Governance and Social Policy
Governance and Social Policy
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治理和社会政策
作者：
M. Daly
治理现在被相当广泛地用作一种分析框架，尽管不是在社会政策中。本文阐述了治理的一些不同的根源和用途，并询问了社会政策的学科和研究的概念的效用。在追溯了这一概念的不同起源和当代用法，文章继续从他们的发展框架下，在英国新工党的公共政策的发展进行分析。然后，这是适用于考虑反过来公共领域，决策，政策执行和社会融合的性质。这导致了对治理的各种优势和劣势的讨论。前者包括它对政策制定的直接兴趣，它对权力和国家的关注，以及它可以连接不同层次的行动和分析。然而，从消极的一面来看，人们必须质疑，治理视角在多大程度上认为社会政策本身是有趣的，以及它对国家和政府的过度关注是否会导致社会政策和社会的剩余化。
Governance is now quite widely used as a frame of analysis, although not in social policy. This article elaborates some of the different roots and usages of governance and interrogates the utility of the concept for the discipline and study of social policy. Having traced the concept's diverse origins and contemporary usages, the article goes on to develop from them a framework for the analysis of developments in public policy in the UK under New Labour. This is then applied to consider in turn the nature of the public sphere, policy-making, policy implementation and societal incorporation. This leads to a discussion of the various strengths and weaknesses of governance. The former include its direct interest in policy-making, its focus on power and the state and the fact that it can connect different levels of action and analysis. On the negative side, though, one must question to what extent a governance perspective finds social policy interesting in its own right and whether its over-riding focus on state and government leads it to residualise both social policy and society.