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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface to the 1981 Publication -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- PART I: CONTROL AND POWER IN CENTRAL-LOCAL GOVERNMENT RELATIONS -- 1 Introduction -- The context of intergovernmental relations: some theoretical issues -- Summary of Part I -- 2 Some Myths in Central-Local Relations -- The 'conventional wisdom' -- The 'conventional critique' -- The 'conventional critique' revisited -- Some recent developments -- The 'forgotten dimensions' of central-local relations -- Conclusions: the rationality of ambiguous confusion? -- 3 Interorganizational Analysis -- Introduction -- The nature of the environment -- The unit of analysis -- Organizational goals -- Power and exchange -- Consequences -- Conclusions -- 4 Intergovernmental Relations -- Introduction -- From federalism to intergovernmental relations -- Bargaining, diplomacy and 'topocrats' -- Conclusions -- 5 A Framework for Analysis -- Introduction -- Figure: the analysis of interactions -- Ground: the distribution of power, rules, interests and values -- Concluding discussion: the rationality of ambiguous confusion -- PART II: FROM INSTITUTIONS, TO POLICY, TO INDIVIDUALS -- 6 'Power-Dependence' Theories of Central-Local Relations: a Critical Assessment -- Introduction -- A critical appraisal -- Towards a theoretical reconstruction -- Conclusions: what has been achieved? -- 7 New Directions in the Study of Policy Networks -- Introduction -- A typology of policy networks -- Key issues -- Conclusions: new directions -- 8 Analysing Networks: from Typologies of Institutions to Narratives of Beliefs -- Introduction -- Developments in the study of policy networks -- Deconstructing networks -- Reconstructing networks -- Conclusions -- References -- Subject Index -- Also by R.A.W. Rhodes

This book examine polices through the eyes of the practitioners, both top-down and bottom-up; it decentres policies and policymaking. To decentre is to unpack practices as the contingent beliefs and actions of individuals. Decentred analysis produces detailed studies of people's beliefs and practices. It challenges the idea that inexorable or impersonal forces drive politics, focusing instead on the relevant meanings, the beliefs and preferences of the people involved. The book presents ten case studies, covering penal policy, zero-carbon homes, parliamentary scrutiny, children's rights, obesity, pension reform, public service reform, evidence-based policing, and local economic knowledge. It introduces a different angle of vision on the policy process; it looks at it through the eyes of individual actors, not institutions. In other words, it looks at policies from the other end of the telescope. It concludes there is much to learn from a decentred approach. It delivers edification because it offers a novel alliance of interpretive theory with an ethnographic toolkit to explore policy and policymaking from the bottom-up. Written by members of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Southampton, with their collaborators at other universities, the book's decentred approach provides an alternative to the dominant evidence-based policy nostrums of the day. R.A.W. Rhodes is Professor of Government at the University of Southampton, UK. Previously, he was the Director of the UK Economic and Social Research Council's 'Whitehall Programme' (1994-1999); Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University (2006-11); and Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (2007-8). In 2015, the ECPR awarded him its biennial Lifetime Achievement Award for his 'outstanding contribution to all areas of political science, and the exceptional impact of his work'.--

This volume collects the main articles written by Rhodes on policy networks and governance between 1990 and 2005. The introductory section provides a short biography of the author's journey, Part I focuses on policy networks, and Part II focuses on governance. The conclusion provides critical commentary, both replying to critics and reflecting on theoretical developments since publication.

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