The Multiple Streams Framework has been criticised for failing to recognise the strong institutional drivers of policymaking in Westminster-type jurisdictions, thereby limiting its relevance for explaining policymaking in such jurisdictions. There has been much recent scholarship exploring its relevance for such jurisdictions. However, a new method has been developed to analyse the application of this popular Framework to case studies of policymaking episodes, using a set of hypotheses to test the Framework’s predictive power. This provides an opportunity to further address two key questions: the applicability of the Multiple Streams Framework to Westminster systems, and the more general question of the relationship between institutions and the Multiple Streams Framework. The research reported here has applied the new method to two episodes of health policymaking in two centralised Westminster jurisdictions with closely aligned political, policymaking and health systems, England and New Zealand. The process and outcomes of each policymaking episode, and the relevance of the Multiple Streams Framework for explaining them using the new method, are presented. While the hypotheses are found to be valid for the policymaking process and outcomes in the English policymaking episode, this is not the case for the New Zealand episode. The findings show that, there is a need for greater recognition of the strong influence of institutional factors in the Multiple Streams Framework, particularly in the decision-making stages of the policy processes, especially with regard to policymaking in centralised Westminster jurisdictions.
{"title":"Applying the Multiple Streams Framework in Westminster systems: A comparative case study of pay-for-performance policymaking in primary health care in England and New Zealand","authors":"Verna Smith","doi":"10.4000/irpp.3529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.3529","url":null,"abstract":"The Multiple Streams Framework has been criticised for failing to recognise the strong institutional drivers of policymaking in Westminster-type jurisdictions, thereby limiting its relevance for explaining policymaking in such jurisdictions. There has been much recent scholarship exploring its relevance for such jurisdictions. However, a new method has been developed to analyse the application of this popular Framework to case studies of policymaking episodes, using a set of hypotheses to test the Framework’s predictive power. This provides an opportunity to further address two key questions: the applicability of the Multiple Streams Framework to Westminster systems, and the more general question of the relationship between institutions and the Multiple Streams Framework. The research reported here has applied the new method to two episodes of health policymaking in two centralised Westminster jurisdictions with closely aligned political, policymaking and health systems, England and New Zealand. The process and outcomes of each policymaking episode, and the relevance of the Multiple Streams Framework for explaining them using the new method, are presented. While the hypotheses are found to be valid for the policymaking process and outcomes in the English policymaking episode, this is not the case for the New Zealand episode. The findings show that, there is a need for greater recognition of the strong influence of institutional factors in the Multiple Streams Framework, particularly in the decision-making stages of the policy processes, especially with regard to policymaking in centralised Westminster jurisdictions.","PeriodicalId":33409,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Policy","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135771888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joe WHELAN, Hidden Voices: Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space","authors":"V. Yilmaz","doi":"10.4000/irpp.3311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.3311","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33409,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46308460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Policy advisory committees in Kenya: interest group participation and effectiveness","authors":"D. Irwin, Mercy Kyande","doi":"10.4000/irpp.3175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.3175","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33409,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46434415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jonathan C. KAMKHAJI, Policy learning and the Euro. The EU's responses to the sovereign debt crisis","authors":"B. Zaki","doi":"10.4000/irpp.3298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.3298","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33409,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43932230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emerging in scholarly discussions about political discourse over the past decade, the terms ‘post-truth’ and ‘denialism’ refer to disagreement not on public policy strategies but on the nature of truth itself. Policy facts are now contested in ways that disrupt mainstream political narratives and weaken institutional legitimacy. In turn, the technocratic response of doubling-down on facts is faltering as the ‘burn it down’ vacuity of post-truth declares equivalent political legitimacy. This strident, self-assured irrationality offers few substantive policy visions, seeking only to bewilder and ‘own’ its perceived enemies including progressive ‘elites,’ science experts, and academics trying to understand the phenomenon. This article discusses disruption in the political discourse about fact-informed policy issues, focusing on a looming period of epistemic instability and the futility of using systematic analysis and logic to understand post-truth.
{"title":"Owning the libs: Post-truth in right-wing political discourse","authors":"K. Hartley","doi":"10.4000/irpp.3510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.3510","url":null,"abstract":"Emerging in scholarly discussions about political discourse over the past decade, the terms ‘post-truth’ and ‘denialism’ refer to disagreement not on public policy strategies but on the nature of truth itself. Policy facts are now contested in ways that disrupt mainstream political narratives and weaken institutional legitimacy. In turn, the technocratic response of doubling-down on facts is faltering as the ‘burn it down’ vacuity of post-truth declares equivalent political legitimacy. This strident, self-assured irrationality offers few substantive policy visions, seeking only to bewilder and ‘own’ its perceived enemies including progressive ‘elites,’ science experts, and academics trying to understand the phenomenon. This article discusses disruption in the political discourse about fact-informed policy issues, focusing on a looming period of epistemic instability and the futility of using systematic analysis and logic to understand post-truth.","PeriodicalId":33409,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48434137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Explaining complexity to power. A failed mission?","authors":"Gloria Regonini","doi":"10.4000/irpp.3235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.3235","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33409,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41752122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Policy dismantling by capacity manipulation in a context of democratic backsliding: The bureaucracy in disarray in Bolsonaro’s Brazil","authors":"M. Silva","doi":"10.4000/irpp.3001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.3001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33409,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46155177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Kyriakidis, N. Zahariadis, Ioannis Papadopoulos
{"title":"A Legislation-Based Database for COVID-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions","authors":"A. Kyriakidis, N. Zahariadis, Ioannis Papadopoulos","doi":"10.4000/irpp.3120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.3120","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33409,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45654894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frank FISCHER, Truth and Post-Truth in Public Policy: Interpreting the Arguments","authors":"K. Hartley","doi":"10.4000/irpp.3044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.3044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33409,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44021409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The strategy of venue creation: Explaining health policy change in Greece","authors":"M. Mavrikou, N. Zahariadis, V. Karokis-Mavrikos","doi":"10.4000/irpp.3018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.3018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33409,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44560898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}