Interpreting governance, high politics and public policy : essays commemorating interpreting British governance / edited by Nick Turnbull.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Governance and metagovernance. Re-centring the British political tradition: explaining contingency in New Labour's and the Coalition's governance statecraft / Patrick Diamond, David Richards, and Martin Smith -- Critical encounters with decentred theory: tradition, metagovernance and Parrhēsia as storytelling / Paul Fawcett -- Interpreting Hillsborough / Andrew Taylor -- High politics and political history. Executive governance: an interpretive analysis / R. A. W. Rhodes -- Political ideas and 'real' politics / David Craig -- The meanings of progressive politics: interpretivism and its limits / Emily Robinson Policymaking. Extending interpretivism: articulating the practice dimension in Bevir and Rhodes's differentiated policy model / Hendrik Wagenaar -- The inadequacy on interpretivism: explaining Britain's failure to 'number the people' / Perri 6 and Christine Bellamy -- Interpretivism and public policy research / Helen Sullivan -- Conclusion. Interpreting British governance: ten years on / Mark Bevir and R. A. W. Rhodes.