Name: Evidence, Policy and Wellbeing
ISBN: 978-3-030-21376-3

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Ian Bache ⁰

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Explains the role of evidence in shaping the prospects for wellbeing in UK public policy
Informs the barriers literature on the use of evidence in policy
Argues that the way in which wellbeing is framed and communicated is crucial to its prospects in policy

Part of the book series: Wellbeing in Politics and Policy (WPP)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-ix

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Introduction
- Ian Bache
Pages 1-10
Evidence and Policy
- Ian Bache
Pages 11-28
Wellbeing
- Ian Bache
Pages 29-51
‘What Works’ for Wellbeing?
- Ian Bache
Pages 53-78
Evidence in the Policy Stream: The Multiple Streams Approach
- Ian Bache
Pages 79-99
Conclusion
- Ian Bache
Pages 101-122
Back Matter

Pages 123-135

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About this book

This book analyses the role of evidence in taking wellbeing from an issue that has government attention to one that leads to significant policy change. In doing so, it draws on contributions from political science, policy theory and literature specifically on the evidence and policy relationship. The book has three main aims: to understand the role of evidence in shaping the prospects for wellbeing in public policy; to inform the barriers literature on the use of evidence in policy; and, to inform the multiple streams approach (MSA) to agenda-setting. While the book focuses on developments at UK government level, a number of the findings and arguments presented here have wider significance, both in relation to wellbeing developments elsewhere and to the theoretical literatures on agenda-setting and evidence use. The book draws on insights from interviews with policy-makers and stakeholders that were undertaken as part of the work of the Community Wellbeing Evidence Programme of the What Works Centre for Wellbeing.

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University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Ian Bache

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Ian Bache is Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Wellbeing in Public Policy (CWiPP) at the University of Sheffield, UK.

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Book Title: Evidence, Policy and Wellbeing
Authors: Ian Bache
Series Title: Wellbeing in Politics and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21376-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21375-6Published: 10 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-21376-3Published: 22 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2629-2394
Series E-ISSN: 2629-2408
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 135
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, British Politics, Development Policy, Political Theory, Development and Social Change, Comparative Politics

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Evidence and Policy

Wellbeing

‘What Works’ for Wellbeing?

Evidence in the Policy Stream: The Multiple Streams Approach

Conclusion

Back Matter

About this book

Keywords

Authors and Affiliations

University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

About the author

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