scholarly journals Policy Agenda for Sustainable Intermodal Transport in China: An Application of the Multiple Streams Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3915
Author(s):  
Jiawei Ge ◽  
Wenming Shi ◽  
Xuefeng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollutants ◽  
Transport Policy ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Intermodal Transport ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
Policy Window ◽  
Multiple Streams Framework ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
National Mood ◽  
Multiple Interest

Intermodal transport is widely believed to be an efficient way of organizing transportation activities because of its significant role in reducing logistics costs and emissions of air pollutants, which copes with the ever-increasing economic and environmental concerns. This paper applies the multiple streams framework (MSF) to analyze three streams (e.g., the problem stream, policy stream, and politics stream) in setting policy agenda for sustainable intermodal transport in China. By restricting the attention to the opening of the policy window and the coupling of the three streams, the motivation, process, and trend of formulating intermodal transport policy are systematically discussed. The findings show that the key to setting the policy agenda for sustainable intermodal transport in China is to strengthen collaboration among multiple interest groups, boost the national mood, and diversify the identity of policy entrepreneurs. This paper not only verifies the applicability of the MSF, but also helps us to better understand how sustainable intermodal transport policy is formulated in China, thus promoting future policy making.

scholarly journals Decent Work in Scotland, an Agenda-Setting Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
HARTWIG PAUTZ ◽  
SALLY A. WRIGHT ◽  
CHIK COLLINS
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurs ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
Policy Problem ◽  
Policy Window ◽  
Multiple Streams Framework ◽  
Scottish Government

AbstractThis article uses John Kingdon’s multiple streams framework as an analytical tool to consider how the policy issue of ‘job quality’, in the guises of ‘decent work’ and ‘fair work’, developed a ‘career’ in Scotland between 2013 and 2017. The aim is to understand why, despite the efforts of a variety of policy entrepreneurs and the openness of the Scottish Government to this policy problem, job quality did not arrive on the Scottish Government’s decision agenda. The article finds that the crucial ‘policy window’ did not open due to the 2016 ‘Brexit’ decision dramatically changing the political landscape.The article demonstrates the applicability of Kingdon’s framework for agenda-setting analysis in a parliamentary environment and constitutes a rare application of the framework to a ‘live’ policy issue.The authors were involved in a research and advocacy project on ‘decent work’ that was undertaken in Scotland during 2015 and 2016 and therefore were amongst the policy entrepreneurs seeking to place job quality on the Scottish Government’s agenda.

Putting Nonprofits on the Policy Agenda of Post-Soviet Russia: A Story of Convergence

2020 ◽  
pp. 089976402092746
Author(s):  
Lester M. Salamon ◽  
Vladimir Benevolenski
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Transitional Societies ◽  
Multiple Streams Framework ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Active Policy

This article seeks to explain how a dramatic new program of financial and technical assists to nonprofit organizations managed to surface on the active policy agenda of Russia’s government between 2009 and 2013 at precisely the same time the Russian government was suppressing foreign-funded nonprofit organizations as “foreign agents” and earning for itself a reputation as the perpetrators of a “global associational counter-revolution.” To answer this question, the article brings to bear the multiple streams framework (MSF) widely used to explain policy-agenda-formation in the United States and other countries and finds it sheds useful light on the agenda-setting dynamics recently at work in the evolution of government–nonprofit relations in Russia and, possibly, in other transitional societies.

Categories of the ‘Art of the Impossible’: Achieving Sustainable Uniformity in Harmonised Legislation in the Australian Federation

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-381
Author(s):  
Guzyal Hill
Keyword(s):  
Policy Cycle ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
Advocacy Coalition ◽  
Policy Window ◽  
Open Policy ◽  
Multiple Streams Framework ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Common ◽  
Distribution Of Powers ◽  
High Level

National uniform legislation links the federal distribution of powers achieved more than 119 years ago with the challenges and opportunities faced by Australia in an interconnected world. Over this span of time, developing national uniform legislation has been described as the ‘art of the impossible’. The main objective of this article is to critically examine the database of national uniform legislation with a view to applying public policy and federalist theory to explain how sustainable uniformity has been achieved. Rather than focusing on why an individual set of uniform Acts has not achieved a high level of uniformity or has diverged through unilateral amendment, this article examines national uniform legislation by analysing the factors at play. This approach allows the common patterns impacting sustainable uniformity to be identified. From among 84 sets of uniform Acts, four discernible links with theory have been found: (1) the ‘incrementalism and policy cycle’ model—to explain harmonisation that may take decades (31 sets); (2) the ‘multiple streams’ framework, explaining legislation that emerges as sustainably uniform from the outset due to an ‘open policy window’ (16 sets); (3) ‘pragmatic federalism’ solutions, such as skeletal legislation and the conferral of powers, which are developed in the course of inter-jurisdictional negotiations when uniformity is required but is particularly difficult to achieve (14 sets); and (4) the ‘advocacy coalition’ framework, which in contrast, explains situations where jurisdictions hold firm views about retaining diversity (23 sets). Developing and drafting national uniform legislation can become the ‘art of the possible’ with this improved understanding.

Applying Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Framework in the Establishment of Law No.13 of 2012 Concerning the Privilege of Yogyakarta Special Region

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Bastian Widyatama
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Dominant Factor ◽  
Policy Entrepreneur ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Data Collection Process ◽  
Multiple Streams Framework ◽  
Political Approach ◽  
Special Region

Kingdon’s Multiple Streams, a framework to analyze agenda-setting process is widely considered as a ‘universal’ theoretical framework because of its flexibility to be applied. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the validity of this ‘universal’ term. By using the case of the establishment of Law No.13 of 2012 concerning the Privilege of Yogyakarta Special Region, this research aims to apply and examine the Kingdon’s framework. The research has been done by using the qualitative method. Interviewing key persons and interpreting written documents are main techniques in data collection process. As the result, this framework remains applicable in the Yogyakarta case. There are 3 factors that brought Yogyakarta issues into the central government’s agenda encompass problem, policy, and politics. Politics is the most dominant factor indicated by Yogyakartans strong political movement and Sultanate of Yogyakarta’s political approach. In addition, Sultanate of Yogyakarta can also be discussed as a policy entrepreneur. As the conclusion, this research has a significant contribution to Kingdon’s multiple streams framework which is still able to explain social phenomena in policy making studies although there are some concerns that need to be explored further, particularly regarding the role of media and policy entrepreneur. Keywords: Agenda setting, policy, Law No.13 of 2012, Sultanate of Yogyakarta

scholarly journals Understanding Policy Change: Multiple Streams and National Education Curriculum Policy in Hong Kong

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Chow
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Curriculum Policy ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
National Education ◽  
Policy Problem ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Multiple Streams Framework ◽  
Policy Windows ◽  
Policy Solutions

The purpose of this paper is to critically analyse the policymaking process of the Moral and National Education (MNE) curriculum in Hong Kong by employing Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Framework. The aim of the paper is threefold. First, it will describe the policy process of the national education curriculum policy as a foundation for the analysis. Second, the author will critically evaluate and apply Kingdon’s MSF to examine the policymaking process, both to analyse how such policy came to be constructed as a problem and to consider the proposed policy solutions, as well as the surrounding political forces. Third, the analysis will identify the possible coupling of these lines of thought and the notions of “policy entrepreneurs” and “policy windows.”The MNE policy provided a good example of how a policy problem is constructed in various policy contexts, as well as how the solution is matched to the problem. Although the policy outcome is not entirely predictable, Kingdon’s framework is excellent for explaining the likely outcomes.This paper contributes to the wider policy literature by bridging the East-West gap in policy analysis. It provides a better understanding of the policymaking process in Asian countries, and it should also prove useful to both education policy scholars and policymakers. Finally it suggests further research is needed on how social media affects each of Kingdon’s streams in Hong Kong.

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