Routledge Handbook of Public Policy

553 Pages·2012·3.08 MB·English

by  Eduardo Araral

Routledge Handbook of
Public Policy
This Handbook provides a comprehensive global survey of the policy process. Written by an
outstandingline-upofdistinguishedscholarsandpractitioners,theHandbookcoversallaspectsof
the policy process including:
(cid:1) theory – from rational choice to the new institutionalism
(cid:1) frameworks – network theory, the advocacy coalition framework, punctuated equilibrium
models and institutional analysis and development theory
(cid:1) key stages in the process – agenda-setting, formulation, decision-making, implementation
and evaluation
(cid:1) the roles of key actors and institutions
(cid:1) policy learning and policy dynamics from path dependency to process sequencing
Thisisaninvaluableresourceforallscholars,graduatestudentsandpractitionersinpublicpolicy
and policy analysis.
Eduardo Araral Jr. is Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,
National University of Singapore.
Scott Fritzen is Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National
University of Singapore.
MichaelHowlettisBurnabyMountainChairintheDepartmentofPoliticalScienceatSimon
Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
M Ramesh is Chair Professor of Govenance and Public Policy at the Hong Kong Institute of
Education and Visiting Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National
University of Singapore.
XunWuisAssociateProfessorattheLeeKuanYewSchoolofPublicPolicy,NationalUniversity
of Singapore.

Routledge Handbook of
Public Policy
Edited by
Eduardo Araral Jr.
Scott Fritzen
Michael Howlett
M Ramesh
Xun Wu
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Contents
List of illustrations ix
List of contributors xi
PARTI
Introduction to the study of the public policy process: history
and method 1
1 Public policy debate and the rise of policy analysis 3
Michael Mintrom and Claire Williams
2 The policy-making process 17
Michael Howlett and Sarah Giest
3 Comparative approaches to the study of public policy-making 29
Sophie Schmitt
4 International dimensions and dynamics of policy-making 44
Anthony Perl
PARTII
Conceptualizing public policy-making 57
5 State theory and the rise of the regulatory state 59
Darryl S.L. Jarvis
6 The public choice perspective 76
Andy Whitford
7 Institutional analysis and political economy 87
Michael D. McGinnis and Paul Dragos Aligica
8 Postpositivism and the policy process 98
Raul Perez Lejano
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Contents
PARTIII
Modelling the policy process: frameworks for analysis 113
9 The institutional analysis and development framework 115
Ruth Schuyler House and Eduardo Araral Jr.
10 The advocacy coalition framework: coalitions, learning and policy change 125
Christopher M. Weible and Daniel Nohrstedt
11 The punctuated equilibrium theory of agenda-setting and policy change 138
Graeme Boushey
12 Policy network models 153
Chen-Yu Wu and David Knoke
PARTIV
Understanding the agenda-setting process 165
13 Policy agenda-setting studies: attention, politics and the public 167
Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Peter B. Mortensen
14 Focusing events and policy windows 175
Thomas A. Birkland and Sarah E. DeYoung
15 Agenda-setting and political discourse: major analytical frameworks and
their application 189
David A. Rochefort and Kevin P. Donnelly
16 Mass media and policy-making 204
Stuart Soroka, Stephen Farnsworth, Andrea Lawlor and Lori Young
PARTV
Understanding the formulation process 215
17 Policy design and transfer 217
Anne Schneider
18 Epistemic communities 229
Claire A. Dunlop
19 Policy appraisal 244
John Turnpenny, Camilla Adelle and Andrew Jordan
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20 Policy analytical styles 255
Igor S. Mayer, C. Els van Daalen and Pieter W.G. Bots
PARTVI
Understanding the decision-making process 271
21 Bounded rationality and public policy decision-making 273
Bryan D. Jones and H.F. Thomas III
22 Incrementalism 287
Michael Hayes
23 Models for research into decision-making processes: on phases, streams,
rounds and tracks of decision-making 299
Geert R. Teisman and Arwin van Buuren
24 The garbage can model and the study of the policy-making process 320
Gary Mucciaroni
PARTVII
Understanding the implementation process 329
25 Bureaucracy and the policy process 331
Ora-orn Poocharoen
26 Disagreement and alternative dispute resolution in the policy process 347
Boyd Fuller
27 Governance, networks and intergovernmental systems 361
Robert Agranoff, Michael McGuire and Chris Silvia
28 Development management and policy implementation: relevance beyond
the global South 374
Derick W. Brinkerhoff and Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
PARTVIII
Understanding the evaluation process 385
29Six models of evaluation 387
Evert Vedung
30Policy feedback and learning 401
Patrik Marier
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31 Randomized control trials: what are they, why are they promoted as the
gold standard for casual identification and what can they (not) tell us? 415
David Fuente and Dale Whittington
32 Policy evaluation and public participation 434
Carolyn M. Hendriks
PARTIX
Policy dynamics: patterns of stability and change 449
33 Policy dynamics and change: the never-ending puzzle 451
Giliberto Capano
34 Policy trajectories and legacies: path dependency revisited 462
Adrian Kay
35 Process sequencing 473
Carsten Daugbjerg
36 Learning from success and failure? 484
Allan McConnell
Author index 495
Subject index 510
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Illustrations
Figures
9.1 A framework for institutional analysis 118
10.1 Flow diagram of the advocacy coalition framework 128
11.1 Incremental and punctuated policy change distributions 148
14.1 Comparative attention to terrorism 180
14.2 Dominant problem frames in school violence, by venue 182
16.1 Coverage of natural disasters/weather and pollution/climate change by year 210
18.1 Bibliographic analysis of 638 articles, book chapters and books citing Haas’s
1992 introductory article to the IO special edition 231
18.2 Bibliographic analysis of 638 articles, book chapters and books citing Haas’s
1992 introductory article to the IO special edition (subject areas receiving 11
citations or more) 232
20.1 Policy analysis tasks 258
20.2 Policy analysis styles 259
20.3 The underlying values and criteria of policy analysis 262
20.4 Overview of the complete hexagon model of policy analysis 266
23.1 A depiction of four models for the analysis of decision-making processes 302
23.2 The concept of decision-making used in the phase model 304
23.3 The concept of decision-making used in the stream model 305
23.4 The concept of decision-making used in the rounds model 306
23.5 The concept of decision-making used in the tracks model 307
29.1 Goal-attainment model 389
29.2 Side-effects model with specified pigeonholes for side-effects 391
29.3 Potential stakeholders in local social welfare interventions 395
Tables
2.1 A taxonomy of substantive policy instruments 22
2.2 A resource-based taxonomy of procedural policy instruments 23
3.1 Subdisciplines of comparative public policy research 38
4.1 Supranational governance dynamics 52
5.1 General approaches to political phenomena and illustrative theoretical examples 60
5.2 A comparative typology of the interventionist and regulatory state 68
14.1 The substance of the agenda when events are or are not mentioned in testimony 181
14.2 Key issues addressed in aviation security legislation 183
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