POLITICS 351 - THE PUBLIC POLICY PROCESS

(99 - 3 )

Wednesday 3:30-5:30 - AQ2120

M. Howlett

TUTORIAL OUTLINE:

Tutorials are intended to complement course lectures and readings. IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE REQUIRED READINGS LISTED BELOW BE COMPLETED IN TIME FOR TUTORIALS.

Each tutorial will address the same topic as the week's lectures. Each student will prepare a list of three questions based on the week's recommended readings for each tutorial and post these to the class newsgroup (pol351-d1@sfu.ca) no later than 5:00 Monday of the week of class. These questions will form the basis for discussion in that week's tutorial and will form the major component of the tutorial grade. LATE QUESTIONS WILL RECEIVE A ZERO GRADE.
 
 

WEEKLY TUTORIAL READING LIST



NOTE: All Tutorial readings have been placed on reserve in Bennett Library
 
 

WEEK I: INTRODUCTION

Peters, B. Guy. "The Policy Process: An Institutionalist Perspective." Canadian Public Administration. 35, no. 2 (1992): 160-180.

Sabatier, Paul A. "Toward Better Theories of the Policy Process." PS: Political Science and Politics. 24, no. 2 (1991): 144-156.

Knoke, David. "Networks as Political Glue: Explaining Public Policy-Making." In W. J. Wilson, ed(s), Sociology and the Public Agenda, London: Sage, 1993. 164-184.
 
 

 WEEK II: THE POLICY SCIENCES: ORIGINS AND METHODS Lasswell, Harold D. The Decision Process: Seven Categories of Functional Analysis. College Park: University of Maryland, 1956. 1-23

Wagner, Peter et al. "The Policy Orientation: Legacy and Promise." In C. H. W. Peter Wagner, Bjorn Wittrock, Helmut Wollman, ed(s), Social Sciences and Modern States: National Experiences and Theoretical Crossroads, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 2-27.

Lyden, Fremont J., George A. Shipman, and Robert W. Wilkinson. "Decision-Flow Analysis: A Methodology for Studying the Public Policy-Making Process." In P. P. Le Breton, ed(s), Comparative Administrative Theory, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968. 155-168.
 
 

 WEEK III: POLICY THEORY I - DEDUCTIVE APPROACHES
 
  Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971 Chapter 1

Boris Frankel, "On the State of the State: Marxist Theories of the State After Leninism" in A. Giddens and D. Held, eds., Classes, Power and Conflict Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982 pp. 257-273

March, James G. and Johan P. Olsen. "The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life." American Political Science Review. 78, no. 3 (1984): 734-749.
 
 
 
 

 WEEK IV: POLICY THEORY II - INDUCTIVE APPROACHES
 
  Stokey, Edith and Richard Zeckhauser. A Primer for Policy Analysis. New York: W.W. Norton, 1978, Chapters 14 and 15

Smith, Martin J. "Pluralism, Reformed Pluralism and Neopluralism: The Role of Pressure Groups in Policy-Making." Political Studies. 38: June(1990): 302-22.

Hall, Peter A. and Rosemary C. R. Taylor. "Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms." Political Studies. 44(1996): 936-957.
 
 

 WEEK V: POLICY ACTORS AND INSTITUTIONS
 
  Burstein, Paul. "Policy Domains: Organization, Culture and Policy Outcomes." Annual Review of Sociology. 17(1991): 327-350.

Milward, H. Brinton and Gary L. Walmsley. "Policy Subsystems, Networks and the Tools of Public Management." In R. Eyestone, ed(s), Public Policy Formation, Greenwich: JAI Press, 1984. 3-25.

Atkinson, M. and W. Coleman. "Strong States and Weak States: Sectoral Policy Networks in Advanced Capitalist Economies." British Journal of Political Science. 19, no. 1 (1989): 47-67.
 
 

 WEEK VI: POLICY INSTRUMENTS

Required Reading:

Hood, Christopher. The Tools of Government. Chatham: Chatham House, 1986. pp. 1-16

Woodside, K. "Policy Instruments and the Study of Public Policy." Canadian Journal of Political Science. 19, no. 4 (1986): 775-793.

de Bruijn, J.A. and E.F. ten Heuvelhof. "Instruments for Network Management." In W. J. M. Kickert, E.-H. Klijn and J. F. M. Koppenjan, ed(s), Managing Complex Networks: Strategies for the Public Sector, London: Sage, 1997. 119-136.
 
 
 
 

 WEEK VII: THE POLICY CYCLE (I) - AGENDA SETTING
 
 
 
  Robert Campbell and Leslie Pal, The Real Worlds of Canadian Politics (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1994) Chapter IV - Human Rights
 
  ** OUTLINES DUE
 
 
 
 
 
 

WEEK VIII: THE POLICY CYCLE (II): POLICY FORMULATION
 
 
 
 

Robert Campbell and Leslie Pal, The Real Worlds of Canadian Politics (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1994) Chapter III - Constitution
 
  WEEK IX: THE POLICY CYCLE (III): DECISION-MAKING
 
 
 
  Robert Campbell and Leslie Pal, The Real Worlds of Canadian Politics (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1994) Chapter I - Patents
 
  WEEK X: THE POLICY CYCLE (IV): POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
 
 
 
  Robert Campbell and Leslie Pal, The Real Worlds of Canadian Politics (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1994) Chapter II - Airlines
 
  WEEK XI: THE POLICY CYCLE (V): POLICY EVALUATION AND POLICY LEARNING
 
 
 
  Robert Campbell and Leslie Pal, The Real Worlds of Canadian Politics (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1994) Chapter V - Federal Election
 
  WEEK XII: POLICY CHANGE AND STABILITY
 
 
 
  Hall, Peter A. "Policy Paradigms, Social Learning and the State: The Case of Economic Policy-Making in Britain." Comparative Politics 25:3(1993): 275-96.

Sabatier, Paul A. "An Advocacy Coalition Framework of Policy Change and the Role of Policy-Oriented Learning Therein." Policy Sciences. 21, no. 2/3 (1988): 129-168. - Reprinted in McCool.

Wilsford, David. "Path Dependency, or Why History Makes It Difficult but Not Impossible to Reform Health Care Systems in A Big Way." Journal of Public Policy. 14, no. 3 (1994): 251-284.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 WEEK XIII: CONCLUSION
 
  Jennings, Bruce. "Interpretation and the Practice of Policy Analysis." In Confronting Values in Policy Analysis: The Politics of Criteria, edited by F. Fischer and J. Forester. Newbury Park: Sage, 1987. 128-152.

Dunn, William N. "Methods of the Second Type: Coping with the Wilderness of Conventional Policy Analysis." Policy Studies Review. 7, no. 4 (1988): 720-737.

Heclo, Hugh. "Ideas, Interests and Institutions." In L. C. Dodd and C. Jillson, ed(s), The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches and Interpretations, San Francisco: Westview, 1994. 366-392.
 
 

 ** PAPERS DUE