Weaving the Fabric of Public Policies
Comparing and Integrating Contemporary Frameworks for the Study of Policy Processes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12626143 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Howlett (0000-0003-4689-740X, National University of Singapore, corresponding author), Allan Mcconnell (0000-0002-0755-9291, The University of Sydney), Anthony Perl (0000-0002-7786-0266, Simon Fraser University) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 273-289 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1387-6988 • E-ISSN: 1572-5448 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13876988.2015.1082261 |
| OpenAlex | W2154529336 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 53 |
For close to three decades multiple frameworks of policy-making have served as competitive characterizations of policy processes. All claim to provide accounts that capture diverse factors such as changing governance norms, actors and ideas which drive programme interventions and policy outputs. Paradoxically, the resilience of different models such as the policy cycle framework and the multiple streams framework has been accompanied by numerous critiques that they are “incomplete” and even divorced from the real world. This article presents an effort to synthesize and reconcile these frameworks in which the appeal and strengths of each can be retained while going some way to overcoming their weaknesses and limitations. It does so through the introduction of an integrative metaphor for policy-making – what Wayne Parsons termed “weaving” – which can be applied to all stages of public policy, and is flexible enough to cope with issues such as power, complexity and critical junctures while reconciling different groupings and sets of actors highlighted as significant policy players in earlier models. It elaborates this framework before applying it by way of illustration to one of the most controversial policy initiatives in modern British history: the 1989–93 poll tax. The article and case study highlight the potential for its general application in policy studies
Appeal · Conceptual framework · Corporate governance · Deconstruction (building · Economics · Epistemology · Management · Metaphor · Policy analysis · Policy studies · Political science · Public policy · Social science · Sociology · Strengths and weaknesses · Weaving · Engineering · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Making Policy in a Complex World
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Understanding climate policy integration in the global South through the multiple streams framework
Institutions for long-term problems
Multiple Streams and Plausibility Cones
Réformer sans transformer
An Effective Alternative, Policy Experimentation, and the Multiple Streams Framework
Entwicklungen und aktuelle Trends der Vergleichenden Policyanalyse
International Climate Cooperation and the Watershed of Policy Streams
Reformation or Transformation? Policy Reform in Ireland’s Higher Education System
The chemical framework
Policy Theory Integration in the Environmental, Natural Resource and Energy Policy Fields
The use and misuse of metaphors in e-government studies
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Adapting public policy theory for public health research
The Five‐Thread Model & Academic Policy Entrepreneurs
Theories of policy change and variation reconsidered
Policy-making and truthiness
Hajer’s institutional void and legitimacy without polity
So close but yet so far? Labour Migration Governance in Italy and Spain
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Straddling multiple streams
Reconceptualizing transfer pathways
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Failure in British government
Ambiguity and choice in organizations
Theories of the Policy Process
Conjectures and Refutations
The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning
Bounded Rationality and Organizational Learning
Agendas, alternatives, and public policies
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The politics of policy anomalies
Arenas as institutional sites for policymaking
Ideas and Interests; Agendas and Implementation
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Policy Feedbacks” and Political Change
Not Just Steering but Weaving
Modernising the Policy Process
Setting the Stage
Models For Research into Decision‐MakingProcesses
An advocacy coalition framework of policy change and the role of policy-oriented learning therein
Understanding and influencing the policy process
The policy sciences emerge
Explaining the formation of business-environmentalist collaborations
Themes and Variations
When Effect Becomes Cause
Four Systems of Policy, Politics, and Choice
The Subsystem Family of Concepts
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Process Sequencing Policy Dynamics
Sequencing in public policy
Policy Dismantling
Streams and stages
Opening the Window for Reform
Punctuated Equilibrium in Comparative Perspective
A Theoretical and Conceptual Reexamination of Subsystem Politics
Toward Better Theories of the Policy Process
Political Science and Public Policy
The Dynamics of Foreign Policy Agenda Setting
Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics
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| Unique citing works | 42 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4.2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |