POG 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Indian Act, Punctuated Equilibrium, Incrementalism
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Why is policy change difficult: politically controversial; no political will or leadership, lack of public awareness/pressure for change, no clear policy path forward. It involves substantial transformation in the components of policy regimes, including policy ideas and styles: policy regime: describes long-term patterns found in both the substance and process of public policy. Policy networks and policy change: significance of actors and interests in policy subsystems and their connections matter in understanding policy change, policy networks vary in their level of integration. Example: weakly integrated networks would be large and loosely structured, with multiple links with other actors/groups: sub-government: groupings of societal and state actors in routinized patterns of interaction and key player in policy development. Peter hall"s ideas & orders of policy change: first order. Instruments are changed in minor ways but overall policy ideas, goals and main instruments remain the same: second order.