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11 Policy making Resources
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Understanding Public Policy through Its Instruments—From the Nature of Instruments to the Sociology of Public Policy Instrumentation
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“This paper aims to explain the significance of a political sociology approach to public policy instruments in accounting for processes of public policy change…”
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SARS in Canada and China: Two Approaches to Emergency Health Policy
blackwell-synergy.com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca— — “China and Canada addressed the transnational 2003 SARS outbreak within a common, multilevel network of public-health expertise. The two countries deployed distinct public-health strategies, and faced distinct levels of resistance.”
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Introduction: Understanding Public Policy through Its Instruments—From the Nature of Instruments to the Sociology of Public Policy Instrumentation
blackwell-synergy.com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca— — “This paper aims to explain the significance of a political sociology approach to public policy instruments…instruments at work are not neutral devices: they produce specific effects, independently of the objective pursued, which structure public policy”.
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Learning from Second-Hand Experience: Methodology for Extrapolation-Oriented Case Research
blackwell-synergy.com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca— — “This article offers specific guidance about how researchers can effectively investigate practices in source sites to prepare the ground for disciplined and ingenious extrapolation of practices from source to target sites. The result is illustrated by an extrapolation-oriented case study.”
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A Decade of Treating Networks Seriously
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“This essay reviews recent important texts in the area of policy networks. Together the works illustrate that the scholarship on network governance should move to documenting the diversity and dynamics of policy networks.”
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Fish Stories: Science, Advocacy, and Policy Change in New England Fishery Management
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“This article develops and deploys a problem-definition framework to explain the dramatic shift from a permissive to a protective fishery management regime in New England. [It discusses what factors] caused government officials to modify their approach to fishery management.”
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The Policy Cycle: A Model of Post-Machiavellian Policy Making?
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“This article uses an historical and interpretative method to explore the senses in which a policy cycle coheres with the experiences and values of policy analysts working in contemporary bureaucratic contexts.”
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Bureaucratic Competition in the Policy Process
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“Recent scholarship has emphasized the important role that strategic bureaucratic actors play in the formulation of public policy. This study builds on that research by exploring the ways in which agencies strategically compete with one another over the content and character of public policy.”
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Policy analysis, policy practice and political science
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“This article asks what makes for ‘practical knowledge’ of the policy process. It identifies the theoretical basis for the ‘policy cycle’ model, and asks how this model relates to research on policy and to policy practitioners’ own knowledge.”
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Riding the Wave of Opportunity: Termination in Public Policy
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“[This] article provides a literature review on the termination cycle within the policy cycle, identifies the forces that need to be counteracted for termination to occur, and mainly explores the applicability of Kingdon’s framework to the termination phase of the policy cycle.”
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Managing Value Conflict in Public Policy
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“Policy issues are often characterized by conflicting values. Students of public policy have conceptualized government’s response to value conflicts as a matter of “balancing” competing goals, or striking trade-offs among values. We argue that this… represents only one possibility.”