Public policy debate and the rise of policy analysis

Mintrom, Michael; Williams, Claire

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“…In this dissertation "the state" and "the government" will be used interchangeably as per Stillwell (2012); the government is the core of the state and is "so obviously central to the state that one may be forgiven for using the two terms interchangeably" (p. 241). The state is considered 'public' because it finances its activities with money collected from citizens, redistributes theses resources through its policies, and is assumed to act in the best interest of society, and the term public will be used synonymously with 'state' and 'government' (Heywood, 2004;Jarvis, 2013;Mintrom & Williams, 2013). Therefore, the public regulatory approach, also referred to in this dissertation as the public food safety regulatory approach, is considered to be laws, regulations, policies, etc., (also referred to as public standards) created by state institutions through the public policy cycle and other democratic processes and are implemented by public actors such as streetlevel bureaucrats.…”

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Public and private food safety regulatory approaches: exploring the role of global food safety initiative auditors in achieving public health objectives, focusing on the Canadian experience

Driscoll¹

2021

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Governments are faced with a variety of challenging issues that have proven difficult to manage, one of which is providing safe food to its citizens. Recognizing this, and in response to several high-profile food safety crises in the late 1990s, food retailers created the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), a private food safety regulatory approach. Certification to a GFSI-benchmarked private standard is often required through customer-supplier contracts, and as a result, food producers in the global agri-food supply chain may be subject to both the public and a private food safety regulatory approach. This dissertation uses Webb’s (2005) sustainable governance framework, which maintains that public, private, and civil sectors’ institutions, processes, rule instruments and actors have regulatory capabilities in support of public policy objectives, to explore whether or not the GFSI auditor, an actor in the GFSI-system, supports the public heath objectives of the state. Three primary research questions were developed to pursue this inquiry. First, on a functional level, can the GFSI auditor can be considered a public health practitioner analogous to the government’s food safety inspector? Second, do GFSI auditors view themselves as public health practitioners? Third, do other actors in the GFSI-system consider GFSI auditors to be public health practitioners? Using a mixed methods investigative approach, this dissertation presents the following conclusion: though the GFSI auditor can be characterized as a public health practitioner who supports the state’s public health objectives, neither the auditors themselves nor other actors, e.g. representatives of Certification Bodies, Certification Programme Owners, etc., in the GFSIsystem who participated in this research characterize the GFSI auditor as a public health practitioner. The final chapter of this dissertation discusses the public health and policy study significance of this investigation, provides policy recommendations to both the public and private institutions and actors involved governing food safety in Canada intended to strengthen the overall public health system by recognizing the role that GFSI auditors have in promoting public health objectives, and opportunities for further research.

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Public and private food safety regulatory approaches: exploring the role of global food safety initiative auditors in achieving public health objectives, focusing on the Canadian experience

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2021

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“…The abolition of PPBS in the 1970s and of the CPRS in the early 1980s, coupled with the rise of a much more explicitly ideological approach to policymaking in the 1980s, led not to the removal of analysis altogether, but changes in the type and tools of analysis demanded. Thus, the rise of private sector management techniques in running public services (in other words, the New Public Management agenda), coupled with desire to reduce the power and scope of bureaucracy, nurtured a demand for a new set of accounting tools for contracting out public services (Mintrom and Williams 2013).…”

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The tools of policy formulation: an introduction

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Rayner³

2015

The Tools of Policy Formulation

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“…The rise of policy analysis as a profession has been facilitated by the on-going accretion of knowledge about effective approaches to policy development (Mintrom and Williams 2013;Radin 2000;Weiss 1980). Along the way, there have been efforts to outline appropriate content of university-based public policy programs (Wildavsky 1979) and various attempts to establish the set of technical skills required by policy analysts (Weimer and Vining 2017).…”

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Strengthening policy capability: New Zealand's Policy Project

Washington¹,

Mintrom

2018

Policy Design and Practice

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Policy practitioners apply tools and frameworks to policy challenges in order to improve social, economic, and environmental outcomes. Could such tools and frameworks be applied to improve the quality of policy design itself? In 2014, prompted by evidence of widespread inconsistency in the quality of policy advice being produced across agencies, the New Zealand Government launched the Policy Project. It deployed policy analytic tools and frameworks to investigate current practice in policy design to improve the quality of policy advice across the whole of government. Through collaborative methods, the Policy Project identified and codified what quality policy advice looks like and the skills and processes needed to produce it. We review the context and creation of the Policy Project, its contributions, evidence of its impacts, and prospects for its replication across other public sectors.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Public policy debate and the rise of policy analysis

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Public and private food safety regulatory approaches: exploring the role of global food safety initiative auditors in achieving public health objectives, focusing on the Canadian experience

Public and private food safety regulatory approaches: exploring the role of global food safety initiative auditors in achieving public health objectives, focusing on the Canadian experience

The tools of policy formulation: an introduction

Strengthening policy capability: New Zealand's Policy Project

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