'What will yours grow into?' Governmentality, governance, social science and the Child Trust Fund.

This article demonstrates a governmentality approach to policy, taking as an example the Child Trust Fund devised and implemented by the New Labour government in the United Kingdom (UK). I argue that in making sense of such a policy we should, as interpretive theories of governance tell us, pay atte...

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Publicado en:Policy & Politics Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 547 - 567
Autor principal: Finlayson, Alan
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Publicado: Policy Press Oct2011
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