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Basic concepts of policy analysis
Lecture 4
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Public policy –def.
• What the government chooses to do or not to do.
• “A set of interrelated decisions taken by a political actor or group of actors concerning the selection of goals and the means of achieving them within a specified situation where those decisions should, in principle, be within the power of those actors to achieve" (Jenkins 1978)
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Types of policy (Lowi)
Coercition (costs)
Use of coercition
On individuals On large collectivities
Direct, immediate
Regulative(ex: anti-discrimination law)
Redistributive(ex:quotas; differential income taxation of women and men)
Indirect, diffuse Distributive(childcare)
Constituent(organizational and procedural
reforms for mainstreaming)
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POLICY CYCLE
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The policy cycle
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Drawbacks and advantages of using the policy cycle heuristic
Drawbacks AdvantagesIt’s an ideal type : gives a somewhat unrealistic ideas of the policy process.
In the real world the policy making is not an ordered sequence of actions
Policy making is not always a rational problem-solving activities: can be dominated by irrationality, emotions, casuality.i
Makes the policy process more comprehensible.
Stages are logical, not empirical.
Stages help in orienting research
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AGENDA SETTING• POLICY AGENDA of a government refers to the public
problems that receive attention from the government and the government is determined to act on.
• Only a limited number of public problems enter the governmental agenda: agenda setting is a process of selection among possible problems.
• PROBLEM--------------------------POLICY ISSUE (matter requiring government action)
• According to Cobb and Elder (1983) to enter the political agenda problems must a) receive widespread attention from public b) be considered requiring public action by a sizable part of the public c) be considered as an appropriate concern of some governmental unit and falling within the bounds of its competences. Further the capability of policy entrepreneurs, problem visibility, and the availability of appropriate solutions also influence the probability of inclusion of a problem in the governmental agenda.
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Modes of agenda settingInitiator
Outside initiation
Non-state actor
Policy enterpreneurs outside the government manage to gain the public’s support on a problem and pressure on government to take care of it
Inside initiation
State actor Initiators are inside the government (politicians, burocrats)
Mobilization State actor +non state actors
Initiators inside the government mobilize public’s support on a problem to justify insertion in the agenda
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Policy Formulation and policy sub-systems
• Formulation is the second stage of the policy process and involves the proposal of solutions to agenda issues. It regards the crafting of solutions and options to deal with the problem.
• Who are the major actors contributing to policy formulation ? (politicians, burocrats, experts, lobbies)actors in the policy-subsystem
• Who generates the policy ideas? Where do thy come from ?(policy legacies, policy diffusion, epistemic communities)
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Policy formulation-Preparation: EU
• Commission involvement (legal base)• Formal and informal consultation between
national,sub-national, EU levels• Most lobbying takes place at this stage• Policy networks • Draft by the Commission : Only 20 per
cent of any proposal subject to change after this stage
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Decision
• Regards the choice among policy options • Several models of the decision making process :
They are theoretical frame-works identifying the central aspects of the decision-making process , particularly with reference to :
• The decision maker and his/her cognitive abilities
• The activities of research and analysis of policy options
• The choice and the criteria used for choosing.• The three “classic” models
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Decision maker
Decision maker’s Cognitive abilities
Analysis of policy options
Logic of choice
Global
rationality
unitary Aboslute
(omniscient)Global: all policy options evaluated in terms of costs and benefits
Maximization (of net benefits)
Bounded
rationality
unitary Limited (rules of thumb, habits)
Some policy options are evaluated: most familiar, the first met
Satisfaction
Incrementalism-Partisan mutual adjustment
Plural-partisan
Limited
Partial
The policy options analyzed are those differing only incrementally from the status quo (“where do we go from here?)
Consensus
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• Global and limited rationality - decision as problem-solving
• Incrementalism decision making as bargaining: political process
• The best decision is the one that produce consensus (political rationality)
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IMPLEMENTATION
• refers to “what happens after a bill becomes a law” (Bardach 1977 )
• or
• “translating policy into action” (Barrett 2004: 251).
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• Linear view of implementation
• Implementation as a problem
centre
periphery
time
decision
Technicalexecution
Policyoutcomes
Decision
Policy Outcomes
IMPLEMENTATIONComplex political process, the more so In multi-level politieswith a high number of veto
players
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The discovery of the implementation problem
• A. Wildawsky- R. Pressman 1973 Implementation: how great expectations in Washington are dashed in Oakland or why it is amazing that federal programs work at all….
• The research regards the failure of a federal program for job creation in an underdeveloped area : only 1/6 of the budget was in fact spent and the job created were only 68 against 3000 new jobs expected--- IMPLEMENTATION DEFICIT
• Inaugurated the ”implementation research”
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Complexity of joint action
• Is the main cause of the implementation deficit.• As implementation proceeds new actors enter the process of
implementation . • The growing number of actors imply a growing number of
decisions that must be taken in order to make implementation possible (clearances).
• At every decision point a delay in implementation may occurr.• The probability of delay depends on:• The preferences regarding the policy of the actors whose
decision is required• How intense these preferences are
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Implementation delay
Intensity of actor’s preferences
Direction of actor’s preferences
High Low
Positive Strongly for No delay- compliance, no bargaining needed.
Mildly for Small delay – No bargaining
Negative Strongly againstBig delay . Central aspects of the policy must be re- negotiated
Mildly against-Moderate delay Negotiation is needed but only on minor aspetcs of the policy
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The potential impact of actors on the implementation process
• The more important the resources (financial, of authority ,information) controlled by the actor the bigger can be his/her impact on the implementation process.
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Total implementation delay
• The total implementation delay depends :• On the number of decision points • On the number of actor involved • On the direction and intensity of their
preferences • In multi-level polities (federal states or
regional organization) the probability of delays producing themselves in the long implementation chain is very high.
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POLICY TRANSFER
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Policy transfer
• To Dolowitz and Marsh, policy transfer: "refer[s] to a process in which knowledge about policies, administrative arrangements, and institutions in one time and/or place is used in the development of policies, administrative arrangements, and institutions in another time and/or place" (1996,344).
• What is transferred ? : policies, but also institutions, attitudes or ideas, ideologies, and negative lessons (Dolowitz, 1998).
• Policy transfer is akin to policy diffusion but is a more specific form of it, accounting for only those cases where conscious knowledge of policy is used in policy development elsewhere.
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Policy transfer and levels of government
• Policy transfer may occur between different levels of government:
• International-national • National- National• Nationalinternational • Nationalregional• Nationallocal• Regional-regional • Etc. • (Dolowitz 30 possible paths for policy transfer)
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Lessons drawing (Rose 1991)
• As Rose (1991) lessons drawing occurs when a government looks for solutions to a problem , looking to what in the same nations has been done with similar problems in the past, or to what has been done elsewhere .
• Politicians tend to look abroad to see how politicians elsewhere have responded to similar problems.
• “Lesson drawing serves as a shortcut to problem solving that attempts to avoid reinventing the wheel where solutions to problems may already exist.”(Newmark 2002)
• Lessons drawing may be positive (search for a solution which worked elsewhere) or negative (avoiding a solution that proved un-effective elsewhere)
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Voluntary policy transfer
• Typically, policy transfer is either voluntary or coercive (Dolowitz and Marsh, 1996).
• Voluntary transfer often occurs as a result of dissatisfaction with existing policy : when it occurs , policy makers search for existing solutions to alleviate it.
• A number of factors further facilitate voluntary policy transfer: common language, similar political cultures or ideologies of parties in government, relationships among political or bureucratic elites, the existence of think-tanks and policy entrepreneurs
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Coercive policy transfer
• transfer may also be coercive, either directly or indirectly (Dolowitz and Marsh, 1996).
• Cases of direct coercive policies are policies forced on their members by institutions such as the IMF or the WB.
• Case of coercive policy transfer are the role played by the US in the drafting of the post World War II Constitutions of Japan and Federal Germany
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Intermediate forms of policy tranfer
• There is a middle ground between voluntary and coercive policy transfer (Dolowitz, 1998).
• A country may adopt a policy in order to avoid falling behind other nations which have already adopted the policy.
• International institutions often pressure on nation state to adopt a certain policy
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Modes of lesson drawing (Rose 1991)
Copying Adopting entirely a program already in force in another state or region
Emulation Adoption a program already in force elsewhere but adapting it to the different local circumstances .
Hybridization Combine elements of programs in force in two different places
Synthesis Combine familiar elements from programs in effect in three or more different places.
Ispiration Is not lessons drawing stricto sensu, rather policy-makers use problems and programs adopted elsewhere as an intellectual stimulus to develop new solutions