So there are lovely images of Advocacy Coalition Framework and Multiple Streams Approach (Basic version and with more recent modifications But none that I have found for Punctuated Equilibrium. Someone who knows what they are doing should do something about that gap. Meanwhile, this. Comments very welcome (rude is fine - I dish it... Continue Reading →
The game is rigged, you feel me? (At this point the wife will point out that I am not, in actual fact, a black man from B'more... Sorry "Baltimore"). Anyway, back to game rigging- the word for the day is "Heresthetics" William Riker was one of the leading scholars "positive political theory," or the Rational... Continue Reading →
So, I have been writing cynically about the "smugosphere" - that place where normal rules of performance assessment to not apply because people are Doing Good For The Cause. And I just kind of stumbled on a very very interesting paper by one Wolfgang Seibel; Seibel, W. 1996. Successful Failure: An Alternative View on Organizational... Continue Reading →
"...An explanation becomes more parsimonious than another when it uses a smaller number of explanatory variable while explaining at least as much as its opponent. For example, it is more parsimonious to model the solar system as heliocentric than terracentric, because the former uses far simpler mathematics to account for at least as many planetary... Continue Reading →
Mikler, J and Harrison, N. 2013. Climate Innovation: Australian Corporate Perspectives on the Role of Government. Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 59, (3), pp.414-428. Nothing I have learnt in the last two years of reading a lot (no, even by my OCD*-ish standards) has so much as grazed - let alone dented -... Continue Reading →
So, you adopt just enough of the opposing coalition's rhetoric and even one or two of their trivial policy recommendations (from what the ACF crowd would call the secondary aspects'). And this makes you look reasonable, and the opponents look churlish if they don't applaud your reasonableness. And either way it (probably) takes some wind... Continue Reading →
Lovely 24-ish hours in Bristol, seeing my sainted aunt, and then my oldest UK-friend, whom I have known since 1997. Lots of good beer, good pizza, good conversation. #Aintnosintobegladyourealive Meanwhile, on the journeys to and from and in-between, I read a bunch of policy papers, and have come up with more terms for the ever-expanding... Continue Reading →
Bless the internet for enabling rapid free communication with clued-up people around the world (as someone just old enough to remember having to send letters to people and getting (with luck) a reply two or three weeks later, this is an under-noticed improvement in our lives. I contacted a very senior (and also interesting -... Continue Reading →
Public policy for fun and ... profit? I've been on a major reading binge over the last month or so (Policy Studies Journal, I'm looking at you). Most of that has been around three theories/frameworks/models - Advocacy Coalitions Framework, Punctuated Equilibrium and Multiple Streams. Why? To try to test/extend the Dialectical Issue LifeCycle Model, especially... Continue Reading →
I have brilliant friends. A couple of them are activists, and have turned their brilliant attention to the problem(s) of activism. I learn a lot from listening to these friends. In response to a chapter that I have in an upcoming Routledge book ("On Pathological and Ineffective Activism: What is to be Done?), one friend has... Continue Reading →
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