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Politics, Science, and Termination: A Case Study of Water Fluoridation Policy in Calgary in 2011

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  • Brenda O'Neill
  • Taruneek Kapoor
  • Lindsay McLaren

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Policy termination is identified as a rare occurrence and thus difficult to study. However, one policy area, community water fluoridation, has seen an apparent increase in termination in recent years. We examine the specific case of termination in Calgary, Alberta in 2011 with a specific goal to apply Kingdon's Multiple Streams Approach to the policy termination framework. Our findings suggest that of key importance for the termination of water fluoridation was the impending need for an upgrade to the fluoridation infrastructure, the effectiveness of the local anti‐fluoridation activists, the speed of decision making, and a prominent framing of the issue in ethical terms. The opening of a policy window made possible by the 2010 Calgary municipal election, one that introduced a number of new members to council, as well as the presence of a policy entrepreneur who took advantage of the window's opening, were of specific importance to the success of policy termination. 政策终结被确定为一种罕见事件,因此难以进行研究。然而,社区饮用水氟化这一政策领域在近几年里出现政策终结的情况明显增多。为把金顿的多源流框架应用到政策终结框架中,笔者考察了2011年阿尔伯塔省卡尔加里地区(社区饮用水氟化)政策终结这一特定案例。研究结果发现,对饮用水氟化政策终结而言至关重要的几个因素分别为:升级氟化基础设施的迫切需求、地方反氟化行动家的效力、决策速度、以及从道德上对该问题进行突出表达。2010年卡尔加里市政选举所创造的政策窗口开启(该选举迎来了许多议会新成员),以及政策企业家的出现(其对政策窗口的打开加以利用),这二者对政策终结取得成功而言都具有特定的重要作用。 La terminación de una política se identifica como una ocurrencia rara y, por lo tanto, es difícil de estudiar. Sin embargo, un área de la política, la fluoración del agua de la comunidad, ha visto un aparente aumento en la terminación en los últimos años. Examinamos el caso específico de terminación en Calgary, Alberta en 2011 con un objetivo específico para aplicar el enfoque de corrientes múltiples de Kingdon al marco de terminación de políticas. Nuestros hallazgos sugieren que la importancia clave para la finalización de la fluoración del agua era la necesidad inminente de una actualización de la infraestructura de fluoración, la efectividad de los activistas locales contra la fluoración, la velocidad de la toma de decisiones y un marco prominente del problema en términos éticos. La apertura de una ventana de políticas hecha posible por las elecciones municipales de Calgary en 2010, una que introdujo una cantidad de nuevos miembros al consejo, así como la presencia de un empresario político que aprovechó la apertura de la ventana, fueron de importancia específica para el éxito. de la terminación de la póliza.

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  • Brenda O'Neill & Taruneek Kapoor & Lindsay McLaren, 2019. "Politics, Science, and Termination: A Case Study of Water Fluoridation Policy in Calgary in 2011," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 36(1), pages 99-120, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:36:y:2019:i:1:p:99-120
    DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12318
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