{"product_id":"how-policy-happens-loic-menzies-9781032230207","title":"How Policy Happens: Understanding the Decisions That Shape Our Education Systems","description":"\u003cp\u003eStop treating education like a political football! Think long term! Follow the evidence!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalls like these echo across society. Yet governments continue to swerve, U-turn, and spit decisions out as if at random. Policy-making, therefore, remains an impenetrable black box to those who live with the consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book opens up that black box. It shows how policy really gets made - not in tidy theories or ministerial press lines, but in time-pressured collisions between convictions, evidence, and conflicting demands. Each chapter takes a real episode from the last four decades of education reform - from selective schools and academisation to curriculum and funding - and uses it to uncover one of the funnels or forces that push policy down a particular track.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining anecdotes from the corridors of power with academic theory and extensive interviews with senior policy-makers and former ministers, this book offers an engaging but rigorous account of how ideas become decisions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow Policy Happens: Understanding the Decisions That Shape Our Education System\u003c\/em\u003e will be an eye-opening read for anyone interested in how government's cogs turn, and is an essential guide for professionals working in the education and policy sectors, including teachers, civil servants, politicians, and academics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Loic Menzies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032230207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032230207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.37d","brand":"Loic Menzies","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997243158783,"sku":"9781032230207","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-policy-happens-loic-menzies-9781032230207","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}