Policy Process Theory for Rural Studies: Navigating Context and Generalization in Rural Policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 576-617
Author(s):  
Holly L. Peterson ◽  
Mark K. McBeth ◽  
Michael D. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Policy Process ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
Rural Studies ◽  
Rural Policy

Policy process theory for rural policy

2019 ◽  
pp. 89-104
Author(s):  
Suman Pant ◽  
Casey Taylor ◽  
Brent S. Steel
Keyword(s):  
Policy Process ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
Rural Policy

scholarly journals Using political science to progress public health nutrition: a systematic review

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 2070-2078 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Cullerton ◽  
Timothy Donnet ◽  
Amanda Lee ◽  
Danielle Gallegos
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Nutrition Policy ◽  
High Income ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
Public Health Nutrition ◽  
Policy Making Process

AbstractObjectivePoor dietary intake is the most important behavioural risk factor affecting health globally. Despite this, there has been little investment in public health nutrition policy actions. Policy process theories from the field of political science can aid understanding why policy decisions have occurred and identify how to influence ongoing or future initiatives. The present review aims to examine public health nutrition policy literature and identify whether a policy process theory has been used to analyse the process.DesignElectronic databases were searched systematically for studies examining policy making in public health nutrition in high-income, democratic countries.SettingInternational, national, state and local government jurisdictions within high-income, democratic countries.SubjectsIndividuals and organisations involved in the nutrition policy-making process.ResultsSixty-three studies met the eligibility criteria, most were conducted in the USA and a majority focused on obesity. The analysis demonstrates an accelerating trend in the number of nutrition policy papers published annually and an increase in the diversity of nutrition topics examined. The use of policy process theory was observed from 2003; however, it was utilised by only 14 % of the reviewed papers.ConclusionsThere is limited research into the nutrition policy process in high-income countries. While there has been a small increase in the use of policy process theory from 2003, an opportunity to expand its use is evident. We suggest that nutrition policy making would benefit from a pragmatic approach that ensures those trying to influence or understand the policy-making process are equipped with basic knowledge around these theories.

scholarly journals Research on Policy Change Based on Policy Process Theory—A Case on “Ban E-Bike” Policy in Guangzhou

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiying Su ◽  
Feng Feng
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
Policy Network ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
Advocacy Coalition ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Policy Termination ◽  
Multiple Streams Framework

Policy change includes policy innovation, policy succession, policy maintenance and policy termination, which involves result-orientation and process-orientation. The former focuses on scope and direction of policy change itself, and the latter are those factors affecting policy change. Based on policy process theory, multiple streams framework describes the pre-decisive process; advocate coalition and policy network theories explain interactive process from ideas and interests of different actors. Taking “ban e-bike” policy in Guangzhou as a case, to analyze why it arrived on government agenda by multiple streams framework, and explore policy process integrated advocacy coalition with policy network theory, could explain why the policy was repeatedly prohibited, why this policy change process was from single “ban riding” to more stringent “five bans”. Results show the reasons for policy maintenance and continuation that policy is inconsistent with relevant criteria, relative closed policy community, difficult to reconcile different beliefs between support-coalition and opposition-coalition, and lack interaction among network actors for differences in resource and power.

Policy Process Theory and Natural Hazards

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Birkland
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Focusing Events ◽  
The Public ◽  
Disaster Policy ◽  
Windows Of Opportunity

Natural disasters pose important problems for societies and governments. Governments are charged with making policies to protect public safety. Large disasters, then, can reveal problems in government policies designed to protect the public from the effects of such disasters. Large disasters can serve as focusing events, a term used to describe large, sudden, rare, and harmful events that gain a lot of attention from the public and from policy makers. Such disasters highlight problems and, as the public policy literature suggests, open windows of opportunity for policy change. However, as a review of United States disaster policy from 1950 through 2015 shows, change in disaster policy is often, but not always, driven by major disasters that act as focusing events. But the accumulation of experience from such disasters can lead to learning, which can be useful if later, even more damaging and attention-grabbing events arise.

Public Policy Theory as a Framework for Studying Information Policy: The Case of Canada's Coalition for Public Information

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Cowan Buchanwald
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
Information Highway ◽  
Policy Theory

Public policy theories are proving useful in a study of federal policy making for the Canadian 'information highway'. Preliminary analysis of the role of Canada's Coalition for Public Information (CPI) in the policy process indicates that existing theories such as John Kingdon's policy process theory and the work of William Coleman, Grace Skogstad and Paul Pross in policy community. . .

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