POLICY ANALYSIS AND POLICY DESIGN Teacher: Richard Balme Academic year 2016/2017: Paris School of International Affairs Fall Semester BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Richard Balme is professor of political science at Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs, and research fellow at the Centre d Etudes Europeennes (CEE). He also teaches at the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University, Beijing. He teaches and researches comparative public policy and international relations. Among his recent publications are Collective Action and European Democracy. Power and Protest in the EU (With D. Chabanet). Rowman and Littlefield 2008.Europe-Asia Relations: Building Multilateralisms (With B. Bridges). Palgrave 2008.. Central-Local Relations and Innovation in Environmental Policy-Making: Comparative Perspectives, a special issue of Environmental Policy and Governance, 2014 (With Qi Ye, Eds). Smart Grids Applications and Developments. London, Springer Verlag, 2014 (With Li V., Hills P., Mah D., Eds). COURSE OUTLINE Lecture 1 - Understanding the Policy Process The Policy Process in space and time Policy Formulation and Decision Policy Implementation and Evaluation Michael E. Kraft and Scott R. Furlong, Public Policy. Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, CQ Press, Washington, 2010. Ch. 3 Howlett (Michael), Ramesh (M.), Studying Public Policy. Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems. Oxford University Press, 1995. Ch 3 Lecture 2 Patterns of Public Policy Typologies of Public Policies Big versus Strong Government: Understanding Government Capacity Changing Policy Instruments
Francis Fukuyama, State-Building. Governance and World Order in the 21rst Century. Cornell University Press, 2004.Ch 1 pp 1-42 David Levi-Faur, From big government to big governance? Oxford Handbook of Governance. Oxford, 2012 Andrew Jordan, Rüdiger Wurzel, Anthony Zito, New Instruments of Environmental Governance: Patterns and Pathways of Change, Environmental Politics, 2003, 12/1, 1-24 Lecture 3 The Changing Political Economy of Public Policy State, Market and Societies - Changing Boundaries of Political Economy Informal Institutions: Social Capital and Clientelism Globalization and Institutional Change Globalization as a Normative Process 2013, Ch 1 (17-48) Michael Veseth, What is International Political Economy? Lecture 4 Public Policy as Public Good Provision The possibility of rational choice Properties of public goods Problems of collective action Shepsle (M.), Boncek (M.), Analyzing Politics. Rationality, Behaviour and Institutions. New York Norton, 1997. Ch. 2 and 3 2013, Ch 4 (111-156) Lecture 5 Problem Structuring in Policy Analysis Interests, Ideas, Institutions
Behavioral and Systemic Approaches of Policy Problems Expectations, Policy Values and Policy Objectives W. Dunn, Public Policy Analysis, Ch. 3 Structuring Policy Problems Michael E. Kraft and Scott R. Furlong, Public Policy. Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives.CQ Press, Washington, 2010, Ch 5 D. Stone, Policy Paradox. The Art of Political Decision-Making. Ch. 9, Causes 2013, Ch 10 (281-302) Lecture 6 Assessing Policy Alternatives (1) Efficiency and Effectiveness Michael E. Kraft and Scott R. Furlong, Public Policy. Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives.CQ Press, Washington, 2010, Ch 6 W. Dunn, Public Policy Analysis,Ch 5. 213-272 Lecture 7 Assessing Policy Alternatives (2) The Ethics of Policy Choice Michael E. Kraft and Scott R. Furlong, Public Policy. Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives. CQ Press, Washington, 2010, Ch 6 Stone (Deborah), Policy Paradox. The Art of Political Decision-Making. Norton, 2012, Ch. 5 (107-128) and 15 (331-353) Lecture 8 Agenda Setting Policy Formulation Types of Agenda Setting Decision-Making
Wu Xun, Ramesh M., Howlett M., Fritzen S.A., The Public Policy Primer. Managing the Policy Process. Ch. 3 and 4 2013, Ch 5 (157-180) Lecture 9 Managing Policy Implementation Implementation gaps and implementation traps Patterns of Implementation Design James E. Anderson, Public Policymaking. An Introduction. Ch 6. Policy Implementation, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1990, pp. 171-219 Shepsle (M.), Boncek (M.), Analyzing Politics. Rationality, Behaviour and Institutions. New York Norton, 1997. Bureaucracy and Implementation 2013, Ch 6 (181-206) M. Crozier, E. Friedberg, Actors and Systems. The Politics of Collective Action. Ch. 2 Lecture 10 The Quality of the Policy Process Readings Allan McConnell, Understanding Policy Success, Palgrave Macmillan 2010, Ch. 3 pp 55-80 Rothstein (Bo), Teorell (Jan), What is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Government Institutions, Governance, Vol. 21, 2, April 2008, pp. 165-190 Lecture 11 Formulating Policy Recommendations Eugene Bardach, A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis. Part 1, Appendix B and C William n. Dunn, Public Policy Analysis, An Introduction.Ch.9, (421-464) William n. Dunn, Public Policy Analysis, An Introduction. Appendix 1, The Policy Issue Paper
2013, Ch 11 (303-316)