Policy Analysis in Belgium

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Member States ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Comprehensive Examination ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Different Levels

This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the practice of policy analysis in Belgium and its federated entities. The book integrates available and new knowledge about the science, art, and craft of policy analysis by all relevant policy actors at different levels of government. The book’s investigation of policy analysis in and outside government in Belgium highlights key comparative features of policy analysis in federal systems, in polities with a neo-corporatist consensus tradition in policy-making, and in countries with partitocratic features. The book also adds to a comparative understanding of how such international trends towards professionalizing policy analysis, and towards greater participation and co-production are translated into specific contexts. It also reveals whether there is any ground to claim that European member states are converging their policy-analytical styles under the pressures of Europeanisation.

Public consultation and participation in Belgium: directly engaging citizens beyond the ballot box?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Van Damme ◽  
Vincent Jacquet ◽  
Nathalie Schiffino ◽  
Min Reuchamps
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
Policy Problems ◽  
Different Levels

In Belgium, as in many other countries, there is a growth of diverse types of public inquiries and public consultation arrangements in policy-making. The rationales behind these consultation processes differ as to perspectives on democracy. Some inquiries and consultations are conceived from an instrumental perspective from which it is believed that engaging citizens in policy analysis has something tangible to contribute, by for instance enriching knowledge of specific policy problems, or by fostering policy support necessary for implementing solutions. From a more substantive view on democracy, citizens’ inquiries are rooted in participative and deliberative democracy, and are expected to contribute to legitimacy. In this chapter, the authors analyze the variety of public inquiries and consultation arrangements in Belgium at different levels of government, with a view to clarifying the public’s role in policy making and policy analysis beyond the ballot box.

Constructing time in foreign policy-making: Brexit's timing entrepreneurs, malcontemps and apparatchiks

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-285
Author(s):  
Andrew Hom ◽  
Ryan Beasley
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Foreign Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Foreign Policy Crises ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Background Feature

Abstract Temporal considerations play a role in many models of foreign policy analysis, particularly those focused on decision-making processes. While time features prominently as a background feature against which sequence, cadence and psychological consequence are measured, little attention has been given to how foreign policy agents actively construct their temporal environments. We propose that different foreign policy-making actors develop distinct relationships with time, and that variations in these relationships can help account for the ways in which ‘events’ are transformed into routine practices, change opportunities or full-blown foreign policy crises. We advance a novel conception of time in foreign policy-making through our development of timing theory and the linguistic constructions of ‘time’ by foreign policy actors. We propose a typology of timing agency, which highlights the impact of these orientations on decision-making processes as well as the characteristics of foreign policy behaviours. Using the case of Brexit, we elaborate differences in actors' temporal orientations and show how such differences impact the making of foreign policy.

scholarly journals KONFLIK DAN PERUBAHAN KEBIJAKAN DI PEGUNUNGAN KARST KENDENG: NARASI BELIEF SYSTEM DALAM ADVOCACY COALITIOAN FRAMEWORK

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Catur Wulandari ◽  
Arif Budy Pratama ◽  
Hartuti Purnaweni ◽  
Kismartini Kismartini
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Environmental Conflict ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Advocacy Coalition ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Policy Making Process

                This paper aims to investigate the dynamic of environmental policy making in the effort of attaining sustainable development. Using Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) as a framework of analysis, our study was conducted in the Kendeng environmental conflict, Rembang Regency. Utilised both primary and secondary data on conflict properties from cement industry’s proponents and opponents, researchers obtained vigorous data and evidence through which the ACF may offer a comprehensive explanation on policy process and change.                 Finding shows that the coalition of actor has a pivotal role to influence value and behaviour among policy actors in the Kendeng environmental conflict. The result of this study fills the lacuna of research which focuses the main discussion on advocacy coalition actor-based policy analysis. It also offers a policy agenda focusing on the belief system actor-based policy analysis in which Government of Indonesia worth to consider in the policy making process.

Public inquiries, committees

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cécile Blatrix ◽  
Guillaume Gourgues
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Empirical Approaches

Since the 1980s, several participatory procedures were introduced in France. The legal basis, uses, and effects of these procedures are at the heart of on-going debates among academics and practitioners. This chapter discusses the extent to which the accumulation of participatory procedures challenges French policy analysis. It seeks to understand the short-, mid- and long-term effects of these procedures on decision-making processes. It briefly maps out the main approaches and the principal results of existing academic studies, arguing that French policy analysis is less normative than analytical: the aim of scholars is not to promote a “good practice” of participation, but rather to understand how and why public participation is used by policy actors and its effects on policy making. Indeed, the link between participation and public policies is currently studied according to four theoretical and empirical approaches. They differ from one another according to how French policy analysis considers the effects, uses, impacts, and roles of public participation.

Policy analysis in state governments in Mexico

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan C. Olmeda
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
State Level ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Mexican State ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Mexican Politics

State governments have acquired a central role in Mexican politics and policy making during the last decades as a result of both democratization and decentralization. Nowadays state governments not only concentrate a significant portion of prerogatives and responsibilities in terms of service delivery but also control a substantial share of public spending. However, no systematic studies have been developed in order to understand how state governments function. This chapter provides an overview on how policies are crafted at the subnational (state) level in Mexico, the main actors taking place in the process and the way in which professional knowledge and advice influence policy makers. As it argues, the central role in the policy making process is played by the executive branch, being the governors the ones who have the final word in most important decisions. In addition, secretaries also concentrate power in particular policy areas. As a result of the lack of a professional civil service, however, a significant portion of policy analysis is performed by non-governmental actors (universities, NGOs and private firms). The chapter applies this framework to analyze a particular Mexican state, namely Mexico City.

Financing Social Security and Regulation (EEC) 1408/71

2001 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
Herwig Verschueren
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Direct Link ◽  
Member States ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Social Security Benefits

This article seeks to provide a clearer picture of the role of methods for funding social security benefits in EC Coordination Regulation 1408/71. In past literature and in the case law surrounding Regulation 1408/71, this role has seldom been mentioned. However, this is changing in light of increasing numbers of questions emerging at both the policy-making level and at the level of Court of Justice proceedings. The first part of this paper deals with the role of different methods of financing social security in determining the material scope of the coordination regulation and the question of whether the method of financing certain benefits has a bearing on this material scope. The second part deals with the existing link within the coordination context between paying or having paid contributions and entitlement to benefits. I discuss, inter alia, the extent to which benefit levels are determined by the same legislation as that which determines contribution levels. I examine the extent to which Member States collecting contributions are also responsible for bearing the cost of the corresponding benefits and the extent to which a person who is paying or has paid contributions is entitled to benefits corresponding to those contributions. In light of this examination of the facts as they stand, I endeavour to consider possible alternatives, including the desirability of having a more direct link within the coordination context between payment of contributions and entitlement to benefits.

scholarly journals State Boards of Education: Lesser Known Policy Actors

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle D. Young ◽  
Bryan A. VanGronigen ◽  
Amy Luelle Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Boards Of Education ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Policy Work ◽  
Over Time

Few scholars have engaged in close examinations of state boards of education (SBOEs), their make-up, or the broader implications of their influence over time. SBOE membership, authority, and impact differ significantly across the 50 states. This article reports findings from an exploratory study of three SBOEs and their role as policy actors. Thinking about SBOEs as policy actors focuses attention not only on the power, authority, and policy-making functions of SBOEs, but also on the individuals who serve on SBOEs, their actions, and the discourses constructed through the performance of their policy work.

Public Policy Making and Public Policy Analysis

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee S. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Public Policy Analysis ◽  
Professional Class ◽  
The Many

This chapter reviews the development and growth of the policy-analytic profession. Historically, government decision makers have often called upon those with expertise to assist them in reaching their decisions. This chapter, however, concerns a new professional class of advisors that began developing during the 1950s in the United States. This new profession assists policy makers in understanding better their alternatives and relevant considerations for choosing among them. From here, the chapter offers some perspective on the research to date that has attempted to assess the effects of the profession—a perspective that emphasizes some important differences across the many types of governmental settings that utilize policy analysis, and the methodological difficulties that assessment efforts confront.

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