Abstract
Policy work labels new distinct stream of scholarship in public policy that tries to capture transformations of policy analysis' practice. Due to shifts in meaning and ambiguity of this new umbrella term there is a question of understanding to this new stream of research.
The article argues it is possible by closer examination of different complementary policy work research approaches within this stream. They influence not only perception of public policy but also discourse on their practice.
Its aim is to get acquainted with the issue of policy work through two contemporary main approaches. After short contextualization in development of policy work research there are presented, in comparative perspective, short characteristics, main concepts, conceptual embeddings, and relation to policy analysis of the policy work approach (Colebatch), the policy analytical capacity approach (Howlett).
At the end there is clear summary of essential findings and sketched delimitation of the policy work as a stream of research.