Nonpunctuated and Sweeping Policy Change

Bhutan Tobacco Policy Making from 1991 to 2009

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4075327
AutoresMichael Givel (0000-0002-3829-6666, University of Oklahoma, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume29
Fascículo5
Páginas645-660
Data de publicação2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReview of Policy Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1541-132X • E-ISSN: 1541-1338
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1541-1338.2012.00583.x
OpenAlexW1754874868
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas37

This paper examines policy outputs associated with the 2004Bhutan antitobacco law, including 2009 amendments, to determine if the law is congruent with punctuated equilibrium or social policy realism theories of policy change. There was no direct and sudden tobacco policy output change inBhutan due to a shock to the policy system contrary to what punctuated equilibrium theory would predict. Rather, policy change was sweeping but nonpunctuated. This paper reconfirms prior findings of social policy realism theory that various and complex policy output patterns occur due to a mixture of contingent and complex factors. Under social policy realism, a complex interplay of factors drive policy with the state, corporate actors, and interest groups, and the market often playing a primary role. These complex policy outputs have a direct impact on society and the natural environment reflected in government policy output actions or inactions

Economic growth · Economics · Policy analysis · Political science · Public economics · Public policy · Punctuated equilibrium · Realism · Employment and Welfare Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies