REALISING POLICY: The who and how of policy production

Introduction I appreciate definitions of ‘policy’ as the ‘authoritative allocation of values’ (Easton 1953; Anderson 1979), not least because they draw attention to the who and the how of policy production. Prunty has argued similarly, that

The authoritative allocation of values draws our attention to the centrality of power and control in the concept of policy, and requires us to consider not only whose values are represented in policy, but also how these values have become institutionalised.