The punctuated equilibrium model of public policy: explaining inertia in Singapore’s Mother Tongue policy

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Lu, Luke
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2022
• الموضوعات: Humanities::Linguistics; Language Planning and Policy; Singapore
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/157065
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

This paper suggests an explicatory model for language policy reform (or lack thereof) at the level of the state. This is accomplished by assessing the value of the ‘punctuated equilibrium’ model of public policy analysis (Howlett and Migone, Policy and Society 30(1):53–62, 2011), which I argue can b...