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Bottom‐up models also rejected the view that policy design was the exclusive prerogative of the legislative process. Lipsky argued that street‐level actions effectively determined important features of the policy.

Policy Analysis as Orgnaisational Analysis

Barry L. Friedman

Could the social perceptions of risk and the political dynamics of the risk society be or become one central axis of social conflict and identity beyond status or class? Or does the risk society, on the contrary, lack political counteraction because of individualization?

Risk Society

Ulrich Beck

The emergence of the landless working class added a final piece to the great transformation of England’s economy: they became the world’s first mass consumer population, for they depended on markets for even the most basic goods necessary for survival: clothes, food, housing, and so on. It was these three forces – enclosure, mass displacement of peasants and the creation of a consumer market – that provided the internal conditions for the Industrial Revolution. The external conditions, as we have seen, had to do with the colonisation of the Americas and the slave trade.

The Divide

Jason Hickel

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