Policy Making Britain Introduction (62 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Policy Making in Britain: An Introduction This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Policy Making in Britain: An Introduction This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. …

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. …

paperback. Condition: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

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Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Softcover. Condition: Très bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Petite(s) trace(s) de pliure sur la couverture. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Salissures sur la tranche. Edition 1995. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Slightly creased cover. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Stains on the edge. Edition 1995. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.…

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:9781849208482.…

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Condition: New.

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Some books burst into your life promising revolution, revelation, and perhaps a new way of understanding the modern world. Others arrive with the words Policy Making in Britain ? An Introduction on the cover, which is about as flamboyant as a municipal filing cabinet and therefore, in its own deeply British way, instantly reassuring. Written by Peter Dorey and published by Sage in 2014 , this is exactly the sort of book that sounds as though it ought to be dry, worthy, and faintly punishing, only to turn out to be rather more interesting than many louder volumes on public life. Because British policy making, when you strip away the calm language and respectable committee paperwork, is really a never-ending saga of ministers, civil servants, pressure groups, party politics, competing interests, strategic compromises, unintended consequences, and the occasional heroic attempt to make the machinery of government behave itself for five full minutes. Dorey?s great trick is to take a subject that might initially suggest endless grey corridors and transform it into something recognisably alive. Policy making is not just ?how laws happen? or ?how governments decide things.? It is the study of how ideas are born, dressed up, sent through consultations, mauled by politics, revised by reality, and eventually released into the wild where they proceed to behave in ways nobody fully predicted. In other words, it is the story of Britain attempting to run itself through a combination of principle, process, compromise, and the ancient national tradition of muddling through with impressive vocabulary. This book is ideal for students, politics enthusiasts, policy nerds, reluctant sociology survivors, and anyone who has ever read a news headline and wondered, ?Yes, but who on earth actually decided this?? It opens the lid on the mechanisms behind public decisions and shows that policy is rarely the product of a single brilliant mind in a ministerial office. More often it emerges from a fog of institutions, ideologies, lobbying, media pressure, budget limits, party calculations, and the awkward fact that real life has a habit of refusing to fit neatly into white papers. There is also something wonderfully ironic about British policy making as a subject. On paper it sounds orderly, procedural, almost elegant. In practice it is an endlessly fascinating contest between what governments intend, what they announce, what they can afford, what departments can deliver, and what the public will tolerate before everyone starts writing cross letters to the newspapers. Dorey, wisely, understands that policy is not just a technical function. It is a living political process full of conflict, persuasion, institutional habits, and the occasional beautifully worded fudge. And because this is an introduction , it has that rare and valuable quality of actually trying to introduce. It is there to explain, not intimidate. It does not assume you have already spent twelve years lurking in Westminster cloakrooms absorbing procedural folklore. Instead it helps make sense of the structures, the actors, the theories, and the practical realities of governance in Britain, which is helpful, because British governance has long depended on the public not looking too closely at how the sausage is consensually, strategically, and partially accountably made. This particular copy is listed in Good condition but with a fold in the cover , and honestly that feels almost thematically appropriate. A book about British policy making that bears a visible crease is not damaged so much as authenticated. It has, in its own modest physical form, experienced a mild structural complication while remaining perfectly serviceable, which is more or less the biography of the British state since about 1688. Internally sound, externally a bit rumpled, still carrying on. Offered by Crappy Old Books , this Fair copy is therefore not merely a second-hand textbook. It is a slightly battle-worn guide to the noble, confusing, compromise-laden business of governing a country through meetings, memos, doctrines, consultations, and carefully calibrated public statements. It will sit on your shelf looking serious and useful, which it is, but it may also occasionally provoke the comforting thought that if policy making is this complicated for the people in charge, perhaps your own administrative difficulties are not entirely a personal failing. In short, Policy Making in Britain is a smart, accessible, and quietly revealing introduction to the machinery behind British public decisions. It explains how power, process, and politics interact, while gently reminding the reader that government is never quite as simple, rational, or tidy as official documents would like us to believe. A very solid book for anyone interested in politics, public administration, or the strange national art of trying to change the country one briefing paper at a time.…

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.