The Political Process of Policymaking [electronic resource] : A Pragmatic Approach to Public Policy /
Zittoun, P.author.
Philippe Zittoun analyses the public policymaking process focusing on how governments relentlessly develop proposals to change public policy to address insoluble problems. Rather than considering this surprising Sisyphean effort as a lack of rationality, the author examines it as a political activity that produces order and stability.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction: The Political Processof Policymaking; 1.1  Definitional activities in public policy; 1.2 Exploring the political question; 1.3 An activity that is essentially political; 2 Creating Social Disorder:Constructing, Propagating andPolicitising Social Problems; 2.1 A pragmatic approach to public problems; 2.2 Definitional struggles around unacceptable problems; 2.3 Conclusion; 3 Defining Solution: A ComplexBricolage to Solve Public Problems; 3.1 Between stratagem and cognitive bricolage: thecontribution of Simon and Lindblom
3.2 From cognitive bricolage to language games3.3 The five couplings in defining solutions; 3.4 From coupling to restoring political order; 3.5 Conclusion; 4Propagating Solution:Argumentative Strategies toCement Coalitions; 4.1 Arguing to persuade; 4.2 Discussion as a test of persuasion strategies; 4.3 From persuasion to diffusion, buildingdiscursive coalitions; 4.4 Conclusion; 5 Policy Statements to Legitimise"Decision-Makers"; 5.1 The paradoxes of taking positions into account; 5.2 The definitional issues of a topography of positions; 5.3 The "decision" to fix topographies within statements
5.4 An empirical example of decision: political decisionmaking of the Paris tramway5.5 Conclusion; 6 Conclusion: How Public PolicyShapes Politics; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Philippe Zittoun analyses the public policymaking process focusing on how governments relentlessly develop proposals to change public policy to address insoluble problems. Rather than considering this surprising Sisyphean effort as a lack of rationality, the author examines it as a political activity that produces order and stability.
Public finance.
Public policy.
Political theory.
Political economy.
Public administration.
Political science.
Public Economics.
Public Policy.
Political Theory.
International Political Economy.
Public Administration.
Political Science.