Policy Subsystem Configurations and Policy Change
Operationalizing the Postpositivist Analysis of the Politics of the Policy process
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6328630 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Howlett (0000-0003-4689-740X, Simon Fraser University), M Ramesh (0000-0002-7376-2300, Government of New South Wales) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 466-481 |
| Publication date | 1998-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1541-0072.1998.tb01913.x |
| OpenAlex | W2041568030 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 74 |
| References cited | 97 |
Over the past two decades thinking about the role of politics in the policy process has taken several different shapes. Analysts in the “positivist” school of policy analysis have tended to use restricted notions of politics in their search for policy determinants or causes of policy change. This approach can be contrasted usefully with “postpositivist” analyses, which emphasize the role played by policy discourses in the policy process. This article discusses the manner in which policy networks and policy communities integrate ideas and interests in public policymaking and provide an opportunity to overcome the positivist/post‐positivist conceptual dichotomy. It proposes a model setting out how different subsystem configurations relate to paradigmatic and intraparadigmatic processes of policy change. The paper suggests that the identification of the nature of the policy subsystem in a given policy sector reveals a great deal about its propensity to respond to changes in ideas and interests and is therefore a good indicator of the likely effect “politics,” in either the restrictive or broad sense of the term, will have on policymaking
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| Unique citing works | 74 |
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| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 71 |