Process Of Policy Change Research Articles

Kingdon의 정책흐름 모형을 적용한 학교 상담 정책의 변동 분석

This study analyzed the process of policy change regarding school counseling using Kingdon's policy flow model. In order to analyze the overall school counseling policy, we collected government reports, press releases, and research reports published by professional educational institutions with public trust, as well as academic papers and press releases, and conducted a literature analysis to draw the following conclusions. The implementation system for implementing school counseling and the flow of policy for the placement of professional counselors are established in Article 12 of the 「School Violence Prevention and Countermeasures Act」 in 2004, which specifies the placement of professional counselors and the composition of a dedicated organization and provides for full-fledged school counseling. The policy has been activated. However, as individual policies are implemented without legal basis, there has been confusion in the performance of roles and duties due to changes in government or replacement of the minister in charge. The results of this study are expected to provide an opportunity to correct the direction of school counseling policy by understanding changes in the flow of goals and attributes during the implementation process of school counseling policy and exploring the process of policy emergence. Through this study, we aim to provide evidence to support the establishment of legislation for school counseling policies.

Optimizing test and treat options for vivax malaria: An options assessment toolkit (OAT) for Asia Pacific national malaria control programs.

Designing policy in public health is a complex process requiring decision making that incorporates available evidence and is suitable to a country's epidemiological and health system context. The main objective of this study was to develop an options assessment toolkit (OAT) to provide a pragmatic and evidence-based approach to the development of policies for the radical cure (prevention of relapse) of vivax malaria for national malaria control programs in the Asia-Pacific region. The OAT was developed using participatory research methods and a Delphi process using a sequential multi-phase design, adapted with a pre-development phase, a development phase, and a final development phase. In the pre-development phase, a literature review was conducted to inform the toolkit development. Data collection in the development phase consisted of core research team discussions, multiple rounds of consultation with participants from National Malaria Control Programs (NMP) (online and in person), and two separate modified e-Delphi processes with experts. The final development phase was the piloting of the toolkit during the annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) Vivax Working Group. We developed a tool kit containing the following elements: i) Baseline Assessment Tool (BAT) to assess the readiness of NMPs for new or improved coverage of radical cure, ii) eight scenarios representative of Asia Pacific region, iii) matching test and treat options based on available options for G6PD testing and radical cure for the given scenarios, iv) an approaches tool to allow NMPs to visualize considerations for policy change process and different implementation strategies/approaches for each test and treat option. The OAT can support vivax radical cure policy formulation among NMPs and stakeholders tailoring for their unique country context. Future studies are needed to assess the utility and practicality of using the OAT for specific country context.

Evidence uptake is only part of the process: Stakeholders' insights on WHO treatment guideline recommendation processes for radical cure of P. vivax malaria.

Health policy processes should be evidence-informed, transparent and timely, but these processes are often unclear to stakeholders outside the immediate policymaking environment. We spoke to 36 international malaria stakeholders to gain insights on the processes involved in the World Health Organization's Global Malaria Programme's recommendations for their treatment guidelines of P. vivax malaria. Four key themes which drew on the 3i policy framework and Shiffman's four factors that influence global and national policymaking were identified to understand these processes. Triggers for policy change and change prioritisation, evidence types that inform policy, effects of funding on decision-making processes, and transparency and communication of these processes to external stakeholders. Results indicate that more clarity is needed on what triggers global malaria policy change processes, a clearer justification of evidence types used to inform policymaking, better understanding of the impact of the WHO's funding model on policymaking and further transparency and improved communication of these processes to external stakeholders is also needed. We suggest that global malaria policymaking could be improved by using the following strategies: ensuring that identified triggers actually initiate the policy change process, expediting decision-making timelines by developing a priority framework for assessing new evidence, adopting suitable frameworks to assess contextual evidence, and increasing the transparency of the role of non-state funders in policy decision-making processes and when publishing new recommendations.

Toward inclusive leadership in meeting linguistic and cultural diversity in language education policy: “not giving up on parents and children”

ABSTRACT The study explores the practices of inclusive educational leadership of local policy makers in a city with a high level of linguistic and cultural diversity (LCD), during a process of policy change. The LCD of the city poses many challenges to managing preschool education. To rethink language ideology toward welcoming LCD, the city’s policymakers adopted an inclusive leadership framework and initiated an inclusive forum comprising policymakers from diverse cultural and professional backgrounds. The study focused on the change process, from an ethnographic perspective, with triangulation of data sources. It involved focus-group discussions, individual interviews with policymakers and classroom observations. The analysis revealed that collective agency enactment was characterized by critical reflections on past professional and personal experience; planning of changes in language education policy; high level of commitment to preschool pedagogical staffs and LCD families; practical steps in facing challenges of LCD classrooms; and future visions and long-term expectations from engagement in the stream of change. The study’s significance is in theoretical and practical understanding of policymakers’ collective agency and their role in creating an inclusive community.

Embedded concepts: Comparative analysis of the meaning of education policies

The study demonstrates that the definition and meaning of education, and by extension of educational inequality, are embedded in countries’ historical, political and social environments, while also responding to exogenous changes and international trends. We comparatively discuss the experience of 4 countries (Norway, Finland, Lithuania and Hungary) in order to unpack the historical underpinnings of the way education is framed in policy documents. Building on that, we review the effects of neoliberal ideas with their universalist dogma that have affected policy making in all cases, and assess to what extent the meaning of education was decoupled from its historical framework. Our findings are relevant for understanding not only the process of policy change, but in particular how the meaning of concepts within educational policy change over time. We suggest that embedded concepts carry meaning that has evolved over time and became strongly entangled with the country’s history and culture, while prevailing ideologies (neoliberalism and in the case of Hungary that of neoconservatism) also generate considerable effects on education policies.

Litigating Policy Drift: Frozen Categories and Thresholds in Court

The combination of rigid policy rules with shifting political, economic, and social environments can produce drift: policy change without formal modification. We know much about the political origins and consequences of drift but little about the legal battles that accelerate or impede it. I identify two distinct forms of policy rigidity that generate drift: interval freezing and categorical freezing. Drawing from recent and historical cases encompassing voting rights, racial discrimination, religious conscience protections, and other hot-button issues, I argue that drifting policies possess several sources of legal resilience: injuries are difficult to identify; judges can be persuaded of the merits of restraint, textual formalism, and bright-line rules; and policy makers plausibly deny any intentional action in pursuit of controversial outcomes. Drift is not an automatic and unremarkable process of continual policy change but rather the outcome of high-stakes political and legal contestation over how rigid policy thresholds and categories should be adapted to meet shifting conditions.

An Analysis of the Policy Change from One-Child to the Universal Two-Child in China -- Based on the Theories of the Advocacy Coalition Framework

In the early 20th century, China gradually adjusted its family planning policy due to the unbalanced population structure. From the selective two-child policy in 2013 to the universal two-child policy in 2016, China ended the one-child policy that had lasted for decades. In fact, after the implementation of the selective two-child policy, it has always been a hot topic of public debate. However, the government has been cautious about this issue and has yet to make a clear statement. After much debate, the universal two-child policy was introduced. The existing literature mainly analyzes the reason and purpose of introducing the two-child policy but rarely analyzes the policy agenda setting in the process of policy change. Therefore, this paper will analyze Chinas fertility system based on the agenda-setting processs internal mechanism. As the leading theory of agenda setting, the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) helps explain the causal relationship between the policy of one child and the policy of universal two-child policy in China; this provides a new perspective for understanding Chinas general and significant policy changes. Therefore, this paper will analyze the internal logic and the dynamic mechanism of the process of two-child policy change and assess the interpretation limits of the Advocacy Coalition Framework in the policy process in China.

Locating the Process of Policy Change to Empower Youth Care Leavers as Inheritors of State Property in India

To ensure the continuum of care to be sustainable and of participatory quality for orphaned/ abandoned children and youth without parental care or those residing in institutional care, there is an urgent requirement of policy shift and extension in the aftercare of the youth sphere. These children must be conferred with rights-based privilege and responsibilities by the federal government in the management of state resources and property as their guardians and carers. This policy and programme shift would formally recognise these youth care-leavers (YCLs) as wards of state, provide them with employment and income sources and grant them legal inheritance rights to public property. This policy reform entails provision of legal identity on the care-leavers as state's children, prior training in vocational skills, harnessing of life-skills, and management capabilities and linking them to public institutions for life beyond aftercare. The authors advocate for the states of India to widen their scope and include 'those in care of the State' as leaders and change agents in resource management through a proposed right to inheritance. This would pave the way for inclusion and equality of the marginalised and stigmatised population cohorts, in this case the YCLs, and yield demographic dividend for the country.

Multi-directional communication between decision makers and environmental health researchers: a qualitative inquiry

ABSTRACT It has been three decades since key leaders gathered to pave a path toward healthier and more just environments and recommendations were made to improve communication between scientists and community stakeholders who can influence decision making. Since that time, community engaged research has flourished while building the capacity of researchers to engage in the work of making change to those environments has lagged. The purpose of this study was the development of guidelines to inform interactions between researchers and decision makers and influencers who participate in the policy change process. This community engaged, pragmatic and iterative inquiry includes insight from a review of existing resources and key informant interviews. Resulting guidelines were piloted, and formative evaluation by community stakeholders informed and resulted in refinement to the guidelines. Strategies for communicating and disseminating scientific evidence are presented as well as tactics that sensitise researchers to the nuances of policy makers’ realities so they may serve as a resource for dealing with complex information and decisions. We provide tactics and archived resources in an on-line toolkit that we have cultivated over time to foster effective communication between scientists and those who have a stake in ensuring that decisions are evidence informed.

Addressing the Implication of the Construction 4.0 Policy in Malaysia

The rise of digitalization is prompting governments to reconsider their strategies due to challenges faced by industries during this transition. Governments have prioritized Industry 4.0, implementing large-scale policies to enhance productivity, competitiveness, and workforce skills. However, understanding the complex process of policy change poses difficulties in driving necessary transformations. This research introduces the Kaleidoscope Model, which offers a roadmap for policymakers to perform effective changes with the moderating effect – challenges faced. The study employs document analysis and semi-structured interviews for qualitative data through content analysis. Results highlight that Policy Adoption and Policy Implementation notably influence the evaluation of the Construction 4.0 policy's effectiveness. Interestingly, the final model doesn't show a clear link between the Kaleidoscope Model and policy evaluation due to moderating effects. This research expands political science by aiding the implementation of the Construction 4.0 policy, providing guidelines for policymakers and construction stakeholders. By embracing advanced technologies, the construction industry's dynamics are transformed to align with the goals of the policy. Keywords: Construction 4.0 Policy; Construction Industry; Implication; Malaysia; Policy Change

Unraveling the European Agricultural Policy Sustainable Development Trajectory

Amidst growing concerns about the impact of agriculture on the environment, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been overhauled to prioritize sustainable rural development in European agriculture. Based on this line of thought, the present contribution delves into the details of the CAP’s shift, focusing on the main environmental concerns faced in the policy-making framework. Grounded in a political science perspective, the current study looks at how environmental and climate change concerns were gradually elevated inside the CAP’s policy-making framework and how they helped create the “green architecture” for European agriculture. Examining the process of policy change under the lens of historical institutionalism and neo-institutionalism within the multilevel governance framework of the European Union (EU), the key role played by the gradual introduction of measures aimed at promoting measurable environmental criteria and climatic targets is highlighted. For instance, measures aimed at preserving carbon-rich soils and enhancing water resources can have positive impacts on the environment. However, these measures were also recognized to increase the cost of production for the European farmers, who faced serious difficulties in adjusting to the new framework. Within this context, this research delves into the roles played by two additional fundamental entities: the consumer and environmental activism. Additionally, the study underscores the EU’s commitment to addressing climate change and sustainable development challenges and how conditionality is being used to link funding to results. Upon analyzing the CAP’s shift, the reflection of a more flexible and rational approach is argued to be embodied by the new policy architecture. By incorporating both CAP pillars, encouraging collaboration with compatible policies, and allowing for greater adaptability in response to the unique circumstances and objectives of each member state, the CAP is taking significant steps towards sustainability and climate action. These insights into the significance and implications of the CAP’s shift towards sustainability offer valuable recommendations for future policy developments, emphasizing the need to balance environmental concerns with the needs of farmers and other stakeholders.

초점사건 이후의 정책변동에 관한 연구

This study analyzes policy changes in response to COVID-19. Following the discovery of the first domestic case on January 20, 2020, the infectious disease crisis alert was raised from “watch” to “caution” to “warning”. This study classifies COVID-19 as a focal event and uses Birkland's ERPL model to analyze the process of policy agendization and policy change after the event. The results of the analysis show that, first, the focal event significantly increased the number of media reports at each stage of the epidemic crisis warning. Second, collective mobilization took place through the formation of the National Assembly Special Committee on COVID-19, the Health and Welfare Committee, and government expert group meetings. Third, the Special Committee as well as the standing committee discussed some proposals. Finally, some amendments were passed by the National Assembly. In conclusion, this study found that media coverage of the focal event of COVID-19 had a significant impact on policy changes.

Policy Network Analysis on the Policy Change Process of Survival Swimming Education

Policy Network Analysis on the Policy Change Process of Survival Swimming Education

The multiple streams framework and forest policy change process in Ghana

The multiple streams framework and forest policy change process in Ghana

Evolution of The Policy For The Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage In Xinjiang

This paper composes the policy change process of intangible cultural heritage protection in Xinjiang, starting from the real problems faced by Xinjiang, reflecting the policy change process objectively and realistically, proposing a De- ideologization research perspective, and expanding the academic research on intangible cultural heritage in Xinjiang. By compiling the policy changes in the protection of intangible cultural heritage in Xinjiang and sorting out the world-class, national, and autonomous lists of intangible cultural heritage in Xinjiang, this paper draws the following conclusions: First, from a longer historical process, the policy changes in the protection of intangible cultural heritage in Xinjiang can be roughly divided into four stages: the lack of attention before the reform and opening-up period, the initial attention during the early reform and opening-up period, and the gradual attention during the exploration period of the reform and opening-up period. The first stage is the lack of attention before the reform and opening up, the initial attention at the beginning of the reform and opening up, the gradual attention at the exploration period of the reform and opening up, and the high attention at the period of systematic standardization and protection. Second, the intangible cultural heritage protection in Xinjiang is characterized by large regional differences, concentrated in Yili, Kashgar, Tacheng, Bayin, and other regions; the types are mainly folk music and traditional dance.

Education Policy Transfer and Policy Change: Examining the Case of the National Assessment and Examination Center of Georgia

Policy change is an integral part of the modern education policymaking process. Policy changes can be done with different tools, one of which lies in policy transfer. The cons and pros of the education policy change and transfer can be seen comprehensively in post-socialist states, as the education system changed fundamentally in line with transferring policies and its aims, content, and instruments. The article deals with the process of education policy transfer and change based on the National Assessment and Examination Center (NAEC) case of Georgia. Based on the orthodox framework proposed, elaborated with the policy change concept, the article tries to determine the links between policy change and policy transfer and to identify facilitating and hindering factors of education policy change in the case of NAEC. Results show that all hindering factors are more or less linked to Soviet Inertia and post-soviet heritage: societal fears and pressure and the supra-centralization way of policymaking slow down the path of education policy transfer. However, if political, financial, and organizational support, both from outside and inside the country, coincides, it is more likely that education policy transfer and change to be successful. The article's findings can benefit the education policy theory in terms of developing and criticising the proposed assumptions, focusing on either post-soviet education transformation or policy administration.

카자흐스탄 의무의료보험제도 도입 과정 연구

In November 2015, Kazakhstan introduced the “Compulsory Social Health Insurance System (the System) in the social insurance format,” first among the Central Asian countries, including Russia. By introducing the system, the country shifted from the previous government-led medical insurance system that had originated from the era of the former Soviet Union to that in the “social insurance format.” Under the new system, every citizen pays health insurance premiums and bears the collective responsibility for public health. The process of introducing the System was quite abrupt, which was possible because Kazakhstan is an authoritative nation where the president of the country exerts enormous power. In this regard, this study alters and modifies Kingdon's multiple streams framework model, which is useful for analyzing such an abrupt process of policy change by period, and applies the revised version as the analysis framework. The analysis period was classified into three periods based on the national mood, the presence and direction of policies, etc. In addition, the intensity of the three streams(problems, politics and policies), and the extent of the policy entrepreneur’s role were set as the specific components of the analytical framework. As a result of the analysis, the policy change succeeds in the third period(Jan. 2014-Jan.2020). The results confirmed that when the aforementioned model is applied, policy entrepreneurs played the most important role in the policy change process in Kazakhstan for the introduction of the compulsory social health insurance system. Nazarbayev, a policy entrepreneur, first recognized the necessity of improving the public health budget indicators, which had been deteriorating since 2010, from the perspective of the flow of policy problems. Based on his realization, Nazarbayev tried to strengthen the country's financial soundness by resolving the identified policy problems and further, he intended to achieve the advancement and modernization of the country. Aggressive and enthusiastic efforts and firm and decisive willingness of the policy entrepreneur finally led to the successful policy change. Consequently, the System was established and implemented nationwide in Kazakhstan from January 2020, starting with partial implementation in July 2017.

Post-Pandemic Greenness? How Central Banks Use Narratives to Become Green

Suggested only a few years ago, green central banking has received a new impetus with the central bank interventions implemented in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Several central banks, with the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England (BoE) being prominent examples, have stepped up their public communication on this issue in an effort to explain and justify their planned or ongoing policy actions. Carefully recorded and easy to find, these public communication messages are a rich source of insight into the process of monetary policy formation. In this article, we analyze the messages from two central banks, with the primary objective of identifying the narratives they use (if any) and describing the key features of these narratives, thus shedding new light on an ongoing process of policy change. A secondary objective of the article is to contribute to the growing literature related to the use of narratives in public policy by studying narratives in monetary policy through qualitative means, an approach that, to date, has received relatively little attention from scholars. To this end, we discuss two expectations related to the use of policy narratives derived from the literature. Thus, we hope to show how the two central banks devise and deploy narratives to help implement an unprecedented turnaround in monetary policy.

Policy Change in ‘Local Lifelong Education Promotion Project’ from the Perspective of the Multiple Streams Framework

As of 2021, 180 metropolitan and basic local governments have been designated as lifelong learning cities through the ‘Local Lifelong Education Promotion Project’, which the Ministry of Education has been promoting for over 20 years, starting with the designation of lifelong learning cities in 2001. In the context of inauguration of government and change of administration and the requirements of international organizations, the need for policy revision and improvement through analysis of the policy change process of the ‘Local Lifelong Education Promotion Project’, which has established lifelong learning cities, is emerging. This study applied Kingdon's(1984) Multiple Streams Framework, which is useful to analyze the policy decision process in an uncertain situation, to analyze the policy change process of the‘Local Lifelong Education Promotion Project', the problem stream, the policy stream, politics stream, policy window, and policy entrepreneurs. As a result of the study, it was found that the upgrading of the lifelong education bureau within the Ministry of Education and the establishment of the 4th lifelong education promotion basic plan policy in conjunction with the government change influenced the agenda decision through the flow of politics. The window of policy was confirmed three times: the UNESCO Lifelong Learning City Policy in the 1970s, the revision of the Lifelong Education Act in 2000, and the entire revision of the Lifelong Education Act in 2007. This study examined the key policies that contribute to the promotion of lifelong education in Korea, and based on the understanding of the policy change and formation process of the project, implications for the sustainable development of lifelong learning cities were suggested.

State of care for EU mobile workers' rights in the Dutch meat sector in times of, and beyond, COVID-19

PurposeWith a focus on the position of EU mobile workers in the Dutch meat industry, this article discusses the multi-level State efforts to enhance protection of workers who experienced limited protection of existing State and private enforcement institutions. The COVID-19 pandemic, with virus outbreaks at Dutch meat plants, fuelled public and political will to structurally improve these workers' precarious work and living conditions. Yet, the process of policy change is slow. The authors show it is the gradual transformation in the institutional environment that the State needs to counter to become more protective for EU mobile workers.Design/methodology/approachUsing the gradual institutional change approach and the concept of State ignorance, the authors examine State responses drawing on interviews with expert stakeholders in the public and private domain, public administration records and newspaper articles.FindingsThrough knowledge creation, boosted social dialogue mechanisms, enhanced enforcement capacity and new housing legislation, the Dutch State focuses on countering gradual institutional change through which existing institutions lost their effectiveness as protectors of EU mobile workers. The organization of work is, nevertheless, not (yet) fundamentally addressed with tighter public legislation.Originality/valueThe findings contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the role of the State as multifaceted actor in institutional change processes towards increased protection for EU mobile workers.