Description
Critically examine the public policy response, using Bacchi’s
questions:
How the social issue is constructed as a public policy problem?
What presuppositions or assumptions underlie this representation of the
problem?
What effects are or might be produced by this representation of the problem?
create a coherent structure and a narrative flow throughout.
Choose a specific policy document (e.g., white paper, policy brief, parliamentary act,
government reports, policy statements, parliamentary speeches). Policy documents
can be at local, national, international level; and produced by different subjects (e.g.,
governments, local authorities, organisations, international bodies)
Critically analyse, not just describe. Include a critical focus
on context; give sufficient background information; connect to broader contexts;
examine the construction of policies and how they represent and ‘make up’ people.
Examine the language and ‘discourse’ used in the document; draw on excerpts from
the policy document to explain how social issues are represented and addressed.
