Key Themes and Concepts

Abstract

The Introduction articulates how a poststructural approach to poliry analysis provides an important vehicle for questioning how governing takes place. It begins by sketching the broad parameters of a posrstrucrural approach as a form of critical anaþis that allows a refreshing skepticism toward the firll range of things commonly associated with policy: policy itself, the knowledges that support policy and policy proposals, as well as conventional forms ofpoliry analysis. The imptication of this form of critical analysis for policy work is explained-how a posrsrructural approach encourages policy workers to reflect on their own role in governing and to engage in the productive and political practices of interrogating, theoriz- ing, and resisting. The Introduction also sets out the structure of the book.