Table of Contents

1: Introducing a 'what's the problem represented to be?' approach to policy analysis 2: Rethinking policy analysis: Theory and politics 3: Welfare, 'youth' and unemployment 4: 'Dangerous' consumptions: Drugs/alcohol and gambling policy 5: Crime and justice 6: Health, wellbeing and the social determinants of health 7: Population, immigration, citizenship: 'Securing' a place in the world 8: The limits of equality: Anti-discrimination and 'special measures' 9: The ambivalence of education: HECS and lifelong learning 10: 'Knowledge production' in the 'information society': Media and research policy

About the Author

Carol Bacchi is Professor in Politics at the University of Adelaide. Her publications include Same Difference: Feminism and Sexual Difference, The Politics of Affirmative Action: 'Women', Equality and Category Politics, and Women, Policy and Politics: The Construction of Policy Problems.