Disentangling Actors from Their Environment? Pitfalls and Added-Value of the Strategic-Choice Approach

Michaël Tatham

International Journal of Public Administration, 2017, vol. 40, issue 14, 1197-1210

Abstract: This article argues that the Strategic-Choice Approach (SCA) put forward by Lake and Powell (1999b) can be further developed in two directions. First, the article highlights the challenge posed by the interdependence between actors and their environment. From this it draws two conclusions. A) The SCA approach is most fruitful for synchronic analysis but more challenging to implement in a diachronic research design. B) The interdependence between actors and their environment can be lessened by distinguishing between three types of actor preferences: meta, ranked, and pragmatic-preferences. Second, it argues that the SCA is an ideal framework to combine qualitative and quantitative research designs.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2017.1295269

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