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Policy Analysis Redux

Policy Analysis Redux. Policy alternatives:. Where do they come from? Which should you include? How much detail? Must they be mutually exclusive?. Where do they come from ?. Status Quo or improved version Alternatives already on the “on the table”

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Policy Analysis Redux

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  1. Policy Analysis Redux

  2. Policy alternatives: • Where do they come from? • Which should you include? • How much detail? • Must they be mutually exclusive?

  3. Where do they come from? • Status Quo or improved version • Alternatives already on the “on the table” • “Smart practices” from other places (use Mintrom’s comparative institutional analysis) • Tinkered policies by moving your client’s levers or “instruments” (Peter May) • Off-the-shelf Generic tools (e.g., Bardach, Mintrom, Weimer and Vining generic policies) • Creative new ideas

  4. Which options should you include? • Only those that are feasible for your client! • The Status Quo (yes, it is feasible!) • A wide variety that use different instruments • Any that have significant political support • Only the BEST of each genre • No “straw” options or any your client can’t implement • Some that haven’t a chance, but will “soften up” opinions for later adoption.

  5. How much detail? • Enough to distinguish between options • Enough to address concerns, but the least needed to provide the vision • How much detail do you need to understand the impacts? [What are key elements?] • How much time do you have to do analysis?

  6. Do they need to be mutually exclusive? • Yes. You must evaluate the package, not add the expected outcomes of two separate options together. • If any synergies are possible between actions, then yes. • Do you need a sequential nested decision process to clarify choices?

  7. Why start with generic tools? • Generic tools are logical solutions to generic problems (market failures, government failures, institutional challenges • Generic tools have well known strengths and weaknesses that we can anticipate and work to off-set • Generic tools have track records that we can use to predict costs and impacts • Generic tools are the foundation for “tinkering” and “adapting”

  8. Comparative Institutional analysis provides an interesting method for unpacking a package (Mintrom) : • Define your policy problem • Identify the places (“cases”) dealing with problem • Unpack these by identifying the elements: combinations of policy tools, laws, institutional infrastructure, and practices across your “cases” (comparison locations) • Evaluate the relationship of elements to outcomes • Consider evaluating NEW alternatives by repackaging elements that seem to be most effective.

  9. Bardach: Things governments do • Taxes • Regulation • Subsidies and Grants • Service Provision • Information • Structure Private Rights • Affect Economic Activity • Provide Education and Consultation • Financing and Contracting • Bureaucratic and Political Reforms

  10. http://www.businessofgovernment.org/report/performance-leadership-11-better-practices-can-ratchet-performancehttp://www.businessofgovernment.org/report/performance-leadership-11-better-practices-can-ratchet-performance Behn: Things managers do:

  11. Osbourne: Reinventing Your Government • The Core Strategy. Creating clarity of purpose. • The Consequences Strategy. Creating consequences for performance. • The Customer Strategy. Making organizations accountable to their customers. • The Control Strategy. Pushing control down from the top and out from the center. • The Culture Strategy. Changing employees' habits, hearts and minds. http://www.govexec.com/archdoc/rrg96/0996rrg7.htm

  12. Nonprofittools: • Advocacy • Direct service • Grant-making • Education/training • Collaboration/convening • Information provision • Public marketing/social media use

  13. Weimer and Vining (p. 260):

  14. Weimer and Vining (p. 211):

  15. Weimer and Vining (p. 220):

  16. Weimer and Vining (p. 235)

  17. Weimer and Vining (p. 248)

  18. Weimer and Vining (p. 254)

  19. Policy alternatives: The analyst’s job is to hunt down or invent the best possible strategies to deal with the problem and predict their impacts.

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