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POLICY ANALYSIS
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Policy analysis is less a method than an approach to research. It is relevant to interdisciplinary research in law because it deals with similar practical issues. The practical purpose of research is discussed at Purposes, where there is reference to some key readings from the field of policy analysis.
Christopher Enright deals with the formal relations between law and policy in chapter 12 of Studying Law. You may also consider the more informal and political relations discussed by Stephen Bottomley and Stephen Parker in chapter 8 ('Access to Law Making') of their text book Law in Context (2nd ed. Sydney: Federation Press, 1994).
Marie Danziger relates questions of policy to interpretation and the political context of research in her article 'Policy Analysis Postmodernized'.
Enright, Christopher. Studying Law. 5th ed. Sydney: Federation Press, 1995. Chapter 12.
The following books on policy analysis are also worth reading:
Dunn, William N. Public Policy Analysis. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994.
Lindblom, C. E. Inquiry and Change: The Troubled Attempt to Understand and Change Society. New Haven, CT: Yale UP with Russell Sage, 1990.
Rein, Martin. From Policy to Practice. London: Macmillan, 1983.
Wildavsky, Aaron. Speaking Truth to Power: the art and craft of policy analysis. 2nd ed. New Brunswick, USA: Transaction Books, 1987.
* Articles by Marie Danziger and William Dunn are available on full text databases to which the University of Wollongong Library subscribes (Proquest 5000). If you need assistance to retrieve articles from databases, please see staff at the Information Desk in the Library or phone (02) 4221 3548.
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With thanks for the progress made so far to Martin Payne (University of Sydney), Carla Mooney and Diane Allen.