Document Type
Article
Rights
This item is available under a Creative Commons License for non-commercial use only
Disciplines
Education, general, including:, Political science, Social sciences
Abstract
This paper utilises Policy Design Theory to evaluate policy tool design and selection in Ireland in order to look beyond policy goals and rhetoric to the meanings and assumptions within policy design. A review of the Community Childcare Subvention Scheme (CCSS) reveals it to be an ‘incentive’ tool that is structured around a negative social construction of the target populations as ‘dependants’ with little capacity to solve their own problems. While immediate policy objectives are met through the design of the CCSS, if viewed in a wider context of overall national policy objectives a range of negative side-effects are evident amongst all policy target groups.
Recommended Citation
O'Donoghue-Hynes, B., Hayes, N.: An Evaluation of the Community Childcare Subvention Scheme using Policy Design Theory. An Leanbh Óg. 2011.
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Publication Details
An Leanbh Óg is the Annual Peer Reviewed Journal of OMEP Ireland