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Over the past decade, the UK has experienced major policy and policy making change. This text examines this shifting political and policy landscape while also highlighting the features of UK politics that have endured.
Written by Paul Cairney and Sean Kippin, leading voices in UK public policy and politics, the book combines a focus on policy making theories and concepts with the exploration of key themes and events in UK politics, including:
• developing social policy in a post-pandemic world;
• governing post-Brexit; and
• the centrality of environmental policy.
The book equips students with a robust and up-to-date understanding of UK public policy and enables them to locate this within a broader theoretical framework.
Paul Cairney is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the University of Stirling.
Sean Kippin is Lecturer of Public Policy at the University of Stirling.
Preface: How To Analyse UK Policy Making
1. Introducing UK Politics and Policy Making
2. Perspectives on Policy and Policy Making
3. Explaining UK Politics and Policy Making
4. The Transformation of the UK State
5. What Does State Transformation Tell Us About the UK Policy Process?
6. Crises and Policy Making: The UK Response to COVID-19
7. Constitutional Policy: Brexit
8. Environmental Policy: Climate Change and Sustainability
9. Economic Policy: Austerity
10. Social Policy: Inequalities, Racism, and Protest
11. Foreign Policy: The War on Terror
12. Conclusion
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