Creating an Infrastructure for Comparative Policy Analysis

Baumgartner, Frank R.

doi:10.1111/gove.12243

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“…Developments over the last 40 years indicate that policy studies have indeed evolved in the direction suggested by Simeon and other scholars of the 1970s (Engeli and Rothmayr Allison, 2014). Baumgartner (2016: 5–6) argues that the most important development over the last decades consists of “the creation of an integrated intellectual community across national borders,” which allows for “exploring the reasons for difference as well as the impact of different institutional, cultural, or political factors on important policy outcomes.” At the same time, the diversity and complexity of public policy as a subfield of political science has increased significantly. There is no single theoretical approach or tradition that unifies the subfield.…”

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Has Simeon's Vision Prevailed among Canadian Policy Scholars?

2016

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Concerned by the proliferation of idiosyncratic prescriptive case studies in the nascent subfield of policy studies, Richard Simeon, in his seminal 1976 article, asked scholars to produce more comparative policy research that aimed at explaining general events and contributing to theory building. The extent to which Simeon's vision materialized remains debated. With a view to informing this debate, we conducted a systematic content analysis of the articles published in five major generalist public policy journals from 1980 to 2015. The analysis reveals that Canadian policy scholars took a comparative turn, publishing more territorial, sector and time comparisons than in the past. We also found evidence that theoretical knowledge accumulation is more important today for Canadian authors than it was when Simeon wrote his article.

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The legislative representation of public opinion policy priorities in Italy

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2018

Riv. ital. sci. polit.

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Normative democratic theory requires political actors in parliament and government to represent not only the citizens’ policy preferences, but also their issue priorities. This article investigates Italian dynamic agenda representation – the transmission of public priorities into the policy priorities of the Italian political system. To assess the public’s policy priorities, data on the Most Important Problem from the Eurobarometer polls are used, while the legislative agendas of the members of parliament (MPs) and government are built following the rules of the Comparative Agendas Project. The results of longitudinal analyses across 10 policy areas and 20 semesters (2003–13) suggest a persistent link between the public’s agenda and the prioritization of legislation by the Italian parliament, majority MPs, and government. Contrary to expectations, the opposition does not seem to be responsive to public opinion policy problems when introducing bills.

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Creating an Infrastructure for Comparative Policy Analysis

Cited by 2 publications

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Has Simeon's Vision Prevailed among Canadian Policy Scholars?

Has Simeon's Vision Prevailed among Canadian Policy Scholars?

The legislative representation of public opinion policy priorities in Italy

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