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Python Machine Learning Sebastian Raschka. Business Analysis Debra Paul. Computational Economics David A. Desain kebijakan publik 1. As Stephen Linder, B. Guy Peters, Davis Bobrow, Peter May, Patricia Ingraham, Christopher Hood, Renate Mayntz and the other pioneers of policy design research in the s and s argued, like other kinds of design activities in manufacturing and construction, policy design involves three fundamental aspects: 1 knowledge of the basic building blocks or materials with which actors must work in constructing a policy object; 2 the elaboration of a set of principles regarding how these materials should be combined in that construction; and 3 understanding the process by which a design becomes translated into reality.
In a policy context this means understanding the kinds of implementation tools governments have at their disposal in attempting to alter some aspect of society and societal behaviour; elaborating a set of principles concerning which instruments should be used in which circumstances; and understanding the nuances of policy formulation and implementation processes in government.
These tasks are undertaken by experts in policy advice systems, utilizing different sets of ideas they, and other policy actors, have about the normative and cognitive contents of policies. It is in this sense that one can talk about policies being designed or consciously crafted and constructed by state actors.
This does not mean that design is always done well — no more than this is the case in architecture or industrial design — and it does not mean that design is the only activity important to studying or making public policy. Like all these other tasks, design can be done well or poorly, depending on the skills and knowledge of the designer and the amount of time, information and other resources at his or her disposal in the design task. Designers must not always be simply reacting to circumstances or engaging in a process of incremental policy-making, but require some autonomy and capability to systematically evaluate their circumstances and the range of instrument choices they might make if design is to occur in any meaningful sense.
That includes the framing of the policy issue in terms of the behavior of … Expand. Toward Better Theories of the Policy Process. Any theory of the manner in which governmental policies get formulated and implemented, as well as the effects of those actions on the world, requires an understanding of the behavior of major types … Expand. Abstract Getting the incentives and disincentives right in order to ensure proper levels of compliance with government initiatives is a vital assumption of much of the writings on policy design.
Handbook of Behavioural Change and Public Policy. As traditional policy instruments seem to be reaching their limits with regard to effectiveness, it is no wonder that the question arises whether behaviourally-inspired strategies might be an elegant … Expand. Do government choices, rather than legislative policies i. The concepts of policy instruments and policy networks have played important roles in recent theoretical development on public policy, as research in several nations attests.
These notions, however, … Expand. View 1 excerpt, cites background. In a traditional stages model of the public policy process, policy formulation is part of the pre-decision phase of policy making.
Arguments, Assumptions and the Choice of Policy Instruments. An analysis of the arguments and rationales given by the actors in the field of environmental policy may help us understand why certain policy instruments are or are not adopted, and why they are or … Expand. Agenda-setting instruments: means and strategies for the management of policy demands. Policy and Society. ABSTRACT Students of public policy have spent considerable effort setting out the types of policy instruments or tools available to policymakers in different stages of the policy process.
Fourth, policies directly affect participation through voting eligibility, ballot construction, procedures for voting, design of election dis- tricts, and the role that money plays in electing candidates.
As social construction of target populations becomes increasingly negative and divisive, the possibility of creating policy designs that serve democracy decreases. Integrating Normative and Empirical Analysis Using Policy Design Theory From the start, many scholars of policy design chose to study public policy because of its important roles in democratic governance—its potential to solve prob- lems, its potential to embody and to respond to the voices and needs of the gov- erned, its position as the work of government, the primary task of democratically elected representatives and their agents.
Indeed, one of the distinguishing themes in the emergence of policy design and social construction theory is a focus on the normative ends of social inquiry. They assert that it is a worthy goal to develop knowledge for its own sake, but developing the kind of knowledge that serves human society, justice, and quality of life is an even more worthy pursuit.
These two aims are viewed as compatible and mutually reinforc- ing rather than contradictory. Thus, a key element of policy design theory is the integration of normative and empirical analysis.
Policy design theory pushes scholars to think about, and include in their empirical research, not only the technical aspects of a policy but also its implicit ideas, values, and broader meaning within society. It also pushes scholars to think about feed-forward effects as policy outcomes discussed in greater detail earlier including patterns of political voice, power, and democratic responsiveness. Implementation of a given policy has implications for these broader elements of society as well.
Thus Schneider and Ingram suggest that we assess policies in terms of their impacts on problem solving, justice, citizenship, and democratic institutions. These evaluative criteria tend to be well beyond the scope of many policy research programs.
Policy Design as a Complement to Policy Theories We have outlined the key elements of policy design theory and discussed prom- ising directions for research within each of them. While policy design theory offers a distinctive approach to the study of public policy, we see it as a complement to other theories, rather than as their competitor. Scholars using other theoretical perspectives can integrate aspects of policy design theory into their work, and vice versa. Policy design becomes central to other approaches in its attention to how differences in decision making contexts and processes lead to differences in policy designs, and how differences in design affect political behavior and subsequent political processes.
The original Eastonian systems theory viewed policy primarily as a black box Easton, The simple versions of systems theory posit a variety of inputs that result in particular outputs or outcomes, but the central role of policy content in shaping those outcomes is largely missing.
Policy design theory does not seek to replace these aspects of policy as they are, indeed, important, but rather to extend the conceptualizing of policy design so that it embraces far more of the rich differences actually found across policies.
Policy design theory can con- tribute to public choice by placing greater emphasis on the details of what is produced—what the rules actually are.
Policy content is treated as unique to different policy arenas. Policy design theory that embraces the social construction of target populations can be useful in understanding when various types of change are more or less likely to occur Schneider, In the agenda-setting literature, the focus is mainly on how social problems get on the agenda and translated into public and then political issues, but without a corresponding emphasis on the characteristics of the policy itself.
There is no framework, however, for describing or analyzing the policy characteristics that emerge. Policy outcomes are attributed to these, thus policy failure is seen as stemming from weak or incorrect assumptions about the policy problem. Such studies often assume a self-interested utility maximizing individual and the need for powerful policy incentives or disincentives if the policy is to achieve desired results.
Evaluations using quasi-experimental or experimental designs with quantitative measures and analytic methods sometimes take a black box approach to policy content. The implicit message is that these details the content of public policy, its working parts are either self- evident or immaterial. A task for the next generation of policy design and evaluation scholars may well be to look at a more macro level at the intersections and interactions of multiple policy designs on particular social problems or target groups.
On the other hand, studies of implementation have paid far more attention than evaluation studies to policy content, as they often explore the behaviors and practices of government agents with authority to carry out a program while collecting and comparing quantitative indicators of policy outcomes e. Thus, outcomes can be understood or linked back to original policymaking processes in which compromises, rhetoric, etc. Public choice and institutional analyses following Ostrom that focus on the incentive structures created by rules and institutions also have become more common.
However, accounting for social construction processes in policymaking, policy designs, and policy impacts requires interpretive research methods. Policy design theory thus challenges policy scholars to continue to develop and to expand the range of data and of analytical methods brought to bear on policy studies. For example, examining characterizations of target populations requires some form of discourse analysis. Analyzing a policy design involves textual analysis of statutes and administrative guidelines.
Whether policy design theory requires a broader epistemological stance of interpretivism is something to be explored in the next generation of policy studies. Interpretivism is a response to positivism rather than to quantitative analysis per se. As explicated by Yanow and many others, interpretivist researchers conceptualize theory and its role, data and interpretation, and evaluative criteria, even the goal of social science research and the role of researchers them- selves, quite differently from positivist researchers.
For example, interpretivists might see theory as a product of inductive processes, or a resource rather than a set of causal laws Yanow, p. As articulated by Schneider and Ingram , policy design theory seems to straddle these worldviews and ways of knowing rather than choosing between them.
The next generation of policy design studies should grapple directly with these ontological, epistemological, and methodological issues. Next Steps for Policy Design Research and Theory Building Our recipe for the next generation of policy studies is that policy design and social constructions can make important contributions to empirical theory, interpre- tive theory, and perhaps most importantly, to democratic theory.
Public policy schol- arship needs to be relevant to the most important issues of a democratic society, and that means going beyond simply explaining political processes or explaining policy change.
We need to ask how processes shape designs and how designs affect justice, problem solving, citizenship, and subsequent democratic institutions. We need to understand how negative and divisive social constructions of social groups, of types of knowledge, and of events are used to manipulate opinion, and how these become embedded in policy designs.
We need to ask whether political processes produce policy designs that serve democratic ends. We need to ask who political change serves. We need to ask about policy windows—who gains and who loses from different kinds of windows? We need studies that include policy design as causal factors that, if changed, could enable public policy to become a more democratic tool.
Anne Schneider is professor of political science at Arizona State University.
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