HLTC43H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Toronto Star, National Post, Canadian Federalism
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In his model, he talks about three different types of policy changes. Social learning: role of ideas in public policymaking process. He sees ideas of being important but he is especially interested in the elites. Distinguish between learning processes associated with normal and radical policy change. In general what processes are forming these different types of policy change. Typology of policy change: first-order change: slight adjustments (ex: availability of resources, second-order change, third order change: the radical or paradigmatic policy change (ex: radically changing how we look at health; government are intervening more) Came up with three types of ideas. Deeply rooted assumption people within these coalition have about knowledge and how to create these knowledge. Who sets the agenda: government, organized interests. Other health disciplines who try to play a role; nurses, physiotherapists but it seems that the physicians have the government: the media.
