Evidence, Policy and Wellbeing

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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

Ian Bache is Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Wellbeing in Public Policy (CWiPP) at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Ian Bache
• Edition: Springer, Berlin
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783030213756
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3021375-6
• Pages: 135
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 218 mm x 14 mm
• Poids: 320 g
• Illustrations: IX, 135 p. 1 illus.
• Thème: Wellbeing in Politics and Policy
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Politique et économie; Europa, C, Politik und Staat, Economic Policy, European Politics, Political Science, Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften, Entwicklungsstudien, Political Theory, Social Change, Politics & government, Political science & theory, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Political Science and International Studies, decision-making, Public Policy, Economic development, Comparative Politics, Development policy, Development Studies, Development and Social Change, Great Britain—Politics and government, British Politics, Politikwissenschaft und politische Theorie, public acquiescence, value acceptability