This book focuses on two key ways to improve the literature surrounding policy analysis. Firstly, it explores the implications of new developments in policy process research, on the role of psychology in communication and the multi-centric nature of policymaking.

Part I State of the Art Policy Analysis Texts.- 1 Introduction: New Policy Analysis for the Real World.- 2 What Is the Classic Five-Step Model of How to Do Policy Analysis?.- 3 What Has Changed, and Why Do We Need New Policy Analysis?.- 4 What Insights from Policy Process Research Do Policy Analysts Need to Know?.- 5 What Insights from Wider Studies of Power, Knowledge, Politics, and Policy Do Policy Analysts Need to Consider?.- 6 How Have How to Do Policy Analysis Texts Incorporated These Insights So Far?.- Part II Challenging Themes in Policy Analysis.- 7 Comparing What You Need as a Policy Analyst with Policymaking Reality.- 8 Who Should Be Involved in the Process of Policy Analysis?.- 9 What Is Your Role as a Policy Analyst?.- 10 How to Be a Policy Entrepreneur.- 11 Policy Analysis as Systems Thinking.- 12 How Much Impact Can You Expect from Your Analysis?.- 13 Conclusion: Combining Insights on Policy Analysis.

This book generates state-of-the-art advice on how to do policy analysis. It combines a review of policy analysis texts, new developments in psychology and policymaking, and more critical studies of the politics of evidence use. It helps readers reflect on the practices appropriate to a new policy analysis profession. Most ‘art and craft’ advice on policy analysis already states that it is a political act, not simply a technical and ‘evidence based’ process. This book goes two steps further. First, it highlights the politics of evidence production and ethical ways to combine many forms of policy-relevant knowledge. Second, it describes the supply of analysis to policymakers who must ignore almost all information, and operate in a policymaking environment over which they have limited knowledge and minimal control. It shows that policy analysis will be of limited value unless analysts incorporate these factors into their advice.    Paul Cairney isProfessor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling, UK.   

Provides state-of-the-art advice on how to do policy analysis Improves descriptive policy analysis insights by drawing on new developments in psychology and policy process theories Improves prescriptive policy analysis by drawing on the politics of evidence production and use

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