Analysing Policy Networks

Explaining Governance Outcomes: Epistemology, Network Governance and Policy Network Analysis

“…The differences between rational choice approaches, based on a positivist epistemology, and dialectical approaches, based on a critical realist epistemology, therefore remain and are probably irreconcilable, but, as mentioned earlier, it would appear that this has not dissuaded scholars from continuing to use the heuristics developed by the PNA school. This includes recent contributions by: Colin Hay and David Richards (2000), who develop a ‘strategic relational theory of networks’ based on the dialectical approach outlined above; Jeremy Richardson (2000) and Ben Kisby (2007), who have examined the role of ideas and policy agendas; Andrew Hindmoor (2009), who has examined the role of priming; and Daugbjerg (1998; see also Daugbjerg and Pedersen, 2004), who has studied how policy capacity varies between different network configurations. In addition, the interpretivist school has presented a more fundamental challenge based on similar arguments to those presented above, emphasising the need to: decentre networks; focus on their social construction from the ‘bottom up’; and use ethnographic methods as a way of capturing these realities (Bevir and Richards, 2009).…”

Autoridad política y cambio de política pública: política de agua y saneamiento en Ecuador desde el enfoque de redes de política

“…El objetivo de este artículo es estudiar el cambio de la política pública de agua y saneamiento en Ecuador entre los años 2008 y 2015, con la finalidad de explicar las principales causas de su transformación y sus consecuencias. Para ello, utilizamos el modelo ideacional (Kisby, 2007) de redes de política en sus tres niveles: contexto, estructura y resultados de la política. La hipótesis que sostenemos aquí es que los instrumentos de la política se transforman debido a la intervención externa del presidente de la república, y que dicha intervención reorganiza el contexto de la política, la estructura de la red y los recursos dentro del proceso de toma de decisiones.…”

“…Entre los más importantes tenemos el enfoque racionalista, el cognitivista y el neoinstitucionalista (Fontanine, 2015). Este trabajo se desarrolla bajo el paraguas del neoinstitucionalismo; en particular, en la propuesta de los tres tipos de cambio de Hall (1993) y en el análisis de redes de política (Knoke, 1993;Klijn, 1998;Bressers y O'Toole, 1998;George y Bennett, 2004;Montpetit, 2005;Kisby, 2007).…”

Using a Triangulated Theoretical Framework and Mixed Methods: Frame, Institutional and Network Analyses

“…Examining where frames become culturalcognitive institutions of a policy subsystem can help to appreciate the institutional landscape of policy processes (Kisbey, 2007) and governance. As was argued in the conceptual basis, policy frames shape and are shaped by the institutional environment (Powell & DiMaggio, 1991).…”