Designing the Policy Analysis Process

Pieter W. G. Bots
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Pieter W. G. Bots: Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management

Chapter Chapter 5 in Public Policy Analysis, 2013, pp 103-132 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The literature on policy analysis contains few references to design. In fact, the word “design” is notably missing in the index of prominent textbooks on policy analysis (Dunn 1994; Miser and Quade 1985, 1988; MacRae and Whittington 1997; Nagel 1988; Roe 1994; Wildavsky 1987). Bardach (2000, p. 17) and Patton and Sawicki (1986, p. 177) use the term to refer to the design of alternative strategies or solutions as an important phase or activity in a policy analysis. Although the title of their book Policy Analysis by Design suggests otherwise, Bobrow and Dryzek (1987, pp. 18–21) speak only of “policy design”, which is not the same as the design of a policy analysis, because a policy and a policy analysis are two different artifacts. Apparently, although policy analyses are acknowledged to contain design activities, a policy analysis as a whole is not conceived of as something that can be designed.

Keywords: Buffer Zone; Policy Analysis; Communicative Interaction; Adaptive Design; Policy Analyst (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4602-6_5

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