Defining Policy Analysis A Journey That Never Ends

Author : Beryl A. Radin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108934558

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Defining Policy Analysis: A Journey that Never Ends by Beryl A. Radin Pdf

For much of its life, the field of policy analysis has lived with a wide range of definitions of its goals, work and significance in the society. This Element seeks to sort out these differences by describing the issues, players and developments that have played a role over the life of this field. As a result of the relationships that have developed an environment has emerged where both academics and practitioners who self identify as 'policy analysts' are not always recognized as such by others who use that same label. This Element explores the reasons why this conflictual situation has developed and whether the current status is a major departure from the past. While these developments may not be new or found only in policy analysis, they do have an impact on the status of the academics as well as the practitioners in the field.

Author : Beryl A. Radin
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798889105459

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Policy Framing Issues in the World of COVID-19 by Beryl A. Radin Pdf

This book is a somewhat unusual depiction of a difficult policy issue. It transcends almost all boundaries because of its constant change and its movement across many different participants. It was found attached to a range of policy topics, methodologies and approaches. Some of these were familiar while others seemed new. Interest in this topic was exhibited across the globe and did not appear to be delivered along with a narrow political agenda. While researchers tended to re-examine classic public policy literatures (such as those dealing with implementation, federalism and budgeting) they did so by raising unusual issues. But this was not typical since analysts are likely to emphasize similarities rather than differences in settings.

Author : Kris Hartley,Glen David Kuecker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009234450

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Disrupted Governance by Kris Hartley,Glen David Kuecker Pdf

This Element explores the uncertain future of public policy practice and scholarship in an age of radical disruption. Building on foundational ideas in policy sciences, we argue that an anachronistic instrumental rationalism underlies contemporary policy logic and limits efforts to understand new policy challenges. We consider whether the policy sciences framework can be reframed to facilitate deeper understandings of this anachronistic epistemic, in anticipation of a research agenda about epistemic destabilization and contestation. The Element applies this theoretical provocation to environmental policy and sustainability, issues about which policymaking proceeds amid unpredictable contexts and rising sociopolitical turbulence that portend a liminal state in the transition from one way of thinking to another. The Element concludes by contemplating the fate of policy's epistemic instability, anticipating what policy understandings will emerge in a new system, and questioning the degree to which either presages a seismic shift in the relationship between policy and society.

Author : Daniel Béland,Andrea Louise Campbell,R. Kent Weaver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108945417

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Policy Feedback by Daniel Béland,Andrea Louise Campbell,R. Kent Weaver Pdf

Although the idea that existing policies can have major effects on politics and policy development is hardly new, the last three decades witnessed a major expansion of policy feedback scholarship, which focuses on the mechanisms through which existing policies shape politics and policy development. Starting with a discussion of the origins of the concept of policy feedback, this element explores early and more recent contributions of the policy feedback literature to clarify the meaning of this concept and its contribution to both political science and policy studies. After exploring the rapidly expanding scholarship on policy feedback and mass politics, this element also puts forward new research agendas that stress several ways forward, including the need to explain both institutional and policy continuity and change. Finally, the element discusses the practical implications of policy feedback research through a discussion of its potential impact on policy design. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Fabrizio Gilardi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108899772

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Digital Technology, Politics, and Policy-Making by Fabrizio Gilardi Pdf

This element shows, based on a review of the literature, how digital technology has affected liberal democracies with a focus on three key aspects of democratic politics: political communication, political participation, and policy-making. The impact of digital technology permeates the entire political process, affecting the flow of information among citizen and political actors, the connection between the mass public and political elites, and the development of policy responses to societal problems. This element discusses how digital technology has shaped these different domains, identifies areas of research consensus as well as unresolved questions, and argues that a key perspective involves issue definition, that is, how the nature of the problems raised by digital technology is subject to political contestation.

Author : Alastair Stark,Sophie Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009286862

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Public Inquiries and Policy Design by Alastair Stark,Sophie Yates Pdf

Public inquiries regularly produce outcomes of importance to policy design. However, the policy design literature has largely ignored the many important ways that public inquiries can act as policy design tools, meaning the functions that inquiries can offer the policy designer are not properly understood. This Element addresses this gap in two ways. First, it presents a theoretical discussion, underpinned by international empirical illustrations, to explain how inquiries perform policy design roles and can be classified as procedural policy tools. It focuses on four inquiry functions - catalytic, learning, processual, and legitimation. Second, it addresses the challenge of designing inquiries that have the policy-facing capacities required to make them effective. It introduces plurality as a key variable influencing effectiveness, demonstrating its relevance to internal inquiry operations, the external inquiry environment, and policy tool selection. Thus, it combines conceptual and practical insights to speak to academic and practice orientated audiences.

Author : Raul P. Lejano,Wing Shan Kan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009122177

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Relationality by Raul P. Lejano,Wing Shan Kan Pdf

This Element argues that relational policy analysis can provide deeper insights into the career of any policy and the dynamics of any policy situation. This task is all the more difficult as the relational often operates unseen in the backstages of a policy arena. Another issue is the potentially unbounded scope of a relational analysis. But these challenges should not dissuade policy scholars from beginning to address the theme of relationality in public policy. This Element sketches a conceptual framework for the study of relationality and illustrates some of the promise of relational analysis using an extended case study. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Yannis Papadopoulos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108975520

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Understanding Accountability in Democratic Governance by Yannis Papadopoulos Pdf

This Element comprehensively scrutinizes the key issue of the accountability of policy-makers in democratic governance. The electoral punishment of the incumbents, parliamentary control of the government, and sanctions in the case of administrative misconduct or negligence are the most visible manifestations of accountability in politics. However, the phenomenon is much more complex, and fully understanding such a multifaceted object requires bridging bodies of work that usually remain disjointed. This Element assesses the effectiveness of vertical accountability through elections and how interinstitutional accountability operates in checks-and-balances systems, along with the growing role of the courts. It evaluates how the accountability of the bureaucracy has been affected by managerial reforms and different governance transformations. It also scrutinizes to what extent mediatization and policy failure boost accountability, before zooming in on the feelings and reactions of those who are held accountable. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : William N. Dunn
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015062488971

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Public Policy Analysis by William N. Dunn Pdf

Taking a systematic approach, this text stresses the adequate formulation of policy problems as a crucial step in solving them. It covers the historical evolution of policy analysis, the definition and formulation of complex policy problems, and the analysis of policy arguments. For professionals working in the fields of public policy evaluation and public administration.

Author : Leslie Alexander Pal
Publisher : Thomson Nelson
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556037276235

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Beyond Policy Analysis by Leslie Alexander Pal Pdf

Thoroughly updated with new and fresh examples, " Beyond policy analysis " examines the shifting environment of public sector governance. The text goes through the stages of policy formulation, design, implementation, and evaluation, but does so by looking at what has changed in the way governments operate today. Unlike other texts, " Beyond policy analysis " focuses on analytic tools and the conceptual side of public policy, blending strong theory with vivid examples and real-world context.

Author : Sergiu Mişcoiu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527574427

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Democratic Consolidation and Europeanization in Romania by Sergiu Mişcoiu Pdf

This volume is a multi-dimensional analysis of Romania’s political, economic, cultural and societal transformation after 1989. It synthetically depicts the main stages of the processes of democratic transition and consolidation, as well as the subsequent phenomena of Europeanization, but also the series of more recent democratic setbacks that affected the Romanian society. The overall perspective is integrative, providing the reader with a balanced and complete understanding of Romania’s post-communist challenges without being spared of the most sensitive aspects. The volume gathers the contributions of some of the most distinguished experts in different sub-fields of transition studies, including political systems, societal transformations, minority rights, macro-economic dynamics, and foreign policy.

Author : Carl Patton,David Sawicki,Jennifer Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317350002

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Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning by Carl Patton,David Sawicki,Jennifer Clark Pdf

Updated in its 3rd edition, Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning presents quickly applied methods for analyzing and resolving planning and policy issues at state, regional, and urban levels. Divided into two parts, Methods which presents quick methods in nine chapters and is organized around the steps in the policy analysis process, and Cases which presents seven policy cases, ranging in degree of complexity, the text provides readers with the resources they need for effective policy planning and analysis. Quantitative and qualitative methods are systematically combined to address policy dilemmas and urban planning problems. Readers and analysts utilizing this text gain comprehensive skills and background needed to impact public policy.

Author : Beryl A. Radin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798889105442

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Policy Framing Issues in the World of COVID-19 by Beryl A. Radin Pdf

Author : Colin Eden,Fran Ackermann
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446265192

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Making Strategy by Colin Eden,Fran Ackermann Pdf

This book approaches strategy-making in a way that is designed to assist most organizations develop strategy appropriate to their size, purpose and resources. It provides a much-needed guide to the strategy-making process by: elaborating the key concepts and theories of strategic management; by illustrating through case vignettes the issues inherent in the process of strategy-making; and by providing extensive and detailed practical guidelines on the methods, techniques and tools employed in the case vignettes. Key themes explored are: the crucial significance of political feasibility; the role of participation; emphasis on stakeholder management; thinking about alternative futures within the overall process of stra

Author : Sonya Stanford,Elaine Sharland,Nina Rovinelli Heller,Joanne Warner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781350313071

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Beyond the Risk Paradigm in Mental Health Policy and Practice by Sonya Stanford,Elaine Sharland,Nina Rovinelli Heller,Joanne Warner Pdf

Modern society is increasingly preoccupied with fears for the future and the idea of preventing 'the worst'. The result is a focus on attempting to calculate the probabilities of adverse events occurring – in other words, on measuring risk. Since the 1990s, the idea of risk has come to dominate policy and practice in mental health across the USA, Australasia and Europe. In this timely new text, a group of international experts examines the ways in which the narrow focus on specific kinds of risk, such as violence towards others, perpetuates the social disadvantages experienced by mental health service users whilst, at the same time, ignoring the vast array of risks experienced by the service users themselves. Benefitting from the authors' extensive practice experience, the book considers how the dominance of the risk paradigm generates dilemmas for mental health organizations, as well as within leadership and direct practice roles, and offers practical resolutions to these dilemmas that both satisfy professional ethics and improve the experience of the service user. Combining examination of key theories and concepts with insights from front line practice, this latest addition to Palgrave's Beyond the Risk Paradigm series provides an important new dimension to debates on mental health provision.