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Providing an analytical framework through illustrations of real-world practices, this novel and important volume investigates policy analysis in the context of high inequalities in Asia from critical and pragmatic perspectives.
Through reflective review, cases, and lessons, this book provides discussions and develops a context-sensitive analytical framework: mapping spaces of deliberation from formal to semi-formal and informal; understanding narratives that travel between policy actors; and staying conscious of inequalities in knowledge and socio-political status. With particular focus on the Asian context, this book addresses intellectual and practical discussions in public policy, political science, public administration, and Asian studies. Chapters provide several illustrations and case studies that examine inclusive participation and its transformative potential in policy analysis in Asian settings. Ultimately, this book argues that despite inequalities and constrained possibilities, policy analysis is still able to affect what is politically and socially imaginable, and to be genuinely sensitive to contextual realities. Given that high inequality is a global phenomenon, the conclusions and findings will be widely applicable.
Offering in-depth research and discussion on doing policy analysis in Asia, the book will be relevant to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of policy, political science, public administration, and Asian studies more broadly. Graduate students and policymakers may also find this book of use.
Contents
1. Introduction: Policy Analysis in the Asian Context
2. High Inequalities and the Need for Context-sensitive Analytical Framework
3. Narratives and Deliberative Spaces in Framing Policy Alternatives: What can we Learn from an Asian Policy Style?
4. Policy Analysis and the Asian Contextual Backdrop: Youth in High Inequalities and Uncertain Crises
5. Deliberative Spaces and Power Sensitivity in Policy Analysis: Responding to Vulnerabilities and Including Youth by a Policy Laboratory
6. Harnessing Narrative Politics in Policy Analysis through Deliberative Design: Empowering Youth for the Future by a Policy Think Tank
7. From Inclusive Prototyping to Steering Emancipatory Policy Alternatives: Towards a Critical Pragmatist Policy Laboratory
8. Afterword: Critical and Pragmatic Reflections
