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.

Policy analysis in the states

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary VanLandingham
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
State Level ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Policy Innovation ◽  
The State ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
State Governments ◽  
State Policymaking ◽  
High Level

State governments have been called the ‘laboratories of democracy’ due to their high level of policy innovation. A great deal of policy analysis occurs at the state level to support this experimentation, including internal legislative and executive branch research offices, university think tanks, and private and nonprofit organizations that generate studies to influence state policymaking. Given the diversity among the states, it is not surprising that their policy analysis organizations and activities also vary widely. While state-level policy analysis has grown rapidly, it has also fragmented, and many policy analysis organizations face important challenges. This chapter discusses these trends and the future of policy analysis in the states.

scholarly journals The usefulness of algorithmic models in policy making

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daan Kolkman
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Science ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Organizational Benefits ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Policy Analysts ◽  
Quality Policy

Governments increasingly use algorithmic models to inform their policy making process. Many suggest that employing such quantifications will lead to more efficient, more effective or otherwise better quality policy making. Yet, it remains unclear to what extent these benefits materialize and if so, how they are brought about. This paper draws on the sociology and policy science literature to study how algorithmic models, a particular type of quantification, are used in policy analysis. It presents the outcomes of 38 unstructured interviews with data scientists, policy analysts, and policy makers that work with algorithmic models in government. Based on an in-depth analysis of these interviews, I conclude that the usefulness of algorithmic models in policy analysis is best understood in terms of the commensurability of these quantifications. However, these broad communicative and organizational benefits can only be brought about if algorithmic models are handled with care. Otherwise, they may propagate bias, exclude particular social groups, and will entrench existing worldviews.

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.

Developing Virtual Communities to Support Drug Policy Knowledge Exchange

2013 ◽  
pp. 279-302
Author(s):  
Mowafa Househ ◽  
Andre W. Kushniruk ◽  
Malcolm Maclure ◽  
Bruce Carleton ◽  
Denise Cloutier-Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Drug Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Action Case

Within Canada, there is a growing need in the area of drug policy to develop virtual communities to facilitate knowledge exchange between academics and policy-makers. Such collaborations are regarded as a way to make research relevant by influencing the policy-making process. This chapter presents an action case study of three drug policy groups participating in various virtual knowledge exchange activities. The experiences and lessons learned by each group participating in this study are provided. Recommendations and solutions to conduct successful virtual knowledge exchange meetings based on the findings of this research are also provided.

How do radical right populist parties influence resurging debates over the stripping of citizenship?

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-237
Author(s):  
Benjamin Biard
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
The Media

Debates over the stripping of citizenship have been rekindled in many countries in recent years. Radical right populist parties (RRPPs) are often perceived to have played a significant role in these resurging debates, even when they do not possess executive power and are often marginalised by mainstream parties. Thus, RRPPs’ real influence on policy-making remains unclear and the way RRPPs intervene in the policy-making process to influence it has not yet been satisfactorily determined. By focusing on policy-making, this study asks the question: how do RRPPs influence resurging debates over the stripping of citizenship? Using process-tracing and evidence from archives, memoirs and 67 interviews with policy-makers and party leaders, this research aims to determine if and how RRPPs intervene in the process in France and Belgium. The results indicate that RRPPs matter but that their influence is strongly curtailed. Their influence is not exercised directly and through institutional arenas, but indirectly: based on a provocative style, in a specific context, and through public opinion and the media.

Deliberation and Policy-Making: Three Ways to Think About Minipublics’ Consequences

2020 ◽  
pp. 009539972096451
Author(s):  
Vincent Jacquet ◽  
Ramon van der Does
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Making Process

Policy-makers are increasingly experimenting with various ways to involve citizens in policy-making. Deliberative forums composed of lay citizens (minipublics) count among the most popular of such innovations. Despite their popularity, it is often unclear in what ways such minipublics could affect policy-making. This article addresses this issue of conceptual ambiguity by drawing on an original systematic review of the literature. It shows that the literature has approached these consequences in three ways: congruence with decisions, consideration in the policy-making process, and structural change. The article discusses the implications for empirical research and points out trajectories for future research on deliberative minipublics.

The Legislative Council Movement, 1933–1953

1953 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 785-797 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold W. Davey
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
State Level ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Legislative Council ◽  
Administrative Organization ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Revenue Sources ◽  
Primary Responsibility ◽  
Self Examination

Informed policy-making is the primary responsibility of any legislative body in a democracy. The policy-making task at all levels of government has become increasingly complex, technical and burdensome. This has been particularly evident in the years since the Great Depression. The demand for an increasing quantum of governmental services and functions at all levels and the competition among governmental units for revenue sources to finance public services have been chiefly responsible for magnifying the legislative burden. Hence it is surprising and disturbing that the people's policy-makers at the state level have been somewhat loath to reorganize their legislative processes and procedures to meet contemporary needs. Many “little Hoover” commissions have been busily engaged in recent years in attempting to modernize state administrative organization. No correspondingly vigorous effort has been made at legislative self-examination, although the need is at least equally pressing. Only ten states have annual legislative sessions, in spite of the fact that informed students of state government generally agree that the volume of legislative business in most states requires annual sessions.

SEA MUST LEARN HOW POLICY MAKING WORKS

2001 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
pp. 329-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
TRACEY NITZ ◽  
A. L. BROWN
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Strategic Environmental Assessment ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Environmental Input ◽  
Widespread Adoption ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness

The concept of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) has developed rapidly in recent years and has been extensively promoted by environmental assessment (EA) practitioners. SEA has been the focus of considerable dialogue, increasing regulatory attention and emerging evidence of application. This paper seeks to advance the potential for the adoption of SEA in policy making by focusing attention on policy making processes themselves, and on the need for SEA procedures to be moulded to these existing policy making activities. We argue that widespread adoption of SEA concepts is unlikely unless EA practitioners become much more cognisant of the policy making process. Too much of the literature on SEA to date is insular — EA practitioners communicating amongst themselves. Dialogue on SEA development must be between EA proponents and policy makers/theorists if SEA of policy is to fulfil its promise. In order to make SEA of policies effective, SEA must influence the decisions that are intrinsic in policy making. We provide a simplified policy making model and demonstrate that it is necessary, and possible, for SEA to provide environmental input throughout the stages of policy formulation and decision making. The policy making context must drive the form and process of the SEA. In effect, this is an extension of Brown & Hill's (1995) notion of decision scoping, originally developed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of project-based EIA, to the environmental assessment of policies.

Europeanised policy making in Ireland

2021 ◽  
pp. 123-138
Author(s):  
Mary C. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Autonomous Action ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Eu Membership ◽  
Global Positioning ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Domestic Level ◽  
The Eu

In this chapter the influence of the European Union (EU) on the policy making process and policy analysis in Ireland is examined. The country’s EU membership has been marked by periods of volatility, with support for the institution wavering at times. Membership has aided Ireland’s global positioning and ability to cope with international competition, but has also constrained the policy analysis process as autonomous action by national actors can be limited by legal commitments to EU membership. Also, policy initiatives emanating from the EU have sometimes challenged conservative domestic constituencies. The chapter provides a pair of case studies to demonstrate a variety of Europeanisation effects across the Irish policy analysis spectrum. Being part of the EU has produced distinct patterns of adaptation and contestation at the domestic level. The consequences of EU membership have been both expansive and comprehensive, impacting on a myriad of domestic issues, sectors and policies.

How Effective Is Policy Analysis?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Hird
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Specific Recommendation ◽  
Policy Making Process

This chapter discusses the effectiveness of policy analysis generally and then focuses on its use in the federal regulatory setting. It emphasizes that there are quite different definitions of policy analysis, ranging from almost any social science that discusses a policy to a tightly focused analysis of alternative policies evaluated and compared by public interest criteria leading to a specific recommendation. Effectiveness can also be defined broadly, from almost any use that is made of the policy research to whether or not the analysis improves the outcome of the policy-making process as judged by public interest criteria. The chapter clarifies these alternative definitions and reviews the sparse literature that has attempted to assess effectiveness by these definitions.

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