Canadian Public Policy

Informationen zum Autor Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Professor in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University. Klappentext Canadian Public Policy provides the first comprehensive, theoretically informed, empirical evaluation of the development of public policy in Canada. Zusammenfassung Canadian Public Policy provides the first comprehensive! theoretically informed! empirical evaluation of the development of public policy in Canada. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Figures Table of Tables Acknowledgements Part I - Introduction Chapter 1. - Introduction 1. General Approach 2. Contents: Introduction: Policy Development as Decision-Making Process 3. Historical Overview: The Ir/Rationality of Policy Development 4. Problems with Existing Models: False Dichotomies and Corrective Syntheses 5. Elements of a Policy Style 6. Conclusion: Policy Development as Policy Style Part II - The Policy Process in Canada Chapter 2. - Agenda-Setting - Predictable and Unpredictable Policy Windows: Institutional and Exogenous Correlates of Canadian Federal Agenda-Setting 1. Policy Windows and Policy Theory 2. Analytical Components of the Policy Streams Model 3. Policy Windows in Canada: Empirical Evidence 4. Conclusion 5. Appendix 1: Data Sources 6. Appendix 2: Caseplots of Issues 7. Appendix 3: Caseplots of Institutional Events 8. Appendix 4: Caseplots of Objective Correlates Chapter 3. - Policy Formulation: Do Networks Matter? Linking Policy Network Structure to Policy Outcomes: Evidence from Four Canadian Policy Sectors 1990-2000 1. Introduction: Metaphors and Models in Policy Network Analysis 2. The Link between Subsystem Structure and Policy Change in Policy Network Analysis 3. Testing the Impact of Subsystem Structure on Policy Outcomes: The Elements of an Operational Model of Policy 4. Operationalizing Policy Subsystems 5. Linking Subsystem Configurations to Policy Change 6. Testing the Model: Empirical Evidence from Four Canadian Cases 1990-2000 7. Conclusion 8. Appendix: Data Sources and Summaries Chapter 4. - Decision-Making - Analyzing Multi-Actor! Multi-Round Public Policy Decision-Making Processes in Government: Findings from Five Canadian Cases 1. Introduction 2. The Concept of a Public Policy Decision-Making Style 3. Method and Case Selection 4. Analysis a. Evaluating Hypothesis 1 b. Evaluating Hypothesis 2 c. Evaluating Hypothesis 3 5. Conclusion: Findings and Future Research Directions 6. Appendix A 7. Appendix B - Description of Key Legislative Changes By Issue Area 8. Appendix C - Governmental and Non-governmental Actor Activity by Issue and Year 9. Appendix D - Types of Actor Activity by Rounds Chapter 5. - Policy Implementation: Managing the "Hollow State": Procedural Policy Instruments and Modern Governance 1. Studying Policy Instruments 2. Analysing Procedural Policy Instruments 3. The Rationale for Procedural Instrument Choice 4. Conclusion: Policy Instruments for Modern Governance Chapter 6. - Policy Evaluation - Policy Advice in Multi-Level Governance Systems: Sub-National Policy Analysts and Analysis 1. Introduction: The Supply and Demand for Policy Analysis in Government' 2. The Sub-National Case: Provincial Policy Analysts in Canada 3. Methods 4. The Profile of Provincial Policy Analysts 5. Conclusion Part III - Conclusion Chapter 7. - Conclusion - Policy Analytical Capacity and Evidence-based Policy-making: Lessons from Canada 1. Evidence-based Policy-making as an Effort to Avoid Policy Failures and Enhance the Potential for Policy Success Through Policy Learning 2. Types of Policy Failures and the Role Played by Evidence Therein 3. Defining Policy Analytical Capacity 4. Assessing Policy Analytical Capacity in Practice 5. Policy Analytical Capacity in Canada 6. Conclusion Endnotes References ...

Autorentext

Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Chair in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University and Yong Pung How Chair Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

Klappentext

Canadian Public Policy provides the first comprehensive, theoretically informed, empirical evaluation of the development of public policy in Canada.

Inhalt

Table of Figures

Table of Tables

Acknowledgements

Part I – Introduction

Chapter 1. – Introduction

1. General Approach

2. Contents: Introduction: Policy Development as Decision-Making Process

3. Historical Overview: The Ir/Rationality of Policy Development

4. Problems with Existing Models: False Dichotomies and Corrective Syntheses

5. Elements of a Policy Style

6. Conclusion: Policy Development as Policy Style

Part II - The Policy Process in Canada

Chapter 2. - Agenda-Setting - Predictable and Unpredictable Policy Windows: Institutional and Exogenous Correlates of Canadian Federal Agenda-Setting

1. Policy Windows and Policy Theory

2. Analytical Components of the Policy Streams Model

3. Policy Windows in Canada: Empirical Evidence

4. Conclusion

5. Appendix 1: Data Sources

6. Appendix 2: Caseplots of Issues

7. Appendix 3: Caseplots of Institutional Events

8. Appendix 4: Caseplots of Objective Correlates

Chapter 3. - Policy Formulation: Do Networks Matter? Linking Policy Network Structure to Policy Outcomes: Evidence from Four Canadian Policy Sectors 1990-2000

1. Introduction: Metaphors and Models in Policy Network Analysis

2. The Link between Subsystem Structure and Policy Change in Policy Network Analysis

3. Testing the Impact of Subsystem Structure on Policy Outcomes: The Elements of an Operational Model of Policy

4. Operationalizing Policy Subsystems

5. Linking Subsystem Configurations to Policy Change

6. Testing the Model: Empirical Evidence from Four Canadian Cases 1990-2000

7. Conclusion

8. Appendix: Data Sources and Summaries

Chapter 4. - Decision-Making - Analyzing Multi-Actor, Multi-Round Public Policy Decision-Making Processes in Government: Findings from Five Canadian Cases

1. Introduction

2. The Concept of a Public Policy Decision-Making Style

3. Method and Case Selection

4. Analysis

a. Evaluating Hypothesis 1

b. Evaluating Hypothesis 2

c. Evaluating Hypothesis 3

5. Conclusion: Findings and Future Research Directions

6. Appendix A

7. Appendix B - Description of Key Legislative Changes By Issue Area

8. Appendix C - Governmental and Non-governmental Actor Activity by Issue and Year

9. Appendix D - Types of Actor Activity by Rounds

Chapter 5. - Policy Implementation: Managing the "Hollow State": Procedural Policy Instruments and Modern Governance

1. Studying Policy Instruments

2. Analysing Procedural Policy Instruments

3. The Rationale for Procedural Instrument Choice

4. Conclusion: Policy Instruments for Modern Governance

Chapter 6. - Policy Evaluation – Policy Advice in Multi-Level Governance Systems: Sub-National Policy Analysts and Analysis

1. Introduction: The Supply and Demand for Policy Analysis in Government'

2. The Sub-National Case: Provincial Policy Analysts in Canada

3. Methods

4. The Profile of Provincial Policy Analysts

5. Conclusion

Part III – Conclusion

Chapter 7. - Conclusion - Policy Analytical Capacity and Evidence-based Policy-making: Lessons from Canada

1. Evidence-based Policy-making as an Effort to Avoid Policy Failures and Enhance the Potential for Policy Success Through Policy Learning

2. Types of Policy Failures and the Role Played by Evidence Therein

3. Defining Policy Analytical Capacity

4. Assessing Policy Analytical Capacity in Practice

5. Policy Analytical Capacity in Canada

6. Conclusion

Endnotes

References