Canadian Public Policy

Informationen zum Autor Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Professor in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University. Klappentext Studies of public policy in Canada are traditionally narrow, focusing on a particular policy area or jurisdiction without giving consideration to the significant procedural commonalities that can be identified across the public policy spectrum. Canadian Public Policy provides the first comprehensive, theoretically informed, empirical evaluation of the development of public policy in Canada. It represents the culmination of a fifteen-year program of large-scale primary research into Canadian policy-making by Michael Howlett, an internationally recognized public policy expert. Each of the chapters investigates one stage of the policy process including agenda setting, policy formulation, decision-making, policy implementation, and policy evaluation in the Canadian context. The volume is book-ended by an introductory section setting out the logic of the policy cycle model, and a conclusion summarizing the research program and results. Investigating how Canadian experiences can inform and contribute to existing policy models, this unique volume will be a fixture in the Canadian public policy literature for years to come. 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 I...

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

Studies of public policy in Canada are traditionally narrow, focusing on a particular policy area or jurisdiction without giving consideration to the significant procedural commonalities that can be identified across the public policy spectrum. Canadian Public Policy provides the first comprehensive, theoretically informed, empirical evaluation of the development of public policy in Canada. It represents the culmination of a fifteen-year program of large-scale primary research into Canadian policy-making by Michael Howlett, an internationally recognized public policy expert.

Each of the chapters investigates one stage of the policy process – including agenda setting, policy formulation, decision-making, policy implementation, and policy evaluation – in the Canadian context. The volume is book-ended by an introductory section setting out the logic of the policy cycle model, and a conclusion summarizing the research program and results. Investigating how Canadian experiences can inform and contribute to existing policy models, this unique volume will be a fixture in the Canadian public policy literature for years to come.

Zusammenfassung
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

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