Traditional policy analysis approaches are characterized by a
focus on system modeling and choosing among policy alternatives.
While successful in many cases, this approach has been increasingly
criticized for being technocratic and ignoring the behavioral and
political dimensions of most policy processes. In recent decades,
increased awareness of the multi-actor, multiple perspective, and
poly-centric character of many policy processes has led to the
development of a variety of different perspectives on the styles
and roles of policy analysis, and to new analytical tools and
approaches for example, argumentative approaches, participative
policy analysis, and negotiation support. As a result, the field
has become multi-faceted and somewhat fragmented.
"Public Policy Analysis: New Developments "acknowledges the
variety of approaches and provides a synthesis of the traditional
and new approaches to policy analysis. It provides an overview and
typology of different types of policy analytic activities,
characterizing them according to differences in character and
leading values, and linking them to a variety of theoretical
notions on policymaking. Thereby, it provides assistance to both
end users and analysts in choosing an appropriate approach given a
specific policy situation. By broadening the traditional approach
and methods to include the analysis of actors and actor networks
related to the policy issue at hand, it deepens the state of the
art in certain areas. While the main focus of the book is on the
cognitive dimensions of policy analysis, it also links the policy
analysis process to the policymaking process, showing how to
identify and involve all relevant stakeholders in the process, and
how to create favorable conditions for use of the results of policy
analytic efforts by the policy actors.
The book has as its major objective to describe the
state-of-the-art and the latest developments in "ex-ante" policy
analysis. It is divided into two parts. Part I explores and
structures policy analysis developments, the development and
description of approaches to diagnose policy situations, design
policy analytic efforts, and policy process conditions. Part II
focuses on recent developments regarding models and modeling for
policy analysis, placing modeling approaches in the context of the
variety of conditions and approaches elaborated in Part I. "
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