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Introduction to Governance,Politics & Policy
Week 3: The Process & its Problems
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Announcements
Requests to the
Examination Committee
will be processed today…
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Announcements
• When would you like to have your
Econometrics exam?
• Option 1:– Exam on Monday, Jan 10
– Resit on Friday, Jan 28
• Option 2:
– Exam on Friday, Dec 17– Resit on Friday, Jan 21
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Exam Prep: General information
• The exam will consist of 4 essayquestions, answerable in ~1 page
• You have 120 minutes to answer them
– Read the question
– Outline or draft your answer
– Write your answer
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Exam Prep: Grading
• Factual correctness
– Many questions have more than 1 correct
answer
– There are wrong answers
• Usually, the majority of points is
awarded for reasoning…
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Reminder: Questions? Problems?
• Use the courtesy phone
!!!!"• Dial 84712
• Or 043 388 47 12 from your mobile
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Exam Prep: Sample Question 1
Do you agree with the statement “governance is all about government”?
Support your opinion with arguments.
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Exam Prep: Sample Question 2
Some researchers argue that civil servants have asubstantial influence on the policy process.
Others maintain that this influence is limited tospecific tasks within the process.
Which side do you favor, and why? (Give considerationto all phases of the policy process.)
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Exam Prep: More Questions
Two more samplequestions will be posted by Friday (this week)
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Agenda
• Previous models of the policy process
– The garbage can model
• The influence of problems
• Surviving the “alternatives” phase
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Previous models
• Understanding the process by findingits origin
• Understanding the process through themechanism of rational choice
• Understanding the process asincremental improvements to existing
foundations
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Previous models: Origin
• Logic: The origin has an influence onthe chances of a policy
• Any idea has multiple parents
– Tracing is no simple task, either
• This is a group process, not ahierarchical process
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Previous models: Rational Choice
• Decision makers can be understood asrational actors
• The expected outcome does not matchthe actual outcome
• Cognitive limitations
• Behavior does not match the model
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Previous models: Incrementalism
• (Never?) a fresh start, iterativeimprovements to existing solutions
• Suitable, since it decreases effort,focuses on needed improvements
• Unrepresentative of agenda setting
• Does not explain large changes
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Garbage cans
• Cohen, March & Olsen:
– Organized anarchy: no way to develop
coherent preferences
– Loose collection of ideas
– Action -> discovery of preferences
– Members don’t/can’t understand the
process– Membership is fluid
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Garbage cans
• CMO see four streams:
– Problems
– Solutions
– Participants
– Choice opportunities
• Participants are self-propelled: self-
interests
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Garbage cans
• Kingdon sees three other streams:
– Problem recognition
– Formation of policy proposals
– Politics
• Participants can be generalists or
specialists
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Recognizing problems…
• New problems
– Indicators
– Symbols
• Existing programs
– Feedback
… and loosing attention again
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Recognizing problems: indicators
• Basic check for the existence of problems
– Whole agencies are dedicated tomonitoring indicators
– Additionally, studies probe deeper or covernon-monitored items
• Indication of a problem requires that itbe “formulation”
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Recognizing problems: symbols
• Symbols are powerful
– May still need an “interpreter”
• Often, they promote a “lingering” problem to the general attention
• Again: formulating the problem pre-forms the solutions
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Recognizing problems: feedback
• Based on indicators, complaints,experience
• Leads to re-examine the definitions of problem and solution
– Others issues: costs, unintended
consequences
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Disappearing problems
• Why do problems fall off the agenda?
– It’s been solved (perception)
– It’s no longer an issue (perception)
– Solutions are seen as unsustainable(perception)
– It’s unprofitable (perception)
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Processing problems
• Policy communities
• “Soup” & Entrepreneurs
• Survival of the …? Fittest?
• Towards the choice:– Short-listing
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Policy communities
• Members are specialists
– Shared focus
– Shared interaction (?)
– Shared interests (?)
• Fragmentation in community ->fragmentation in policy (proposals)
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“Soup”: the need for entrepreneurs
• Fishing for problems and solutions
– Very broad range: “lots of good ideas
around”
• Entrepreneurs ! investors
– Calling attention to problems
– Promoting solutions
– Expecting a return
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Managing the process
• Entrepreneurs work small policycommunities and larger publics
• This is done– to keep an issue alive
– in anticipation of a “window of
opportunity” (cf. trial balloons)
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Sink or swim
• A usable solution has to be:
– Available
– Feasible
– Acceptable to the public
– Suitable for the medium to long term
• Which solution will get selected?
– Momentum
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This is theory…
• Use task 7 to see how this couldhappen with a real example!
• The task raises a typical Dutchexample
– You don’t need to be familiar with it
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