Kingdon's Policy Streams Research Articles

Policy Change Process of Suwon City’s Participatory Budgeting System Applying Kingdon’s Policy Stream Framework

This study aims to analyse the amendment process of the resident participatory budgeting ordinance of the Suwon City Government by applying Kingdon's Policy Stream Framework, and to explore ways to activate the participatory budgeting system. This study examines the three streams in the Kingdon’s Policy Stream Framework influenced by the revision of the participatory budgeting ordinance and identifies who played a leading role. In particular, this study analyses to resolve the structural limitation of the system and suggests ways to revitalize the system. As a result, it is necessary to audit the political stream of Kingdon’s 3 policy stream in order to legislate a new system such as the participatory budgeting system. The political stream is the most influential in deciding whether to introduce participatory budgeting. It is also important to make a cooperative network among local government, local council and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in order to solve the structural limitations of the participatory budgeting system, such as the lack of professionalism and representatives of the residents.

Kingdon의 정책흐름모형을 활용한 「전라북도 학교자치조례」제정과정 분석

The purpose of this study is to analyze the dynamic enactment process of the 「Jeollabuk-do School Autonomy Ordinance」enacted in 2019 using Kingdon's policy stream model. The stream of policy issues includes indicators of the necessity of legal organization of school autonomous bodies, attempts to enact school autonomy ordinances by each city/provincial office of education, and feedback due to the limitations of the existing school autonomy operation. The stream of politics includes changes in the provincial atmosphere for school autonomy, the emergence and interest of a new administration, and the activities of interest groups in school autonomy ordinances. The stream of policy alternatives includes the proposal of Jeollabuk-do Office of Education, the proposal of Korean Teachers and Educational Workers' Union, the proposal of Korea Federation of Teacher's Associations, and the proposal of private school corporations and principals. These policy alternatives were influenced by policy communities such as teachers' organizations, teachers' unions, and school corporations. These three independent streams were combined as the change of administration became the trigger mechanism. In addition, as progressive policy entrepreneur such as the Jeollabuk-do Superintendent of Education is actively working to urge the enactment of the ordinance, the working-level council for promoting the school autonomy ordinance was held on March 26, 2018, combining these three streams to open a policy window. As a result, the Jeonlabuk-do School Autonomy Ordinance, which has been under legislative discussion for a long time, was finally enacted on February 1, 2019.

Analysis of Policy Changes in the School Record-based Screening Method: Using Kingdon's Policy Stream Model and Topic Modeling

본 연구는 학생부종합전형의 정책변동과정 분석을 통해 학생부종합전형과 대입정책 개선을 위한 시사점을 도출하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 최근 두 차례의 정책변동을 분석하기 위하여 Kingdon의 정책흐름모형과 구조적 토픽 모형을 사용하였으며 정책변동에 영향을 미친 정책흐름을 확인하고 도출된 토픽을 통하여 그 영향력을 확인함으로써 연구자의 해석에 의존하는 이론적 틀의 한계점을 보완하고 보다 실증적인 분석 결과를 제시하였다. 분석 결과 첫째, 학생부종합전형 위축기의 정책 쟁점은 부모의 경제력에 따라 유리할 수 있는 비교과 평가요소의 공정성 문제에서 기인하며 두 차례의 정책변동은 학종의 쟁점을 전혀 해소하지 못하였다. 둘째, 학생부종합전형 2차 위축기의 정책변동이 지난 정책이 적용되기도 전에 이루어진 것은 졸속이며 정책변동-적용-환류를 통한 대입개편이 이루어져야 한다. 셋째, 정부는 정책 추진방식 및 방향성이 정책의 개선점보다는 정책변동의 방식에 초점이 맞추어진 것을 반성하고 교육전문가 집단의 의견에 귀 기울여야 한다. 마지막으로 대입제도가 정치권의 영향에 따라 변동되는 일이 없도록 장기적인 정책연구를 통하여 큰 틀 안에서 법제화하여야 한다. The purpose of this study is to derive implications for the improvement of the school record-based screening method and university admission policies through the analysis of the policy change process of the school record-based screening method. Kingdon's policy stream model and STM were used to analyze the two recent policy changes. By confirming the policy stream that affected the policy change and confirming the influence through the derived topic, the limitations of the framework were supplemented and more empirical analysis results were presented. As a result, first, the policy issue in the declining period stems from the issue of fairness in the extracurricular, which can be advantageous depending on the economic power of parents. Second, the policy change of the 2nd declining period was made before the policy was applied, and policy reorganization through policy change-application-feedback must be made. Third, the government should reflect on the fact that the policy implementation method and direction are focused on the method rather than the improvement point, and listen to the opinions of the education expert group. Lastly, the university admission system should be legislated so that the system does not change according to the influence of the political circles.

Kingdon의 정책흐름모형을 적용한 대입제도 정책변동 분석

본 연구의 목적은 Kingdon의 정책흐름모형을 적용하여 문재인정부 시기에 이루어진 대입제도 개선을 위한 정책변동과정을 분석하는 것이다. 이 연구를 통해 정책과정 개선을 위한 시사점을 도출하고자 하였다. 분석 결과, 첫째, 대입제도 정책문제가 새로운 정책의 창을 열고 정책의제 설정과 정책내용 결정에 중요한 영향을 주었다. 둘째, 정책문제의 흐름과 정책대안의 흐름이 독립적이기보다는 밀접하게 연관되어 있다. 셋째, 대입제도 관련 정책의 창은 선거라는 정치변동에 의해 주기적으로 열린다. 넷째, 정시 수능확대 정책선도자들의 적극적이고 효과적인 역할이 정책의 창의 열림과 정책방향에 중요한 영향을 주었다. 다섯째, 대입 정책과정의 성공과 실패는 대입 불공정성 개선 가능성, 그리고 학부모와 국민 요구의 민주적인 반영 정도에 의해 좌우되었다. 여섯째, 대다수 학부모와 국민의 요구에 따른 민주적 정책 결정만이 정책 갈등을 완화할 수 있었다. 일곱째, 교육정책과정이 명백한 정치과정임을 확인하였다. 이러한 분석결과에 기초하여 ‘교육적 타당성’과 ‘민주적인 정당성’을 지닌 정책과정과 정책연구의 중요성을 강조하였다.

A Study on the Policy Making Process of Act on Support for Work in Parallel with Vocational Training on the Industrial Field : Focusing on the Kingdon's Policy Stream Framework

A Study on the Policy Making Process of Act on Support for Work in Parallel with Vocational Training on the Industrial Field : Focusing on the Kingdon's Policy Stream Framework

A Study on the Policy Formation Process of the Basic Act on the Treatment of Foreign Residents in Korea - Focusing on the Kingdon's Policy Stream Model -

A Study on the Policy Formation Process of the Basic Act on the Treatment of Foreign Residents in Korea - Focusing on the Kingdon's Policy Stream Model -

Reproductive Justice: A Policy Window for Social Work Advocacy.

Reproductive rights are at risk in many parts of the United States. To inspire social workers to act, this article begins by defining and describing the concepts of reproductive rights and reproductive justice. Next, it summarizes threats to reproductive rights in five areas: preventing pregnancy, terminating pregnancy, pregnancy loss, personhood measures, and drug use during pregnancy. Applying John Kingdon's policy streams framework, the article urges more social workers to embrace the current policy window and advocate for pregnant women and others whose reproductive rights are in jeopardy. The article also provides suggestions for ways that social work practitioners, educators, and researchers can act to promote reproductive justice for all.

Analysis of Kentucky's Law Protecting the Rights of Schoolchildren With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: Application of Kingdon's Policy Stream Model.

Type 1 diabetes mellitus is a chronic, life-threatening disorder that affects children of all ages. Based on data from 2008 to 2009, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in the United States, 191,986 youth younger than age 20 require treatment for diabetes, the majority of whom have Type 1 diabetes mellitus. These children require assistance with counting carbohydrates, testing blood glucose, and administering subcutaneous insulin. Establishing appropriate diabetes care models in schools is necessary for children's immediate safety, long-term well-being, and optimal academic performance. Kentucky House Bill 98 was passed by the state legislature in 2014 to allow unlicensed school personnel to assist children with diabetes care. The purpose of this article is to apply Kingdon's policy streams model to an analysis of a state policy allowing unlicensed school personnel to assist children with diabetes care. The article covers potential policy alternatives and concludes with a discussion of implications for nursing practice.

A Study on the Conflict Structure of the Hebei Spirit's Oil Leakage Accidents: Focusing on Kingdon's Policy Stream Model

A Study on the Conflict Structure of the Hebei Spirit's Oil Leakage Accidents: Focusing on Kingdon's Policy Stream Model

A Study of the Integration of Contribution Collection Systems for the Korean Social Insurance Programs - Applying Kingdon's Policy Streams Framework -

A Study of the Integration of Contribution Collection Systems for the Korean Social Insurance Programs - Applying Kingdon's Policy Streams Framework -

A Study on the Factor and Process of National Defence Military Service Policy Change -With Focus on the Kingdon's Policy Stream Model-

A Study on the Factor and Process of National Defence Military Service Policy Change -With Focus on the Kingdon's Policy Stream Model-

The Puzzle of the Diffusion of Central‐Bank Independence Reforms: Insights from an Agent‐Based Simulation

The emergence of an ever‐widening sphere of global public policy is a new reality in a world characterized by the blurring of boundaries between the national and the global; by flows of ideas, people, and commodities; and by new global risks and opportunities. In this context, this article explores the empirical puzzle of the sudden outbreak of reforms leading to central‐bank independence. How can we best understand the outbreak of reforms in the 1990s? It is suggested here that the reforms were diffused in a contagious and uncoordinated manner in a global policy process that may best be captured by Kingdon's policy stream model. We develop an agent‐based model to evaluate the effects of three little‐explored aspects of the diffusion process. These are (i) the likelihood of the outbreak of reform, (ii) the rate of adoption of the reform, and (iii) the time to outbreak. We find that the likelihood of outbreak depends on the saliency of a problem, in conjunction with the length of time that a problem has been on the public agenda. We also find that an increase in the size of the environment surveyed before a decision is made increases the rate of adoption but also the time to outbreak. The more global the information available for agents, the longer is the time to outbreak, but outbreaks unfold much faster.

An exploration of the theoretical concepts policy windows and policy entrepreneurs at the Swedish public health arena

In John Kingdon's Policy Streams Approach policy formation is described as the result of the flow of three 'streams', the problem stream, the policy stream and the politics stream. When these streams couple, a policy window opens which facilitate policy change. Actors who promote specific solutions are labelled policy entrepreneurs. The aim of this study was to test the applicability of the Policy Streams Approach by verifying whether the theoretical concepts 'policy windows' and 'policy entrepreneurs' could be discernable in nine specified cases. Content analyses of interviews and documents related to child health promoting measures in three Swedish municipalities were performed and nine case studies were written. The policy processes preceding the municipal measures and described in the case studies were scrutinized in order to find statements related to the concepts policy windows and policy entrepreneurs. All conditions required to open a policy window were reported to be present in eight of the nine case studies, as was the most important resource of a policy entrepreneur, sheer persistence. This study shows that empirical examples of policy windows and policy entrepreneurs could be identified in child health promoting measures in Swedish municipalities. If policy makers could learn to predict the opening of policy windows, the planning of public health measures might be more straightforward. This also applies to policy makers' ability to detect actors possessing policy entrepreneur resources.

An Analysis on the Change of Communication Welfare Policy: Focused on the Application Mobile Communication ？Device Subsidy Policy of Kingdon's Policy Stream ？Framework

An Analysis on the Change of Communication Welfare Policy: Focused on the Application Mobile Communication ？Device Subsidy Policy of Kingdon's Policy Stream ？Framework

The Rise of the Community-Based Participatory Research Initiative at the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences: An Historical Analysis Using the Policy Streams Model

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach to research that seeks equitable and collaborative involvement of community members and researchers in all aspects of the research process. It has moved slowly into the areas of health and public health research. In 1995, the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) launched the first research initiative at NIH specifying the use of the CBPR approach. The purpose of this paper is to provide the historical record and to identify factors and events that led to the development of the policy creating the CBPR initiative at NIEHS. The study used Kingdon's policy streams model as an analysis framework. The policy streams model explains that policies are developed when three "streams" (problem, policy and political) come together at a point called the policy window. Information collected from key informant interviews and document analyses were coded to the components of the policy streams model. The study documented factors and events in each of the three streams of the model. All these occurred about the same time to bring together the three streams, causing the opening of a policy window. This analysis demonstrates an importance of problem awareness and changes in leadership positions or ideology/mood to bring a policy option to the attention of policymakers, and the importance of a policy entrepreneur to advocate for a particular policy when the opportunity arises. Policy entrepreneurs should be alert for opportunities to take advantage of the open policy windows when they emerge, thereby achieving success in moving policy ideas forward.

Ideas and Interests; Agendas and Implementation: An Evolutionary Explanation of Policy Change in British Local Government Finance

This article develops an evolutionary theory to account for how policies change. As an extension of Kingdon's policy streams approach and Baumgartner and Jones' punctuated equilibrium model, the article sets out the mechanisms which select certain ideas as policy choices, both in the policy formulation and implementation stages of public decision-making. After responding to the likely criticisms of the uses of evolutionary models in politics, the article sets out five conditions for the theory to apply in practice. The empirical section examines the turbulent period of policy for British local government finance, which culminated in the selection in 1990, and then abolition in 1993, of the community charge or poll tax. The conclusion is that evolutionary theory offers more of an understanding of policy change in the poll tax case than other explanations and that researchers may wish to extend these insights to other examples.