Advice for practical application

2018 ◽  
pp. 259-276
Author(s):  
Peter Knoepfel
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Resource Analysis ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Public Action

This chapter provides advice on the practical application of the concepts relating to public action resources presented in the book. It proposes experience-based units for measuring each of the ten resources (and related indicators), a way of identifying the resource portfolios of public policy actors (mainly capable of demonstrating the differences between the resource portfolio at the disposal of each one of the three actors) and a standardized way of documenting resource exchanges. Finally, the chapter locates public action resource analysis within the context of comprehensive policy analysis studies based on a seven-point checklist.

The foundations of public policy analysis2

2018 ◽  
pp. 9-42
Author(s):  
Peter Knoepfel
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Institutional Policies ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Public Policy Analysis ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Rules Of The Game

This chapter revisits the foundations of public policy analysis as presented in our previous textbook of 2011 (Knoepfel et al., 2011): the definition of public policies (distinction between substantive and institutional policies), the rejected notion of public action, causality models, actor triangles and resources. It adds some new perspectives on the relation between actors (political-administrative actors, target groups and beneficiaries) and their resources. Finally, it brings some clarification to the topic of the institutions, which are considered as the ‘rules of the game’, and introduces a list of possession, behavioural and decisional rules that feature in the constitutional and private law of Switzerland. The majority of these rules can also be found in other democratic political systems.

Public policy analysis in France: from public action to political power

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrice Duran
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Policy Analysis ◽  
Essential Questions

Policy analysis leads to a strictly empirical conception of political power which conclusively associates the reality of power with the knowledge of that reality. Thereby, the meaning of the analysis of public policy and the relevance of the concepts it has developed for the knowledge of political reality are the essential questions that must be asked in France as elsewhere. This chapter aims to better understand the process of appropriation that has contributed to the full development of public policy analysis on the French academic scene, particularly from the perspective of the sociology of public action that quickly established itself as a dominant analytical approach, and to consider the social utility of policy analysis at a time when questions about how modern societies are managed have become increasingly common.

scholarly journals Sociologia da ação pública: análise de políticas públicas com acento francês

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Denise Direito
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Public Policy Analysis ◽  
Action Analysis ◽  
Multiple Actors

Through a systematic and in-depth literature review, this article presents an overview of categories and concepts used on French approaches to public action analysis, consolidated up from the 1980s. This literature, known as Sociology of Public Action, is still little explored in Brazil. By “sociologizing” public policy analysis, we understand that public action occurs within a negotiation environment between multiple actors inside and outside the State. The text analyzes the origins and main theoretical influences that formed the French approaches, as well as substantive aspects related to these analyzes, such as the understanding of what is State and Actors, and initial concepts on Cognitive Approach, which serve as an analytical complement and, for some authors, as a methodology for empirical studies.

Ethics and Public Policy

1981 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
George J. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Policy Choice ◽  
Single Text ◽  
Public Policy Analysis ◽  
The Government ◽  
New Framework ◽  
Selection Of

The purpose of this course is to introduce a new framework linking the humanities to public policy analysis as pursued in the government and the academy. Current efforts to link the particular contributions from the humanities to problems of public policy choice are often narrow either in terms of their perspective on the humanities or in terms of their selection of the possible means of influencing policy choice. Sometimes a single text from one of the humanities disciplines is selected to apply to a particular issue. At other times, arguments about the ethical dimensions of a single policy issue often are pursued with a single — or sometimes, no — point of access to the policy process in mind.

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