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A Research Agenda for Policy Dynamics
No full textIndividuazione dei principali fattori di cambiamento delle politiche su cui è necessaria una maggiore attenzione di ricerca da parte dei policy schola
The Multidimensional world of policy dynamics
No full textINtroduzione teorica ai diversi approcci sul cambiamento delle politich
Disentangling the mechanistic chain for better policy design
No full textUnderstanding how policy design can incentivize, constrain, and otherwise structure policy targets’ behavior to achieve desired results is vital but requires a clear understanding of the mechanisms that link policy tools to actual behavior. More importantly, it requires reasoning in terms of the processes and interactions that can be activated by policy tools to accomplish desired results. It is therefore imperative that policy designers – both those who study it and those who practice it – specify clearly the linkages between the input (policy design) and the output, via the intended and unintended processes triggered by the design. Many existing analytical efforts focus only on shedding light on what is needed for good policy design and ignore how good policy design works in terms of the types of processes that can be activated to achieve (or not) the desired results. As a result, we know little about how different solutions trigger and drive the achievement of intended outcomes. The literature on policy design is often based on anecdotes and correlations, jumping from proposed solutions to anticipated outcomes without exploring the conditions that are the real determinants of policy results
European and North American Policy Change. Drivers and dynamics
No full textThe issue of policy dynamics is a key one in policy studies and one which is particularly amenable to comparative policy research. This edited volume brings together some of the leading scholars in the field to examine the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of policy change. Drawing on empirical materials from a variety of longitudinal studies of Europe and North American policy development, this book assesses some of the major existing and unresolved issues currently challenging the discipline. It assesses existing approaches to understanding the multiplicity of drivers of policy change and provides a general map of the composite, multidimensional world of policies in action. The book features case studies on welfare reform, education reform, the World Bank, tobacco control policy, energy policy, agricultural policy, pension reform and the impact of public opinion. Features of the volume include: a focus on both the domestic and international drivers of policy change; contributions from internationally-renowned political scientists and policy experts; and, extensive qualitative data on policy change covering a range of different topics and countries.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of public policy, public administration and public management, and political science programmes worldwide
Introduction: The Determinants of Policy Change: Advancing the Debate
No full textThe issue of policy dynamics is a key one in policy studies and one which is particularly amenable to comparative policy research. Understanding how policies change and the conditions which facilitate or constrain such changes is required if policy managers are to effectively manage policy dynamics and, as such, is a key subject of interest to policy analysts. However, before comparative research can generate valid results, several key issues with
respect to the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of policy change must be addressed
Changing Multi-level Governance: The Regained Centrality of National Policy-makers in Recasting Pensions in Central Eastern Europe
No full textThe chapter focuses on two decades of pension reforms in Central Eastern Europe (CEE). While many analysts have stressed the progressive shift towards multi-level governance, where the World Bank (WB) and the European Union (EU) have increased their influence on national policymakers, evidence from CEE proves national governments have recently re-gained a more central role. While in the 1990s and early 2000s, national policymakers have followed the ‘pension privatisation’ paradigm proposed by International Organisations (IOs); in the wake of the recent economic and financial crisis, some countries have reduced the role of private pension funds while others have continued to privatize their system. Through an actor-centred approach, the present contribution sheds light on the reasons why national governments have re-gained a central role in reforming pensions. In a context marked by weak lock-in mechanisms, actors’ strategies have been crucial to shape governance dynamics. Both national and supra-national actors have altered their governance priorities, and consequently their role in policymaking, on the base of their own political and policy goals. In particular, the changing pensions governance is interpreted to be the consequence of a number of factors: the partial retreat of IOs from the field; the changing policy goals of the EU in the wake of the economic crisis; and the new opportunities for national policymakers to pursue credit-claiming strategies
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Governance styles. Re-thinking governance and public policy
No full textGovernance is a general concept which describes some of the complexity of political and policy
processes by focussing on the relationships existing between governments and the governed.
Policy making is an arena full of actors who are not only vertically structured but also linked
together by a series of informal relationships (Solomon 2008; Richardson 2012), and we need
to understand how these work so that society is steered. The use of the term ‘governance’ helps
to capture these additional aspects of government and governing, where a multitude of actors
interact in both formal and informal ways (for example, international relations, international
political economy, global studies)
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