Comparative Policy Analysis: The Study of Population Policy Determinants in Developing Countries, The Comparative Policy Process and Public Policy-Making

1976 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-258
Author(s):  
J. M. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Population Policy ◽  
Public Policy Making ◽  
Comparative Policy Analysis ◽  
Comparative Policy

scholarly journals Politics, power and public policy-making: a response to Karen Baehler

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Policy Making ◽  
Democratic Polity ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Political Economic

Karen Baehler’s interpretation of my articles (Gregory, 1998, 2002, 2004) indicates that we are largely talking past each other. I believe we make a fundamentally different assumption about the nature of politics in what she refers to as ‘a healthy democratic polity’ (p.3), and about the nature of a capitalist political-economic system. Whereas Baehler acknowledges the importance of the political dimensions of policy analysis and public policymaking, I believe that these elements are more than just important but essential, omnipresent, ineluctable and conclusive in shaping public policy and its effects.

Don't Toss Coins in Garbage Cans: A Prologue to Policy Design

1983 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Dryzek
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Design Task ◽  
Effective Policy ◽  
Level Of Difficulty

ABSTRACTThreats to effective policy-making arising from ubiquitous circumstances of complexity and uncertainty are often taken as reasons to eschew both the attacking of social problems through public policy and cogitation, such as policy analysis, in the policy process. It is suggested here that, as complexity and uncertainty increase, more cogitation is required, not less; but it is crucial that cogitation be of the appropriate sort. Greater use should be made of policy design, as opposed to methods emphasising selection among prespecified alternatives. The required design task varies with the level of difficulty – defined by complexity, uncertainty, and lack of feedback – in any case at hand. A taxonomy of levels of difficulty is developed, together with a preliminary outline of the design task required at each level.

Comparative Policy Analysis: Introduction

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Peet
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Capitalist Class ◽  
Policy Regimes ◽  
Comparative Policy Analysis ◽  
Political Traditions ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
Ideological Structure ◽  
Comparative Policy

Policy regimes are systematic approaches to policy formation made by sets of government or governance institutions that steer capitalist economies in different directions – different enough to matter vitally to billions of people. Comparative policy analysis proposes systematically examining the formation of these public policy regimes across a number of societies. This research and action framework focuses on the rise to hegemonic dominance of neoliberalism, a universal ideology that, most obviously, stresses markets, enterprise, profit, privatization, deregulation, free trade, unrestricted movements of capital and profits, etc., all enforced by the exercise of state power exclusively in the interest of the capitalist class. Neoliberalism has been widely adopted by states as the guiding ideological structure for economic policy making. But neoliberalism encounters resistances from socio-political traditions that, contained by capitalism, reflect a different conception of society and economy. The interaction forms the varieties of “neoliberalisms”.

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