Instrument constituencies and public policy-making: An introduction

For many years, policy-making has been envisioned as a process in which subsets of policy actors engage in specific types of interactions involved in the definition of policy problems, the articulation of solutions and their matching or enactment. This activity involves the definition of policy goal...

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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-37862018-07-27T03:19:52Z Instrument constituencies and public policy-making: An introduction BELAND, Daniel HOWLETT, Michael MUKHERJEE, Ishani For many years, policy-making has been envisioned as a process in which subsets of policy actors engage in specific types of interactions involved in the definition of policy problems, the articulation of solutions and their matching or enactment. This activity involves the definition of policy goals (both broad and specific), the creation or identification of the means and mechanisms that need to be implemented to realize these goals, and the set of bureaucratic, partisan, electoral and other political struggles involved in their acceptance and transformation into action. While past research on policy subsystems has often assumed or implied that these tasks could be undertaken by any actor, more recent research argues that distinct sets of actors are involved in these three tasks: epistemic communities that are engaged in discussions about policy dilemmas and problems; instrument constituencies that define and promote policy instruments and alternatives; and advocacy coalitions which compete to have their choice of policy alternative and problem frames adopted. Two of these three sets of actors are quite well known and, indeed, have their own literature about what it takes to be a member of an epistemic community or advocacy coalition, although interactions between the two are rarely discussed. The third subset, the instrument constituency, is much less known but has from the outset been considered in relation to these other policy actors. The articles in this special issue focus on better understanding the nature of actor interactions undertaken by instrument constituencies and how these relate to the other kinds of actors involved in policy-making. 2017-09-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2529 info:doi/10.1080/14494035.2017.1375249 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3786/viewcontent/Instrument_constituencies_and_public_policy_making_an_introduction.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Advocacy coalition framework instrument constituencies epistemic communities multiple streams framework policy formulation policy subsystems Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation Policy History, Theory, and Methods
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topic Advocacy coalition framework
instrument constituencies
epistemic communities
multiple streams framework
policy formulation
policy subsystems
Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation
Policy History, Theory, and Methods
spellingShingle Advocacy coalition framework
instrument constituencies
epistemic communities
multiple streams framework
policy formulation
policy subsystems
Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation
Policy History, Theory, and Methods
BELAND, Daniel
HOWLETT, Michael
MUKHERJEE, Ishani
Instrument constituencies and public policy-making: An introduction
description For many years, policy-making has been envisioned as a process in which subsets of policy actors engage in specific types of interactions involved in the definition of policy problems, the articulation of solutions and their matching or enactment. This activity involves the definition of policy goals (both broad and specific), the creation or identification of the means and mechanisms that need to be implemented to realize these goals, and the set of bureaucratic, partisan, electoral and other political struggles involved in their acceptance and transformation into action. While past research on policy subsystems has often assumed or implied that these tasks could be undertaken by any actor, more recent research argues that distinct sets of actors are involved in these three tasks: epistemic communities that are engaged in discussions about policy dilemmas and problems; instrument constituencies that define and promote policy instruments and alternatives; and advocacy coalitions which compete to have their choice of policy alternative and problem frames adopted. Two of these three sets of actors are quite well known and, indeed, have their own literature about what it takes to be a member of an epistemic community or advocacy coalition, although interactions between the two are rarely discussed. The third subset, the instrument constituency, is much less known but has from the outset been considered in relation to these other policy actors. The articles in this special issue focus on better understanding the nature of actor interactions undertaken by instrument constituencies and how these relate to the other kinds of actors involved in policy-making.
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author BELAND, Daniel
HOWLETT, Michael
MUKHERJEE, Ishani
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title Instrument constituencies and public policy-making: An introduction
title_short Instrument constituencies and public policy-making: An introduction
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title_fullStr Instrument constituencies and public policy-making: An introduction
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publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
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