Policy analysis in political parties

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irma Mendez de Hoyos
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
Party Manifestos

This chapter analyses the extent to which Mexican political parties have evolved and developed competence for policy analysis, offer policy options to party candidates during campaigns and carry out research on public policy to support the decision making process once in government. The main argument is that Mexican political parties are seldom accountable and transparent, and it is not clear which are the incentives to develop policy analysis and research capabilities to compete on the basis of policy choices, given the extended clientelistic network used to gain votes. The analysis is based on three basic sources of information: political parties’ official documents regarding their policy analysis centers (think tanks), party manifestos for the 2006 and 2012 presidential elections and some interviews.

Political parties and think tanks: policy analysis oriented toward office-seeking

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilo Argibay ◽  
Rafaël Cos ◽  
Anne-Cécile Douillet
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Marked Effect ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Party Membership ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Internal Production

This chapter examines the role played by political parties and think tanks in the development of policy analysis in France. It shows how party-based policy analysis is interwoven with inter and intra-party competition related to the objective of seeking office. Indeed, even though policy seeking activities do not look central in the functioning of French political parties, developments in party rationales, like those in the profile of governing parties’ elites, are favourable to intensifying interest in policy issues. Political parties’ professionalization nonetheless appears to have a marked effect on their internal production of public policy expertise: party membership is marginalised while the electoral issues and internal competition have a structuring impact. Lastly, analysis of public policy expertise production shows that it is mainly done in the vicinity of party organisations, due to the significant recourse to experts outside of parties and the role of think tanks.

Economics and policy analysis: ‘from state to market’?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Benamouzig ◽  
Frédéric Lebaron
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Economic Discourse ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Historical Viewpoint ◽  
And Diffusion

This chapter describes and analyses the progressive spread of economic "expertise" in the sphere of public policy. It sketches the historical process of the expansion of economic expertise in France, and discusses the way it involves a reshaping of the relations between the State, markets, universities, and other relevant institutional entities (e.g., political parties, unions, etc.), as well as society in general. Considered from this socio-historical viewpoint, economic expertise seems to have contributed to the opening of State-centered regulation to more pluralistic and market-driven public policies in a number of sectors. The analysis draws more specifically on the case of health care, which has been engaged in a clear transformation from a traditional (welfare) State-centered regulation to more open and economically-driven policy. Various components of economic expertise and its concrete uses are under scrutiny, such as classic macroeconomic/econometric forecasting and conjunctural analysis; sectorial expertise; think tanks and organization-related expertise or counter-expertise; academic knowledge in the sphere of policy advice and decision-making; and the production and diffusion of economic discourse through newspapers, magazines, books, etc.

scholarly journals DYNAMICS OF PARTY COMPETITION IN FOREIGN POLICY DECISION-MAKING PROCESS OF BRAZIL AND CHILE

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (30) ◽  
pp. 89-103
Author(s):  
Bruno Pasquarelli
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Socialist Party ◽  
Veto Players ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Policy Decision Making

The study analyzes the decision-making process in foreign policy, examining the governments of the Workers Party in Brazil and the Socialist Party in Chile, investigating how international acts may be the object of legislative and partisan action and, most important, that is subjected to conflict/consensus between government and opposition. Considering the foreign policy as a public policy, the methodological assumption of this study assumed that political parties are important actors in the decision-making process, acting as veto players and influencing international acts from ideological variables and composition of coalitions.

Policy analysis in Colombia: an introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Nadia Rubaii ◽  
Pablo Sanabria-Pulido
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Critical Juncture ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Institutional Challenges ◽  
Different Levels

This chapter introduces the policy analysis in Colombia at a critical juncture in the country's history when having government officials capable of making evidence-based policy decisions is as important as ever. It evaluates the role of different levels of government, institutions of government, and actors outside of government in the development, implementation, and evaluation of public policy. It also highlights the degree to which analysis informs key substantive policy areas. The chapter details how governmental and nongovernmental institutions and actors have historically contributed to the analysis of policy options and outcomes. It describes Colombia as a country that exemplifies a particular path of development and has been able to configure a relatively developed public administration apparatus even with the presence of key institutional challenges.

Review Essay on Charles F. Manski's Public Policy in an Uncertain World: Analysis and Decisions

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 799-804
Author(s):  
John Geweke
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Economics Profession ◽  
Policy Analysts ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
Policy Setting

Public policy setting often involves quantitative choices with quantitative outcomes. Yet unqualified statements about the precise consequences of alternative choices characterize much of the policy analysis bearing on these decisions. Public Policy in an Uncertain World: Analysis and Decisions by Charles F. Manski characterizes and richly illustrates the nature of this unwarranted certitude. It details specific constructive alternatives on which the economics profession has achieved varying degrees of consensus. Those in our profession charged with the education of future policy analysts should consider using it and how to round out its presentation of decision making from their own perspective. (JEL D02, D04, D80, E61)

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