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Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism

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Description for Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 11. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPF; JPQB; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.

We inhabit a perpetually accelerating and increasingly interconnected world, with new ideas, fads, and fashions moving at social-media speed. New policy ideas, especially “ideas that work,” are now able to find not only a worldwide audience but also transnational salience in remarkably short order.

Fast Policy is the first systematic treatment of this phenomenon, one that compares processes of policy development across two rapidly moving fields that emerged in the Global South and have quickly been adopted worldwide⎯conditional cash transfers (a social policy program that conditions payments on behavioral compliance) and participatory budgeting (a form of citizen-centric urban governance). Jamie ... Read more

Based on fieldwork conducted across six continents and in fifteen countries, Fast Policy is an essential resource in providing an extended theoretical discussion of policy mobility and in presenting a methodology for ethnographic research on global social policy.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
405g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816677313
SKU
V9780816677313
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About Jamie Peck
Jamie Peck is Canada Research Chair in urban and regional political economy and professor of geography at the University of British Columbia. He is the managing editor of Environment & Planning A.  Nik Theodore is professor of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago and associate dean for faculty affairs and research in the ... Read more

Reviews for Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism
"Drawing on theory and cases, the authors present slowly matured, insightful, and agenda-setting scholarship on the accelerated development, fast cross-border transfer, and quick implementation of welfare and labor market policies."—Bob Jessop, Lancaster University, UK "Fast Policy is a publication full of methodological innovations, a fruitful dialogue between in-depth case study research and theory formulation, and the valiant act of discussing ... Read more

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