Understanding Social Policy: Problem Representation and Effects

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Introduction
Bacchi is a fellow postdoctoral in public service of a research group in University of New
south Wales. In the research she focuses complexities in translating policies into practice. In her
research, she crosses the boundaries in policy analysis, gender studies and feminist, political
science, intuitionalist theory, international relations and sociology. In 1991 she introduced post
structuralism and also social constructionism in policy studies basing her studies with her own
book entitled Women, Policy and Politics which presented the construction of policy problems.
Bacchi challenges all forms of expertise and the knowledge and the studies are inherently in a
political form (Bacchi, 2016). Her approach came from feminist approach and understanding
according to issues that affect women.
Question 1: What’s the problem represented to be in the specific policy cashless debit card?
The problem represented to be in specific policy in cashless debit card is drug abuse and
gamblers (Lancaster, 2015).
Question 2: What deep-seated presuppositions or assumptions (conceptual logics) underlie this
representation of the “problem”.
The deep seated and presuppositions or assumptions under this approach are ontological
and Epistemological. The epistemological assumption raises so many questions such as
relationship between what’s is known and the knower, how the reality can be known, the
characteristics and guiding principles which can be processed by knowing the finding
achievements and also the possibilities that are shared by others on the same thing (Hutchinson,
2010). These questions help in identifying the deep seated values of the culture. Social science

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development is not progressive thing in replacement of the other sense. This epistemological
theory is a subject known for proposing pure speculates when attempting the approach. The
characteristics of people those who research in their actions and expressions help in final report
production in this research.
Ontological assumptions are mostly used in study of being where it determines the world
investigation in the nature of existence in reality structure (Bacchi, 2016). These assumptions
answer questions like what is reality nature and what can be known is there? The researchers
assume that world existence caused a lot of effect. The researchers assume that some realities
affect performance in listening in almost 160 businesses. The reality in ontological assumptions
is that they view the casual reality.
Question 3: How has this representation of the “problem” come about?
This contingent practices consideration and processes by which the problem
understandings have emerged. This question reflects the specific processes and practices that
under particular space and over time have mostly contributed to identified representation of the
problem development. Also this understands how the problem is shaped over time and the
assumption in current dominance (Hutchinson, 2010). It is mostly concerned with social context
and historical knowledge which is produced and the power related in enabling particular gain
status knowledge. The policy genealogy identification involves emerging the tracking ways in
thinking and understanding of discourses as truth forms.
In WPR application has an effect on destabilizing contemporary problem representations
in questions taken in granted status and the contesting claims revealing in different discourses in