Multidimensionality in State Policy and Programs: A Critique of Pluralist State Theory

1989 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Klak
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
State Policy ◽  
State Policies ◽  
State Theory ◽  
The State ◽  
Policy Planning ◽  
Planning Techniques ◽  
Public Policy Analysis ◽  
Spatial Policy

In public policy analysis the state is often presented as primarily technocratic and virtually separate from society. It freely chooses its own goals, but falls short primarily because of shortcomings in policy planning techniques. This view, however, conflates policy and investment programs, while neglecting state–society relations, multipurpose policies, and the legitimation of spatial policy. State theory must be able to interpret these dimensions of the state and its limited autonomy, as this critique of Lim's theory of state policies suggests.

History as an Obstacle to Change: The Case of Haiti

1989 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Lundahl
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Economic Models ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Public Policy Analysis ◽  
The Government

…widespread social evils are seldom unconnected with the selfish and brutal behavior of powerful groups and individuals…(Andreski, 1966)Most economic models do not explicitly incorporate the “state” or the “government” into their analyses. Instead, this entity is viewed as a deus ex machina which plans and directs economic policy according to notions of efficiency, growth, distributional justice, and so on, that form the central concepts of the models. Unfortunately, the same naive thinking permeates a good deal of public policy analysis. This is the case, for example, with issues of development and underdevelopment. Here, attention is concentrated on “technical,” or “economic,” solutions, while taking for granted, either implicitly or explicitly, the existence of the political will necessary to implement them.

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.

IMPROVEMENT OF MECHANISMS OF PUBLIC POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN THE SOCIO-HUMANITARIAN SPHERE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrii Moisiiakha ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
State Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Humanitarian Mission ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Public Policy Implementation ◽  
Definition Of

The article is devoted to the problems of finding ways to improve the mechanisms of implementation of state policy in the socio-humanitarian sphere. The purpose of this article is to identify areas for improvement of mechanisms for implementing public policy in the socio-humanitarian sphere, taking into account the needs of their unification within a single approach to the organization of social processes in the analyzed area. Achieving this goal has provided solutions to more practical problems: the development of goals, objectives, areas of state policy in the socio-humanitarian sphere, as well as organizational and legal support for its implementation. All this together will allow to introduce quite detailed algorithms and tools for managing the socio-humanitarian development of Ukraine and to quickly and effectively overcome the negative risks that arise in it. The content, essence and state-legal nature of mechanisms of public administration, as a set of ways and tools of practical realization of state policy are revealed. The analysis of modern approaches to understanding the essence of mechanisms of public administration is carried out. The author's definition of the mechanism of public administration in the socio-humanitarian sphere is offered. The content and essence of state policy in the socio-humanitarian sphere are revealed. The conclusion concerning the basic determinants and features of its development is made. Approaches to the formation of mechanisms for the implementation of state policy in the socio-humanitarian sphere are generalized. The need to further unify approaches to the implementation of such public policy in different sectors of the socio-humanitarian sphere has been proved. The main directions of improvement of mechanisms of its realization are allocated. The mechanism of state policy implementation in the socio-humanitarian sphere is defined as a set of nonlinear sets of tools and methods of state influence, which is implemented through appropriate management decisions (a set of measures as components of state policy) to develop the rights and interests of citizens and practical implementation. guarantees of the state in the fields of education, health care, social security, as well as others covered by the humanitarian mission of the state and able to influence the formation of productive forces, human, intellectual and social capital in society.

Reconsidering the state

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-74
Author(s):  
Kate Crowley ◽  
Jenny Stewart ◽  
Adrian Kay ◽  
Brian W. Head
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The State ◽  
Binary Choice ◽  
Policy Effectiveness ◽  
Comparative Public Policy ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
The Core ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Public Policy Analysis

State-centred and society-centred explanations in comparative public policy analysis disagree markedly on the extent to which the state has autonomy or is essentially a clearing-house for outside forces. In this chapter, we reconsider the position of the state in policy studies by investigating the interactions and inter-dependency between the state and society rather than making a binary choice between state-centred and society-centred perspectives on governance. The core argument is that policy studies can improve its ability to apprehend the position of the state in dilemmas of contemporary policy-making by acknowledging that the state is, at once, both critical to collective action and reliant on crucial elements of societal support for its policy effectiveness. In such terms, governance is a useful label for the variety of ways in which society is not simply acted upon by the state, but actively shapes the actions of and outcomes of state activity.

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