Original scientific paper

Policy work as a reform project

Hal K. Colebatch ; School of Social Science and International Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Abstract

One aspect of the modernization of liberal government in the late 20th century was an increased attention to policy, both as a concept for interrogating government, and as the basis for organizing work within government, leading to the development of ‘policy analysis’ as a decision tool. This paper reviews the development of specialised
forms of ‘policy work’ in liberal western political systems in order to establish what can be learned by other sorts of polity, and in particular, the transitional states of Eastern Europe. It discusses the multiple and overlapping accounts of policy that are in use, and
the implications that these have for the nature of policy work. It points out that policy work takes place in multiple locations where a diversity of rationales may apply, and discusses the implications of this analysis for the place of policy work in the modernization
of government.

Keywords

policy work; policy analysis; policy workers; modernization of government

Hrčak ID:

35412

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/35412

Publication date:

31.3.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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