, curriculum, and pedagogy. |
| critical analysis of policy: The Critical Handbook of Money Laundering Petrus C. van Duyne, Jackie H. Harvey, Liliya Y. Gelemerova, 2018-12-30 The overarching aim of this book is to bring order to the subjects of money laundering and of the anti-money laundering frameworks that have been written over the past thirty years. It provides scholars, practitioners and policy makers with a guide to what is known of the subject thus far. The book examines critically the underlying assumptions of research and of policy-making in the field and offers a systematic review of the most important policy and academic literature on the subject. |
| critical analysis of policy: Wellbeing, Equity and Education Jennifer Spratt, 2018-07-13 This book critically examines multiple discourses of wellbeing in relation to the composite aims of schooling. Drawing from a Scottish study, the book disentangles the discursive complexity, to better understand what can happen in the name of wellbeing, and in particular, how wellbeing is linked to learning in schools. Arguing that educational discourses have been overshadowed by discourses of other groups, the book examines the political and ideological policy aims that can be supported by different discourses of wellbeing. It also uses interview data to show how teachers and policy actors accepted, or re-shaped and remodelled the policy discourses as they made sense of them in their own work. When addressing schools’ responses to inequalities, discussions are often framed in terms of wellbeing. Yet wellbeing as a concept is poorly defined and differently understood across academic and professional disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, health promotion, and social care. Nonetheless, its universally positive connotations allow policy changes to be ushered in, unchallenged. Powerful actions can be exerted through the use of soft vocabulary as the discourse of wellbeing legitimates schools’ intervention into personal aspects of children’s lives. As educators worldwide struggle over the meaning and purpose of schooling, discourses of wellbeing can be mobilised in support of different agendas. This book demonstrates how this holds both dangers and opportunities for equality in education. Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach is used to offer a way forward in which different understandings of wellbeing can be drawn together to offer a perspective that enhances young people’s freedoms in education and their freedoms gained through education. |
| critical analysis of policy: Political Analysis Colin Hay, 2017-03-14 Political Analysis provides an accessible and engaging yet original introduction and distinctive contribution, to the analysis of political structures, institutions, ideas and behaviours, and above all, to the political processes through which they are constantly made and remade. Following an innovative introduction to the main approaches and concepts in political analysis, the text focuses thematically on the key issues which currently concern and divide political analysts, including the boundaries of the political; the question of structure, agency and power; the dynamics of political change; the relative significance of ideas and material factors; and the challenge posed by postmodernism which the author argues the discipline can strengthen itself by addressing without allowing it to become a recipe for paralysis. |
| critical analysis of policy: Ethnography and Education Policy Claudia Matus, 2020-08-14 This book addresses the relationship between the production of social problems in educational policy, the research practices required to inform policy, and the daily production of normalcies and differences in school contexts. It reports on the opportunities and consequences for policy, research, and practice when normalcy is stigmatized at the same level as difference. The book employs a critical analysis combining queer, feminist, and post-representational theories to understand the implications of dominant ways of understanding the division between normal and different subjectivities and how they reiterate structures of inequality in schools. |
| critical analysis of policy: Defending the Holy Land Zeev Maoz, 2009 A scathing and brilliant revisionist history, Defending the Holy Land is the most comprehensive analysis to date of Israel's national security and foreign policy, from the inception of the State of Israel to the present. Book jacket. |
| critical analysis of policy: Critical Theory and Qualitative Data Analysis in Education Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, Jamila Lee-Johnson, Ashley N. Gaskew, 2018-07-04 Critical Theory and Qualitative Data Analysis in Education offers a path-breaking explanation of how critical theories can be used within the analysis of qualitative data to inform research processes, such as data collection, analysis, and interpretation. This contributed volume offers examples of qualitative data analysis techniques and exemplars of empirical studies that employ critical theory concepts in data analysis. By creating a clear and accessible bridge between data analysis and critical social theories, this book helps scholars and researchers effectively translate their research designs and findings to multiple audiences for more equitable outcomes and disruption of historical and contemporary inequality. |
| critical analysis of policy: Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality Mieke Verloo, 2007-01-01 This book aims to map the diversity of meanings of gender equality across Europe and reflects on the contested concept of gender equality. In its exploration of the diverse meanings of gender equality it not only takes into account the existence of different visions of gender equality, and the way in which different political and theoretical debates crosscut these visions, but also reflects upon the geographical contexts in which visions and debates over gender equality are located. The contextual locations where these visions and debates take place include the European Union and member states such as Austria, the Netherlands, Hungary, Slovenia, Greece, and Spain. In all of these settings, the different meanings of gender equality are explored comparatively in relation to the issues of family policies, domestic violence, and gender inequality in politics, while specific national contexts discuss the issues of prostitution (Austria, Slovenia), migration (the Netherlands), homosexual rights (Spain), and antidiscrimination (Hungary). The multiple meanings of gender equality are studied through Critical Frame Analysis, a methodology that builds on social movement theory and that was refined further with elements of gender and political theory within the context of the MAGEEQ research project |
| critical analysis of policy: Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis Dvora Yanow, 2000 This is a guide to interpretative techniques and methods for policy research. The author describes what interpretative approaches are and what they can mean to policy analysis, and then shifts the frame of reference from thinking about values as costs and benefits to thinking about them more as a set of meanings. |
| critical analysis of policy: The Case for Industrial Policy Howard Pack, Kamal Saggi, 2006 What are the underlying rationales for industrial policy? Does empirical evidence support the use of industrial policy for correcting market failures that plague the process of industrialization? To address these questions, the authors provide a critical survey of the analytical literature on industrial policy. They also review some recent industry successes and argue that only a limited role was played by public interventions. Moreover, the recent ascendance of international industrial networks, which dominate the sectors in which less developed countries have in the past had considerable success, implies a further limitation on the potential role of industrial policies as traditionally understood. Overall, there appears to be little empirical support for an activist government policy even though market failures exist that can, in principle, justify the use of industrial policy. |
| critical analysis of policy: India's New Economic Policy Waquar Ahmed, Amitabh Kundu, Richard Peet, 2010-10-04 Conventional interpretations of the New Economic Policy introduced in India in 1991 see this program of economic liberalization as transforming the Indian economy and leading to a substantial increase in the rate of India’s economic growth. But in a country like India, growth is not enough. Who benefits from the new growth regime, and can it significantly improve the conditions of livelihood for India’s 800 million people with incomes below $2.00 a day? This edited volume looks at international policy regimes and their national adoption under strategic conditions of economic crisis and coercion, and within longer-term structural changes in the power calculus of global capitalism. The contributors examine long-term growth tendencies, poverty and employment rates at the national level, regional level and local levels in India; the main growth centers; the areas and people left out; the advantages and deficiencies of the existing policy regime, and alternative economic policies for India. Bringing together the leading figures in the discussion on India’s economic policy, this volume is the authoritative critical study of India’s New Economic Policy. |
| critical analysis of policy: Critical Perspectives on Think Tanks Landry, Julien, 2021-07-31 This innovative book explores think tanks from the perspective of critical policy studies, showcasing how knowledge, power and politics intersect with the ways in which think tanks intervene in public policy. |
| critical analysis of policy: Cultivating Excellence in Education Annette Rasmussen, Christian Ydesen, 2020-02-05 This book critically analyses the current education political strategy of cultivating excellence in education. It shows how the new policy for selecting talented students in Denmark deconstructs the compromise from which the comprehensive school was built and reduces equal opportunities. It discusses how the current practice of measurement, selection and guidance of talented students brings about significant changes in education policies, in pedagogic practices, a restructuring of school organisations, and changed requirements of teachers. It explains how the internal differentiation of education systems based on self-selection and free choice, but also on new assessment techniques, tends to widen the inequality gap between students. The analysis clearly shows the relationship between the circulation of new ideas and normative frameworks at international level, and their transfer into national policies, while situating these developments in a socio-historical perspective. The book illustrates by means of a concrete case study with important empirical data that demonstrate the reality and influence of this new policy on the day-to-day work of teachers. |
| critical analysis of policy: Why Nations Fail Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, 2013-09-17 Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence? Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories. Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including: - China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West? - Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority? - What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions? Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world. |
| critical analysis of policy: Planning Major Infrastructure Tim Marshall, 2013 This book analyses the planning and policy world of major infrastructure as it is moving now in Europe and the UK. Have some countries managed to generate genuine consensus on how the large changes are progressed? What can we learn from the different ways countries manage these challenges, to inform better spatial planning and more intelligent political steering? Case studies of the key features of policy and planning approaches in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK are at the core of Planning Major Infrastructure. This includes the different regimes introduced in England and Wales, and Scotland, brought in by reforms since 2006. High speed rail, renewable energy deployment, water management, waste treatment - all raise critical planning issues. The case studies connect to the big issues of principle which haunt this field of public policy: how can democratic legitimacy be secured? How can ecological and economic transitions be managed? What is the appropriate role of the national government in each of these areas, as against other levels? What part has the EU played, and should it be involved in the future? These are some of the central themes raised in this innovating exploration of this currently high profile field. |
| critical analysis of policy: Feminist Critical Policy Analysis: A perspective from primary and secondary schooling Catherine Marshall, 1997 |
| critical analysis of policy: The Public Policy Process Michael Hill, Frederic Varone, 2014-05-12 The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship between theoretical and practical aspects of policy-making, the book gives a thorough overview of the people and organisations involved in the process. Fully revised and updated for a sixth edition, The Public Policy Process provides |
| critical analysis of policy: Feminist Critical Policy Analysis II Catherine Marshall, 2005-10-26 Setting out to challenge the traditional power basis of the policy decision makers in education, this text illustrates the use of a critical and feminist lens and the creation policies to meet the needs, aspirations and values of women and girls. Focus is on post-secondary education. |
| critical analysis of policy: Policy Worlds Cris Shore, Susan Wright, Davide Però, 2011-04-01 There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance themselves, opening up ways to study power and the construction of regimes of truth. This volume argues that policies are not simply coercive, constraining or confined to static texts; rather, they are productive, continually contested and able to create new social and semantic spaces and new sets of relations. Anthropologists do not stand outside or above systems of governance but are themselves subject to the rhetoric and rationalities of policy. The analyses of policy worlds presented by the contributors to this volume open up new possibilities for understanding systems of knowledge and power and the positioning of academics within them. |
| critical analysis of policy: Complementary Research Methods for Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Chad R. Lochmiller, 2018-08-30 This edited volume brings together leading scholars from the fields of educational leadership and policy studies to discuss qualitative, quantitative, and mixed research methods in an accessible and pedagogically well-designed volume. Authors discuss ways in which various research methodologies and methods can productively be brought together to expand our current understanding of leadership issues and the contemporary policy context that surrounds them. Chapters provide both practical recommendations for using the methods discussed as well as suggestions for further reading. |
| critical analysis of policy: Education Policy, Neoliberalism, and Leadership Practice Karen Elizabeth Starr, 2019 Education Policy, Neoliberalism, and Leadership Practice is a foundational book describing all aspects of neoliberalism and its broad scale impact in education. Drawing on research and canvassing policy developments across a range of contexts, this book critically analyzes neoliberal education policies, the practices and outcomes they spawn, and the purposes they serve. It interrogates how education leaders perceive and interpret neoliberal influences and the dilemmas and opportunities they create, while unpacking questions of why neoliberalism is the basis for educational policy, how neoliberalism impacts on education, and what this means for the future. |
| critical analysis of policy: Neoconservatism and American Foreign Policy Danny Cooper, 2010-11-10 The purpose of this book is to critically engage with a set of ideas and beliefs that define the neoconservative approach to American foreign policy, and illuminate many of the core foreign policy debates that have taken place within the United States over the past several years during the administrations of both George W. Bush and Barack Obama. |
| critical analysis of policy: Debate and Critical Analysis Robert James Branham, 2013-10-16 Rather than approach debate primarily as a form of interscholastic competition, this unique book identifies it as an activity that occurs in many settings: scientific conferences, newspaper op-ed pages, classrooms, courts of law, and everyday domestic life. Debate is discussed as an integral part of academic inquiry in all disciplines. As in all fields of study, various competing views are advanced and supported; Debate and Critical Analysis is designed to better prepare the student to assess and engage them. This text posits four characteristics of true debate -- argument development, clash, extension, and perspective -- which form the basic structure of the book. Each concept or aspect of argument covered is illustrated by an example drawn from contemporary or historical sources, allowing the reader to actually see the techniques and strategies at work. All popular forms of competitive debate, including policy, Lincoln-Douglas, value-oriented, and parliamentary, are discussed in detail -- as embedded in the actual topical controversies with which they are concerned. In this way, the student can learn the structures, reasoning processes, and strategies that may be employed, as well as the practical affairs of debating, from brief-writing to the flowsheet. |
| critical analysis of policy: Impact Evaluation in Practice, Second Edition Paul J. Gertler, Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings, Christel M. J. Vermeersch, 2016-09-12 The second edition of the Impact Evaluation in Practice handbook is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to impact evaluation for policy makers and development practitioners. First published in 2011, it has been used widely across the development and academic communities. The book incorporates real-world examples to present practical guidelines for designing and implementing impact evaluations. Readers will gain an understanding of impact evaluations and the best ways to use them to design evidence-based policies and programs. The updated version covers the newest techniques for evaluating programs and includes state-of-the-art implementation advice, as well as an expanded set of examples and case studies that draw on recent development challenges. It also includes new material on research ethics and partnerships to conduct impact evaluation. The handbook is divided into four sections: Part One discusses what to evaluate and why; Part Two presents the main impact evaluation methods; Part Three addresses how to manage impact evaluations; Part Four reviews impact evaluation sampling and data collection. Case studies illustrate different applications of impact evaluations. The book links to complementary instructional material available online, including an applied case as well as questions and answers. The updated second edition will be a valuable resource for the international development community, universities, and policy makers looking to build better evidence around what works in development. |
| critical analysis of policy: Internationalizing Higher Education Peter Ninnes, Meeri Hellstén, 2005-10 A critical appraisal of internationalizing higher education. Employs contemporary social theory to analyse the subject matter. Australian authors. |
| critical analysis of policy: Frame Reflection Donald A. Schon, 1995-06-29 Why are controversies about such issues as abortion, welfare, persistent poverty, and environmental destruction so intractable? As anyone who has ever engaged in or tried to settle an argument on highly charged issues knows, facts rarely persuade in such situations. This innovative approach to intractable policy controversies shows how reframing the issues can succeed where simply appealing to facts often fails. In Frame Reflection, two of his country's leading organizational theorists and policy analysts show how disputes that in abstract debate or negotiation seem insoluble can sometimes be resolved pragmatically by those who actually have to design and implement the specific programs. The authors illustrate their theory through a detailed examination of three specific programs: the evolution of early retirement programs in Germany; a statewide project for the homeless in Massachusetts; and the development of Project Athena, a large-scale experiment in the use of computers in undergraduate education at MIT. Policy stalemates are inevitable. Yet we know that people sometimes do change their minds, even in situations that at first appeared hopeless. How that happens is the subject of this pathbreaking book. |
| critical analysis of policy: Can Education Change Society? Michael W. Apple, 2013 In this groundbreaking work, Apple pushes educators toward a more substantial understanding of what schools do and what we can do to challenge the relations of dominance and subordination in the larger society. |
| critical analysis of policy: Neoliberalism and Terror Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Christopher Baker-Beall, Lee Jarvis, 2017-10-02 Terrorism and neoliberalism are connected in multiple, complex, and often camouflaged ways. This book offers a critical exploration of some of the intersections between the two, drawing on a wide range of case studies from the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, and the European Union. Contributors to the book investigate the impact of neoliberal technologies and intellectual paradigms upon contemporary counterterrorism – where the neoliberal era frames counter-terrorism within an endless war against political uncertainty. Others resist the notion that a separation ever existed between neoliberalism and counter-terrorism. These contributions explore how counterterrorism is already itself an exercise of neoliberalism which practices a form of ‘Class War on Terror’. Finally, other contributors investigate the representation of terrorism within contemporary cultural products such as video games, in order to explore the perpetuation of neoliberal and statist agendas. In doing all of this, the book situates post-9/11 counter-terrorism discourse and practice within much-needed historical contexts, including the evolution of capitalism and the state. Neoliberalism and Terror will be of great interest to readers within the fields of International Relations, Security Studies, Terrorism Studies, and beyond. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies on Terrorism. |
| critical analysis of policy: Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities Sue Winton, Gillian Parekh, 2020-03-01 Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities offers scholars, students, and practitioners important new knowledge about how current policies impact families, schools, and community partnerships. The book’s authors share a critical orientation towards policy and policy research and invite readers to think differently about what policy is, who policymakers are, and what policy can achieve. Their chapters discuss findings from research grounded in diverse theories, including institutional ethnography, critical disability theory, and critical race theory. The authors encourage scholars of family, school, and community partnerships to ask who benefits from policies (and who loses) and how proposed reforms maintain or disrupt existing relations of power. The chapters present original research on a broad range of policies at the local, state/provincial, and national levels in Canada and the USA. Some authors look closely at the enactment of specific district policies, including a school district’s language translation policy and a policy to create local advisory bodies as part of decentralization efforts. Other chapters reveal the often unacknowledged yet necessary work parents do to meet their children’s needs and enable schools to operate. A few chapters focus on challenges and paradoxes of including families and community members in policymaking processes, including a case where parents demonstrated a preference for a policy that research demonstrates can be detrimental to their children’s future education opportunities. Another set of chapters emphasizes the centrality of policy texts and how language influences the educational experiences and engagement of students and their families. Each chapter concludes with a discussion of implications of the research for educators, families, and other community partners. |
| critical analysis of policy: Critical Theory, Public Policy, and Planning Practice John Forester, 1993-07-01 Too often attacked as hopelessly abstract, contemporary critical social theory can help us to understand both public policy and its analysis. In this book, John Forester shows how policy analysis, planning, and public administration are thoroughly political communicative practices that subtly and selectively organize public attention. Drawing from Jürgen Habermas's critical communications theory of society, Forester shows how policy developments alter the social infrastructure of society. He provides a clear introduction to critical social theory at the same time that he clarifies the practical and political challenges facing public policy analysts, public managers, and planners working in many fields. |
| critical analysis of policy: Envisioning Teaching and Learning of Teachers for Excellence and Equity in Education Xudong Zhu, Huan Song, 2021-08-14 This edited book is a collection of keynote speeches in the 3rd Global Teacher Education Summit in Beijing Normal University from October 14 to 16, 2017. The speeches intend to raise international response in the field of teacher education to the enduringly changing education policy environment. Multiple perspectives are needed in order to gain insights into teaching and teacher education for excellence and equity, as well as disentangle from rigid, inapplicable old paradigms. This book on one hand provides typify global voices, and on the other hand contributes Chinese stories to this field. China’s education manifests a tendency with stronger indigenous features related to the changing domestic climate and international geopolitical position. Chapters included about teaching and teacher education in China can provide local evidence, intelligence and relevance to global audience, and even voice indigenous epistemes within the non-Western platform. This book aims to build such dialogs between global perspectives and Chinese insights for heteroglossia in content and methodology in the field of teaching and teacher education. |
| critical analysis of policy: U.S. History P. Scott Corbett, Volker Janssen, John M. Lund, Todd Pfannestiel, Sylvie Waskiewicz, Paul Vickery, 2024-09-10 U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender. |
| critical analysis of policy: A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens Karl Widerquist, 2018-12-29 At least six different Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments are underway or planned right now in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Kenya. Several more countries are considering conducting experiments. Yet, there seems to be more interest simply in having UBI experiments than in exactly what we want to learn from them. Although experiments can produce a lot of relevant data about UBI, they are crucially limited in their ability to enlighten our understanding of the big questions that bear on the discussion of whether to implement UBI as a national or regional policy. And, past experience shows that results of UBI experiments are particularly vulnerable misunderstanding, sensationalism, and spin. This book examines the difficulties of conducting a UBI experiment and reporting the results in ways that successfully improve public understanding of the probable effects of a national UBI. The book makes recommendations how researchers, reporters, citizens, and policymakers can avoid these problems and get the most out of UBI experiments. |
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She was one of the great critical journalists of the 20th century. of or relating to critics or criticism, especially of literature, film, music, etc.: Critical appreciation of this author’s work has peaked …
Detached Yout Work: A critical analysis of theory and practice
within policy and research. The research aim was to develop a contemporary definition for DYW in order to create a model of best practice and establish a set of key practitioner skills. The thesis …
Empowering People to Make Healthier Choices: A Critical …
Choices: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Tackling Obesity Policy Gavin Brookes1 Abstract In response to the heightened risk that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses to the health …
The evolution of critical thinking in Chinese education …
Feb 9, 2025 · a critical discourse analysis of four central policy documents and three curriculum documents at the basic education level in China from 1999 to 2020. The findings suggest a …
Contemporary Federal Education Policy and Rural Schools: A …
CRITICAL POLICY ANALYSIS As used here, critical policy analysis - an application of critical theory - is a scholarly framework that understands policy as situated in specific contexts and …
Public Policy Analysis: A Critical Overview
Public Policy Analysis: A Critical Overview Sultana Jareen. The present study critically investigates the concept of public policy analysis by discussing the definitions, conceptual …
Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment …
2-Critical analysis of the policy's strengths, limitations, and potential impact on addressing gender disparities in education Strengths: (a) Inclusive Approach: The NEP 2020's emphasis on …
Free Primary Education in Kenya: A Critical Analysis - ARC …
Jomo Kenyatta (1963 – 1978), launched the first FPE policy in 1974. On December 12, 1973 during the celebration of ‘Ten Great Years of Independence,’ he issued a decree that the …
A Critical Analysis of UPE and UBE Policy
The study sought to critical analyze the UPE and UBE policy. The Universal Primary Education (UPE) is a goal stated in many national development plans and pursued with vigour by ...
A Critical Analysis of the U.S. “Pivot” toward the Asia ... - JSTOR
A Critical Analysis of the U.S. “Pivot” toward the Asia-Pacific: How Realistic is Neo-realism? Rong Chen * Introduction At the time of writing, the U.S. had its highest-ranking military delegation in …
MEMORANDUM - City and County of San Francisco
Current HSH policy describes Life Endangerment and Major Service Disruption incidents in a manner that does not directly align with the CIR Form incident types. The discontinuity of HSH …
Developing Critical Thinking: an exercise in social welfare …
Critical Thinking: an exercise in social welfare policy analysis Jane Hoyt‐Oliver, LISW‐S, Ph.D. NACSW APM November, 2017 Proverbs 18:15 – The heart of the discerning acquires …
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ASSET IDENTIFICATION: POLICY, …
requirements. Based on this analysis, a new approach is presented for critical infrastructure asset identification and additional research using multi-criteria decision theory is proposed to …
Critical Analysis of Conventional Transport Economic …
Critical Analysis of Conventional Transport Economic Evaluation Victoria Transport Policy Institute 3 The Conventional Evaluation Framework An evaluation framework defines the analysis …
A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis - Justice Policy Network
higher-level public managers, and has worked for the Office of Policy Analysis at the U.S. Department of Interior. He is the recipient of the 1998 Donald T. Campbell Award of the Policy …
Critical Analysis of US Policy and Options in Dealing with Iraq
Critical Analysis of US Policy and Options in Dealing with Iraq 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) 5d. PROJECT …
The Policy Analysis-Critical Theory Affair: Wildavsky and
The combination of critical theory and policy analysis might raise eye-brows for yet other reasons. Considering the work of Aaron Wildavsky (I979) as paradigmatic here, policy analysis seems …
The gendered construction of teachers’ identities and …
practices: feminist critical discourse analysis of policy texts in Ireland Geraldine Mooney Simmie EPI†STEM National Centre for STEM Education, School of Education, Faculty of Education …
Exploring Critical Multimodal Literacy in Reconstructing Fairy …
The concept of critical multimodal literacy synergizes two significant theories: critical literacy and multimodality. While critical literacy urges us to scrutinize texts through a critical lens, with a …
Critical realism and education policy analysis in conflicts and …
The paper proceeds in five parts. I begin by exploring the place of education policy analysis within conflict-affected contexts and draw on the metaphor of a swing in order to better understand the
Narrating the Belt and Road Education Policy: A Critical …
Higher education policymaking · Critical discourse analysis · Critical policy analysis Introduction The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), commonly known as One Belt and One Road, is China’s …
Rural development policies in Kenya: A critical analysis
The objective of this study is to provide a critical analysis of the extent of the effectiveness of the implementation of rural development policies in Kenya focusing on the decentralization …
Support for Locations Writing Studio - Duke University
(policy memo, critical analysis, précis) • Provide choices for your students within a particular assignment • onsider if your students have sufficient cultural knowledge to successfully …
Gender and Command Over Property: A Critical Gap in …
ment policy makers, and international agencies.3 Today, as a result, the idea that development is not gender-neutral has gained fairly wide acceptance in development enquiry and policy, even …
Corpus Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of Pakistan’s …
Critical Discourse Analysis techniques, a 1.28 million-word-corpus was generated from 32 policy documents collected ... lier and adopts a structured linguistic analysis of policy documents …
Regenerative agriculture in Europe - EASAC
EASAC policy report 44 April 2022 ISBN: 978-3-8047-4372-4 This report can be found at www.easac.eu easac Regenerative agriculture in Europe A critical analysis of contributions to …
Racialization in Early Childhood - ed
Most of the existing critical policy analyses that have been conducted in the field do not directly address racialized discourses (e.g., Moss, Dillon, & Statham, 2000; Moss & Petrie, 2002). …
Redalyc.Locating and Applying Critical Discourse Analysis …
Education Policy Analysis Archives/Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas ISSN: 1068-2341 ... Estados Unidos Nina Lester, Jessica; Lochmiller, Chad R.; Gabriel, Rachael Locating and …
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critical policy analysis approach before explaining how we drew on Ball and colleagues' (1992) policy cycle as a theoretical framework. The fourth section describes the methodology and key …
Protection of Refugees in India: A Critical Analysis - IJARIIE
Protection of Refugees in India: A Critical Analysis ABSTRACT India continues in receiving refugees notwithstanding its overpopulation where millions of humans are underneath ... policy …
Breaking Boundaries: A Critical Trans Framework Analysis of …
persist, reinforcing harmful stereotypes and epistemic injustice. This policy analysis applies a critical trans framework to examine the impact of anti-transgender sports legislation on K-20 …
TAY02215 Critical Discourse Analysis in education policy …
policy documents (1993) and political speeches (2001a) - and there are a few Australian examples of the use of CDA in educational policy analysis by Ian Falk (1994), Allan Luke …
Criticalpolicysociology:historiography ... - ResearchGate
Critical policy sociology: historiography, archaeology and genealogy as methods of policy analysis ...
Unbalanced and unbalancing acts in the Early Years …
the early years. Critical discourse and critical policy analysis are used to interrogate this report alongside interrelated texts, the socio-political context of production, the methods used to …
A critical analysis of Child and Adolescent Mental Health …
A combination of corpus analysis (Wmatrix, Rayson, 2008) and critical discourse analysis (CDA; Fairclough, 2001) was used to critically explore the development of mental health policy guiding
A Critical Analysis of Obamacare: Affordable Care or …
A Critical Analysis of Obamacare 1966 under President Lyndon B. Johnson was the most significant health care legislation in U.S. history (49). Despite this legislation, the U.S. health …
Critical Thinking: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Education …
The current study aimed to analyze the education policy documents to get an understanding of policy recommendations for developing critical thinking in secondary school students. The …
PROBLEM STRUCTURING IN PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS
problems plays a critical role in policy analysis, because the way a problem is structured governs the identification of solutions. Inadequate or faulty information may result in serious or even …
Hospital and Critical Access Hospital Policy Source
2024 PolicySource Hospitals and Critical Access Hospital Table of Contents Introduction to PolicySource™ ..... 1 Sample Policies and Procedures for Hospital and Criticial Access Hospital
Michelle˜D.˜Young Sarah˜Diem Editors Critical Approaches
Texas at Austin, critical policy analysis, with Michelle Young, one of this book’s editors. The other editor, Sarah Diem, was a student in that class, as were some of the contributors to this …
Critical Analysis of NEP: Benefits and Disadvantages - IJARSCT
Critical Analysis of NEP: Benefits and Disadvantages Asst. Prof. Sudhakar K. Mate Mahila Kala Mahavidyalaya,Umred, India sudhakarmate@gmail.com Abstract: The new education policy, …
Problematising Disability: A Critical Policy Analysis of the …
To cite this article: Chris Horsell (2020): Problematising Disability: A Critical Policy Analysis of the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme, Australian Social Work, DOI: 10.1080 ...
A critical analysis of and Adolescent Mental Health …
analysis and critical discourse analysis, we explore how childhood, mental health, and CAMHS are constituted in 15 policy documents, 9 pre‐2010, and 6 post 2010. We trace how these …
Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient …
Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment No. 43 (Prepared by the University of California at San Francisco–Stanford Evidence-based Practice …
1. Introducing critical policy discourse analysis - ResearchGate
Introducing critical policy discourse analysis 5 ist point of view) and two handbooks (Bevir and Rhodes, 2016 from the per-spective of interpretive approaches to political science; Fischer et …
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A CRITICAL ANALYSIS 06 6. POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS 08 7. BIBLIOGRAPHY 10 8. ANNEXURE 12 TABLE OF CONTENTS ... CRITICAL ANALYSIS To alleviate the barriers …
THE NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY OF BANGLADESH: …
country to counter cybercrimes are. Later on, a critical analysis of Bangladesh’s cybersecurity strategy is presented which aims towards finding out the spectrum of policy details and …
Depoliticizing adaptation: a critical analysis of EU climate …
written policy documents, I supplement the Logics Approach with the concept of assumptions, developed within Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough 2003).3 These represent the …
Critical Minerals Policy Tracker - .NET Framework
Dec 13, 2023 · Each policy has been categorised according to policy type. To support this categorisation, we have developed a nonexhaustive- list of 15 different types of policies that …
The Styles of Leadership: A Critical Review - IISTE
Public Policy and Administration Research www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-5731(Paper) ISSN 2225-0972(Online) Vol.5, No.3, 2015 87 The Styles of Leadership: A Critical Review Muhammad …
Critical realism, critical discourse analysis, and the …
politics, conservative ideology, and social policy analysis. He is currently working on a realist framework for the analysis of ontological and epistemological assumptions in political …
