Preface | p. 7 |
Introduction | |
Understanding Policy Work | p. 11 |
Accounts of Policy Work | |
Giving Accounts of Policy Work | p. 31 |
Academic Accounts of Policy Experience | p. 45 |
Constructing Meaning through Policy Work | |
New Life for Old Buildings: Mediating between Different Meanings | p. 75 |
Policy Workers Tinkering with Uncertainty: Dutch Econometric Policy Advice in Action | p. 91 |
Policy Work as Mediation | |
Managing the Problematic in Policy Work | p. 115 |
Evaluation as Policy Work: Puzzling and Powering in a Dutch Program for Sustainable Development | p. 131 |
Policy Work beyond the Nation-State | |
Policy Work between National and International Contexts: Maintaining Ongoing Collaboration | p. 159 |
Flying Blind in Brussels: How National Officials Do European Business without Political Sreering | p. 171 |
Linking Systemic and Experiential Knowledge | |
Is Evidence-Based Policy Making Really Possible? Reflections for Policymakers and Academics on Making Use of Research in the Work of Policy | p. 195 |
Locating the Work of Policy | p. 211 |
Conclusion | |
The Lessons for Policy Work | p. 227 |
About the Authors | p. 247 |
Index of Names | p. 251 |
Index of Subjects | p. 257 |
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