Informality in policymaking : weaving the threads of everyday policy work

This book contains an Open Access chapter. Public policy actors spend considerable time writing policy, advising politicians, eliciting stakeholder views on policy concerns, and implementing initiatives. Yet, they also 'hang out' chatting at coffee machines, discuss developments in the hal...

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Other Authors Garner-Knapp, Lindsey (Editor), Mason, Joanna (Editor), Mulherin, Tamara (Editor), Visser, E. Lianne (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024.
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ISBN9781837972821
DOI10.1108/9781837972807
Physical Description1 online resource (224 pages)

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505 0 |a Foreword / Richard Freeman Introduction. From Informality and Formality to In|formality: Troubling Absolutism in Policymaking / Joanna Mason, E. Lianne Visser, Lindsey Garner-Knapp, and Tamara Mulherin Setting the Stage of Informality -- Chapter 1. "knowing" the system: Public administration and informality during covid-19 / Claire Bynner -- Chapter 2. The informal work of policy maintenance: Making space for local knowledge in Indian rural electricity governance / Meera Sudhakar Informal Practices and Ethnomethodology -- Chapter 3. Mastering informality in diplomacy / Kristin Anabel Eggeling and Larissa Versloot -- Chapter 4. Bureaucratic hustling and knowledge shuffling - informality within Swiss public administration / Lisa Marie Borrelli -- Chapter 5. Catching up with catching up: Collaborative policy work, in|formality and connective talk / E. Lianne Visser Methods to Study Informality -- Chapter 6. Visualising informal repair: Exploring photographic 'routines' in ethnographic methodology / Neha Mungekar OPEN ACCESS -- Chapter 7. Traceless transitions: Studying the role of drawings and gestures in construction project meetings / Evelijn Martinius -- Chapter 8. Vehicles of in|formality - the role of the car as a mobile space of policy and relational work / Tamara Mulherin Concluding Thoughts -- Chapter 9. Tracing threads of in/visibilities: The knotty mattering of policymaking / Lindsey Garner-Knapp and Joanna Mason -- Chapter 10. Dénouement: Why the how comes to matter / Tamara Mulherin and Lindsey Garner-Knapp Afterword -- Chapter 11. Afterword: Reflecting on in|formality / Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow. 
520 |a This book contains an Open Access chapter. Public policy actors spend considerable time writing policy, advising politicians, eliciting stakeholder views on policy concerns, and implementing initiatives. Yet, they also 'hang out' chatting at coffee machines, discuss developments in the hallway walking from one meeting to another, or wander outside to carparks for a quick word and to avoid prying eyes. Rather than interrogating the rules and procedures which govern how policies are made, this volume asks readers to begin with the informal as a concept and extend this to what people do, how they relate to each other, and how this matters. Emerging from a desire to enquire into the lived experience of policy professionals, and to conceptualise afresh the informal in the making of public policy, Informality in Policymaking explores how informality manifests in different contexts, spaces, places, and policy arenas, and the implications of this. Including nine empirical chapters, this volume presents studies from around the world and across policy domains spanning the rural and urban, and the local to the supranational. The chapters employ interdisciplinary approaches and integrate creative elements, such as drawings of hand gestures and fieldwork photographs, in conjunction with ethnographic 'thick descriptions'. In unveiling the realities of how policy is made, this deeply meaningful and thoughtfully constructed collection argues that the formal is only part of the story of policymaking, and thus only part of the solutions it seeks to create. Informality in Policymaking will be of interest to researchers and policymakers alike. 
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