Overview
Providing an analytical framework through illustrations of real-world practices, this novel and important volume investigates policy analysis in the context of high inequalities in Asia from critical and pragmatic perspectives. Through reflective review, cases, and lessons, the book provides discussions and develops a context-sensitive analytical framework: mapping spaces of deliberation from formal to semi-formal and informal; understanding narratives that travel between policy actors; and staying conscious of inequalities in knowledge and socio-political status. With particular focus on the Asian context, the book addresses intellectual and practical discussions in public policy, political science, public administration, and Asian studies. Chapters provide several illustrations and case studies that examine inclusive participation and its transformative potential in policy analysis in Asian settings. Ultimately, the book argues that despite inequalities and constrained possibilities, policy analysis is still able to affect what is politically and socially imaginable, and to be genuinely sensitive to contextual realities. Given high inequality is a global phenomenon, the conclusions and findings will be widely applicable. Offering in-depth research and discussion on doing policy analysis in Asia, the book will be relevant to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of policy, political science, public administration, and Asian studies more broadly. Graduate students and policymakers may also find the book of use.
Full Product Details
Author: Noe John Sacramento ,
Piyapong Boossabong ,
Pobsook Chamchong
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9781032976624
ISBN 10: 1032976624
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 16 April 2026
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Reviews
""This book represents a welcome and much needed addition to the public policy literature. Distinguishing deliberative settings and apt responses, the authors extend interpretive, argumentative, and critical pragmatic approaches to policy analysis from epistemological critiques to imagine fresh process designs in institutional contexts of hierarchy and inequality."" -- John Forester, Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University ""This book is an important contribution to Public Policy in Asia. Sacramento, Boossabong, and Chamchong propose an 'epistemic emancipation' that integrates Asian context-sensitivity within highly unequal societies. By exploring how actors, narratives, and deliberative spaces shape policy, they offer a compelling reflection on critical pragmatism and the centrality of the pragmatic perspective in understanding the policy process in Asia."" -- Philippe Zittoun, Research Professor of Political Science, University of Lyon & General Secretary, International Public Policy Association ""This book makes an important intervention in the literature on policy studies in Asia. Adeptly employing a critical policy studies approach, it questions established norms of power and shows how deliberative policy designs can articulate the voices of newly empowered young people in Asian nations. For public policy scholars, this work is enlightening by elaborating how different cultural norms inform policy engagements outside the Western liberal-democratic mainstream."" -- Nick Turnbull, Professor of Rhetoric and Public Policy, University of Manchester
Author Information
Noe John Sacramento is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the University of the Philippines (UP) Cebu. He is also a nonresident adjunct faculty at the School of Public Policy, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. John has done research on deliberative policy analysis, the technical and participatory nexus in smart city planning, informality, dramaturgy, and emotionality in deliberation, and the critical pragmatist logic in policy analysis in high inequalities. He is also interested in the developments of critical policy studies in Asia, the interpretive and constructivist turn in public policy across the region, and how policy knowledge is contested and challenged in the face of power. Piyapong Boossabong is Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. He also serves as an editor of the Critical Policy Studies journal. His research interests include deliberative approaches, interpretive policy analysis in practice, and inclusive policy processes in weak democratic systems. His work focuses particularly on the politics of empirical evidence, ideological commitments, contextual experiences (local or situated knowledge), normative assumptions, and emotional expressions in public policy and governance. Pobsook Chamchong is Assistant professor and Deputy Director at the School of Public Policy, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. Her research focuses on urban governance, ecosystem approaches to policy innovation, collaborative governance, inclusive policy design, policy translation, and critical foresight for policy transformation.
