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Designing the Policy Analysis Process

In: Public Policy Analysis

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  • Pieter W. G. Bots

    (Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management)

Abstract

The literature on policy analysis contains few references to design. In fact, the word “design” is notably missing in the index of prominent textbooks on policy analysis (Dunn 1994; Miser and Quade 1985, 1988; MacRae and Whittington 1997; Nagel 1988; Roe 1994; Wildavsky 1987). Bardach (2000, p. 17) and Patton and Sawicki (1986, p. 177) use the term to refer to the design of alternative strategies or solutions as an important phase or activity in a policy analysis. Although the title of their book Policy Analysis by Design suggests otherwise, Bobrow and Dryzek (1987, pp. 18–21) speak only of “policy design”, which is not the same as the design of a policy analysis, because a policy and a policy analysis are two different artifacts. Apparently, although policy analyses are acknowledged to contain design activities, a policy analysis as a whole is not conceived of as something that can be designed.

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  • Pieter W. G. Bots, 2013. "Designing the Policy Analysis Process," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: Wil A. H. Thissen & Warren E. Walker (ed.), Public Policy Analysis, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 103-132, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-1-4614-4602-6_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4602-6_5
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