The Political Process of Policymaking

Zittoun, Philippe

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“…The notion of a policy statement (Zittoun, 2014) offers interesting insight because it reunites the actor with the discourse. The definition of a policy statement involves making, propagating, and politicizing statements linking an issue to a solution, and determining legitimate actors, targeted audiences and urgency to act.…”

Section: Policy-making and The Political Uses Of Expert Knowledgementioning

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Strategic ignorance and politics of time: how expert knowledge framed shale gas policies

Chailleux¹

2019

Critical Policy Studies

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The article addresses the various uses of expert knowledge during the controversy over shale gas in France and in Quebec (Canada). Cross-fertilization between policy analysis and science and technology studies demonstrates that political uses of expertise better explained the policymaking process in focusing on two specific utilizations: strategic ignorance and politics of time. Using data from press analysis, interviews, reports and documentation analysis, the article shows that social movements can also use strategic ignorance to support their environmental claims and that mastering the pace of the controversy and the policy debates enabled actors to better support their policy claims. The French case illustrates those two arguments while the Quebec case provides a more tradition account of State/Industry's utilization of knowledge production to delay decision and divert opposition.

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Section: Policy-making and The Political Uses Of Expert Knowledgementioning

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Strategic ignorance and politics of time: how expert knowledge framed shale gas policies

Chailleux¹

2019

Critical Policy Studies

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“…Another strength of the PAF is that it rests on a specific methodology which, on the one side, provides a systematic sociological analysis of relevant policy actors, and, on the other side, takes into account the complexity of the policy process by grasping the interactions with other policy actors during the policy process over time, especially veto‐player opposed to change, competing programmatic groups, allies that can be enrolled in “discursive coalitions” (Zittoun, 2014), and/or in “instrument constituencies” (Voss & Simons, 2014) to facilitate decision and implementation. Lastly, the PAF analyses policy change in a long‐term perspective which helps to understand the intertwining between the dynamics of actors (strengthening or weakening of a programmatic group over time), of policy programs (in relation to the identification of policy failures and transformations of the context) and of policy contents (especially the continuity of a reform path driven by programmatic actors).…”

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The Programmatic Action Framework: An empirical assessment

Hassenteufel

Genieys

2020

European Policy Analysis

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This article starts with a discussion of the analytical issues of the Programmatic Action Framework (PAF); based on the hypothesis that small groups of individuals, sharing a similar analysis of a policy problem sustaining a common policy change program (including orientations, arguments, and instruments) giving them a collective identity, and behaving strategically as a collective actor, can be main drivers of policy change. We then present the methodological implications of the empirical analysis of such programmatic groups and policy change programs. The methodology of the Programmatic Action Framework combines tools coming from the sociology of elites (positional analysis, analysis of professional trajectories, relational analysis) and the sociology of the policy process. It was first applied in empirical researches on health insurance reforms in France and the United States since the 1980s, shedding the light on the key role of specialized policy elites (specialized senior civil servants in France, long‐term insiders in the United States). We conclude by stressing that, because of its systematic and encompassing empirical methodology, the Programmatic Action Framework can be used in a comparative way, in other policy sectors than health care.

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“…Therefore, the role of professional actors could be included in the Programmatic Action Framework. Indeed it aims to grasp the complexity of the whole policy process by taking into account the interactions with other policy actors over time: not only between competing programmatic actors, with veto‐players opposed to change and intermediary actors (Genieys & Hassenteufel ), but also with allies, like professional entrepreneurs, that can be enrolled in “instrument constituencies” and/or “discursive coalitions” (Zittoun, ) to facilitate policy changes driven by a programmatic group.…”

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The role of professional groups in policy change: Physician's organizations and the issue of local medical provision shortages in France and Germany

Hassenteufel

Schweyer

Gerlinger

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European Policy Analysis

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This article proposes an endogenous perspective on policy change, combining the analysis of the policy process (policy framing, decision and implementation) with the analysis of the transformation of professional groups and their organizational representation. It deals with the case of territorial undersupply in primary care provision, which has become a key issue in healthcare policies in France and Germany since 2000 (the analysis goes up to 2018). Policy changes in these two health insurances systems cannot be explained only by the salience of the problem, framed as "medical deserts" in France and as "lack of physicians" in Germany. We propose an explanation based on the internal fragmentation of the medical profession, playing a paradoxical role: as limiters of change (for the established and institutionalized organizations) and as promoters of change (for the medical entrepreneurs shaping new organizations defining and supporting new primary care service structures). K E Y W O R D S doctor's organizations, medical entrepreneurs, medical provision, primary care, territorial shortages | 39 HASSENTEUFEL ET AL.

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The Political Process of Policymaking

Cited by 51 publications

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Strategic ignorance and politics of time: how expert knowledge framed shale gas policies

Strategic ignorance and politics of time: how expert knowledge framed shale gas policies

The Programmatic Action Framework: An empirical assessment

The role of professional groups in policy change: Physician's organizations and the issue of local medical provision shortages in France and Germany

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