Bureaucracy and Innovation: An Ethnography of Policy Change. By Gerald M. Britan. (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, Sage Library of Social Research No. 115, 1981. Pp. 168. $18.00 cloth; $8.95, paper.) - Bureaucratic Policy Making in a Technological Society. By Gerald S. Gryski. (Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman, 1981. Pp. 243. $18.95, cloth; $8.95, paper.) - Implementing Public Policy. Edited By Dennis J. Palumbo and Marvin A. Harder. (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1981. Pp. xvi + 169. $19.95.)

1982 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 398-399
Author(s):  
David A. Caputo
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Sage Library ◽  
Technological Society

scholarly journals Playing the policy game: a review of the barriers to and enablers of nutrition policy change

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (14) ◽  
pp. 2643-2653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Cullerton ◽  
Timothy Donnet ◽  
Amanda Lee ◽  
Danielle Gallegos
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Nutrition Policy ◽  
Present Review ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Policy Problem ◽  
Neoliberal Ideology ◽  
Practical Experiences ◽  
State And Local

AbstractObjectiveTo progress nutrition policy change and develop more effective advocates, it is useful to consider real-world factors and practical experiences of past advocacy efforts to determine the key barriers to and enablers of nutrition policy change. The present review aimed to identify and synthesize the enablers of and barriers to public policy change within the field of nutrition.DesignElectronic databases were searched systematically for studies examining policy making in public health nutrition. An interpretive synthesis was undertaken.SettingInternational, national, state and local government jurisdictions within high-income, democratic countries.ResultsSixty-three studies were selected for inclusion. Numerous themes were identified explaining the barriers to and enablers of policy change, all of which fell under the overarching category of ‘political will’, underpinned by a second major category, ‘public will’. Sub-themes, including pressure from industry, neoliberal ideology, use of emotions and values, and being visible, were prevalent in describing links between public will, political will and policy change.ConclusionsThe frustration around lack of public policy change in nutrition frequently stems from a belief that policy making is a rational process in which evidence is used to assess the relative costs and benefits of options. The findings from the present review confirm that evidence is only one component of influencing policy change. For policy change to occur there needs to be the political will, and often the public will, for the proposed policy problem and solution. The review presents a suite of enablers which can assist health professionals to influence political and public will in future advocacy efforts.

The Uses of Social Research: Social Investigation in Public Policy-Making

1982 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bulmer ◽  
Michael Carley ◽  
G. Nigel Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social Investigation ◽  
Public Policy Making

scholarly journals Researching Up? Interviews, Emotionality and Policy-Making Elites

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 689-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARAH NEAL ◽  
EUGENE MCLAUGHLIN
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
Negative News

AbstractThis article recounts the methodological story of a qualitative research project that investigated the work of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain and the news media's deconstruction of the Commission's report – the Parekh Report – which was published on 11 October 2000. Our project used a multi-method fieldwork approach, combining textual analysis of news media coverage and the extensive documentary archives of the Commission, along with semi-structured interviews with Commissioners and other figures involved in the publication of the Report. The article attempts to offer a reflexive account of the experiences of interviewing a particular public policy-making elite and examines how a particular ‘public trauma’ – that is, the damaging political fall-out of extremely negative news media coverage of the Parekh Report – inflected our research encounters. We argue that the openness with which many of the participants spoke about this traumatic experience suggests that the production of policy documents can constitute highly emotional labour for participants. We extend this argument by examining how this openness also reveals the instabilities and uncertainties of power within the research interviewee/interviewer relationship. In this way the article seeks to contribute to debates about the problems of defining the category ‘elites’ in both public policy and social research worlds.

Using Social Research in Public Policy Making.

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 634
Author(s):  
Patrica P. Rieker ◽  
Carol H. Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Public Policy Making

The Uses of Social Research: Social Investigation in Public Policy-Making.

Social Forces ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 818
Author(s):  
Jan Fritz ◽  
Martin Bulmer ◽  
Marvin E. Olsen ◽  
Michael Micklin
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social Investigation ◽  
Public Policy Making

Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Implementation Research: a Critical Analysis and Suggested Synthesis

1986 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Sabatier
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Implementation Research ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
The Past

AbstractThis paper first reviews the implementation literature of the past fifteen years, with particular emphasis on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches. It also argues that the 4–6 year time-frame used in most implementation research misses many critical features of public policy-making. The paper then outlines a conceptual framework for examining policy change over a 10–20 year period which combines the best features of the ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches with insights from other literatures.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document