TY - JOUR
T1 - Policy and power
T2 - A conceptual framework between the 'old' and 'new' policy idioms
AU - Arts, Bas
AU - Tatenhove, Jan Van
PY - 2004/12/1
Y1 - 2004/12/1
N2 - During the last few decades, both policy practices and policy idioms have drastically changed. Concepts such as interactive planning, network management, stakeholder dialogue, deliberative democracy, policy discourses, governance, etc. have replaced older ones such as public administration, policy programmes, interest groups, institutions, power, and the like. Although we recognise the relevance and importance of this shift in vocabulary, we also regret related 'losses'. We particularly regret that the concept of power has - in our view - become an 'endangered species' in the field of public policy analysis. We therefore will develop a framework to analyse power - being a multi-layered concept - in policy practices in this article. We will do so on the basis of the so-called policy arrangement approach, which combines elements of the old and new policy vocabularies. In addition, we draw upon different power theories in developing our argument and model. As a result, we hope to combine the best of two worlds, of the 'old' and the 'new' idioms in policy studies, and to achieve our two aims: to bring back in the concept of power in current policy analysis and to expand the policy arrangement approach from a power perspective.
AB - During the last few decades, both policy practices and policy idioms have drastically changed. Concepts such as interactive planning, network management, stakeholder dialogue, deliberative democracy, policy discourses, governance, etc. have replaced older ones such as public administration, policy programmes, interest groups, institutions, power, and the like. Although we recognise the relevance and importance of this shift in vocabulary, we also regret related 'losses'. We particularly regret that the concept of power has - in our view - become an 'endangered species' in the field of public policy analysis. We therefore will develop a framework to analyse power - being a multi-layered concept - in policy practices in this article. We will do so on the basis of the so-called policy arrangement approach, which combines elements of the old and new policy vocabularies. In addition, we draw upon different power theories in developing our argument and model. As a result, we hope to combine the best of two worlds, of the 'old' and the 'new' idioms in policy studies, and to achieve our two aims: to bring back in the concept of power in current policy analysis and to expand the policy arrangement approach from a power perspective.
KW - Policy analysis
KW - Policy arrangements
KW - Policy innovation
KW - Political modernisation
KW - Power analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=30344468145&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11077-005-0156-9
DO - 10.1007/s11077-005-0156-9
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:30344468145
SN - 0032-2687
VL - 37
SP - 339
EP - 356
JO - Policy Sciences
JF - Policy Sciences
IS - 3-4
ER -