The Policy Cycle - Introduction
3 important questions on The Policy Cycle - Introduction
What are the steps of the policy cycle?
- Agenda-setting (societal problems that become political accepted)
- Formulation (develop alternatives to solve the problem)
- Proposals (alternatives proposed in policy-making-stage)
- Adoption of a new policy
- Implementation (policy put into practice: operationalization/delivery)
- Output (produced by implementer meant to intervene)
- (non-) compliance (nastreving van society)
- Outcome (effect of output (=output+compliance))
- Assessment (evaluation effects by public/policy actor)
- New agenda setting OR adaptation/replacement/termination of policy
Why has the stage model a heuristic function?
Since the stages of the policy cycle are no description of reality, it can function as a starting point for public problems. (this enables a person to discover or learn something for themselves)
What is the function of the science advisor during the stage of agenda-setting, formulation and implementation?
- Agenda: define problem and assemble arguments to put the problem on the policy agenda
- Formulation: problem structuring (causes and effects), policy design (design alternative solutions), evaluate alternatives, forecast effects, advice the preferred policy, design implementation plan, write report)
- Implementation: monitoring of implementation process, ex-post evaluation (assessment)
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