The Impact of Foundation-Funded Commissions on Health Policy

Feldman, Penny Hollander; Putnam, Susan K.; Gerteis, Margaret

doi:10.1377/hlthaff.11.4.207

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“…All levels of government have made use of commissions at various times, as have private organizations and foundations seeking to influence public policy” (p. 3). Presidential commissions tend to be the most visible and most written about (Deal, 1995; Flitner, 1986; Feldman, Putnam, & Gerteis, 1992; Linowes, 1998; Johnson, & Marcus, 1985; Ginsburg & Plank, 1995; Komarovsky, 1975; Tutchings, 1979). More than one hundred commissions have been created over the past six decades.…”

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Setting Agendas and Designing Alternatives: Policymaking and the Strategic Role of Meetings¹

Tepper

2004

Review of Policy Research

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This paper investigates the role of strategic forums-such as special commissions, task forces, roundtables, working groups, summits-in the policy process. Reviewing prominent theories about policymaking, the author suggests ways in which strategic forums might fit within these frameworks as an analytically distinct policy lever. The paper examines existing literature on such forums, and identifies characteristics of "meetings that matter"-those gatherings that appear to have achieved some policy traction in a given domain. Finally, the paper investigates a particular field, cultural policy, to evaluate the extent to which meetings are serving policy purposes.The author concludes that meetings can serve an important role in the policy process by framing public problems and highlighting policy alternatives; creating and sustaining policy communities; fostering policy transfer and knowledge uptake; and developing networks among policy entrepreneurs. Nonetheless, with regard to cultural policy, the author argues that, compared to other policy domains, strategic policy-focused convenings are not a regular part of the arts and culture landscape and remain underused policy tools.

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2004

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“…Much of the literature pertaining to task forces or “advisory commissions” is at the federal level (see Deal, ; Feldman, Putnam, & Gerteis, ; Flitner, ; Ginsburg & Plank, ; Johnson & Marcus, ; Komarovsky, ; Linowes, ; Tutchings, ). Throughout the past six decades, presidents have formed over one hundred commissions and the consensus in the research is that they have increasingly relied on these bodies to gain information in areas ranging from race relations to healthcare.…”

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“Blue Ribbon” Commissions, Interest Groups, and the Formulation of Policy in the American States

Ritchey¹,

Nicholson‐Crotty²

2014

Policy Stud J

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Despite the prevalence of state‐level commissions convened to make policy recommendations, research to date has not systematically investigated the ways in which these bodies impact policy or degree to which state‐level interest groups can use these institutions in that process. We argue that less powerful groups will favor these mechanisms and use them to get issues onto the institutional agenda and to increase the likelihood of legislative success. We also suggest that traditionally powerful groups will oppose the creation of reform‐minded task forces, but will likely use them to hinder policy change once they are formed. We test this assertion in an analysis of the creation and recommendations of task forces convened to study autism insurance mandates, as well as the eventual adoption of such mandates, in the American states between 2001 and 2010. The results suggest that public and industry groups influence the formation and recommendations of task forces, but that the latter appears to have a relatively larger impact. They also suggest that a task force recommendation has a large impact on the likelihood of adopting an autism insurance mandate and that neither the insurance industry nor autism advocacy groups have a direct influence on adoption after controlling for the presence of a recommendation.

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1994

N Engl J Med

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The Impact of Foundation-Funded Commissions on Health Policy

Cited by 5 publications

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Setting Agendas and Designing Alternatives: Policymaking and the Strategic Role of Meetings¹

Setting Agendas and Designing Alternatives: Policymaking and the Strategic Role of Meetings¹

“Blue Ribbon” Commissions, Interest Groups, and the Formulation of Policy in the American States

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