Rethinking policy and politics: reflections on contemporary debates in policy studies

Forty years of public management reform in UK central government: promises, promises ... -- Politcal anthropology and civil service reform: prospects and limits -- Just do it differently? Everyday making, Marxism and the struggle against neoliberalism -- Performing new worlds? Policy, politics and creative labour in hard times -- Weathering the perfect storm? Austerity and institutional resilience in local goverment -- Complex causality in improving underperforming schools: a complex adaptive systems approach -- Toward policy coordination: alternatives to hierarchy -- Governing local partnerships: does external steering help local agencies address wicked problems? -- All tools are informational now: how information and persuasion define the tools of government -- The politics of engaged scholarship: impact, relevance and imagination -- Reflections on contemporary debates in policy studies.