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Policy analysis in Belgium /
Presents the first systematic overview of policy analysis activities in Belgium. Contributors from both sides of the Dutch-French language border use original empirical data to provide a comprehensive, comparative study of multi-level policy-making both within and outside government.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | International library of policy analysis ;
v. 10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- POLICY ANALYSIS IN BELGIUM
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Tables
- Figures
- List of abbreviations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Editors' introduction to the series
- Introduction: policy analysis in Belgium
- tradition, comparative features and trends
- Policy analysis defined
- The relatively young tradition of the discipline and practice of policy analysis in Belgium
- Characteristics of the Belgian polity
- Trends
- Structure of the book
- Part One. Policy styles and methodsin Belgium
- 1. The policy-analytical profession in Belgium
- Policy analysis in the literature on public policy
- Policy analysis as a profession
- Method of enquiry on policy analysis in Belgium
- Belgian civil servants' knowledge of policy analysis
- Conclusion: is policy work a profession in Belgium?
- 2. Analytical techniques in Belgian policy analysis
- Definition of and trends in policy-analytical practice
- Policy analytical practice in Belgium: techniques, organisations and networks
- Tools at work: taking stock of policy-analytical practice
- Conclusion
- 3. Political control and bureaucratic expertise: policy analysis by ministerial cabinet members
- The Belgian ministerial cabinet
- Inside the cabinet: political advisers and policymaking
- Relations with the administration
- Conclusion
- Part Two. Policy analysis in the government and legislature
- 4. Policy analysis in the central and regional governments
- Policy analysis in the Belgian federal government
- Policy analysis in the Flemish government
- Policy analysis in Francophone Belgium
- Conclusion
- 5. Local planning in Belgium: A myriad of policy styles?
- Policy style and local government
- Local government in the federal state of Belgium
- Local policy analysis in Flanders
- Local policy analysis in Wallonia
- Conclusion.
- Six
- 6. Policy analysis in the Belgian legislatures: the marginal role of a structurally weak parliament in a partitocracy with no scientific and political tradition of policy analysis
- Conceptual and methodological remarks
- Structural features and constraints of parliamentary policy analysis within a partitocratic regime
- Policy analysis resources of Belgian parliaments
- Policy advice in committee and plenary work
- External relations of parliamentary policy advisers
- Conclusion
- 7. Policy advisory bodies in Belgium
- The origin and nature of institutionalised advisory bodies in Belgium
- Role of expertise in institutionalised advisory bodies
- The influence of institutionalised advisory bodies
- Conclusion
- Part Three. Policy analysis by political parties and interest groups
- 8. Ideas as close as possible to power: Belgian political parties and their study centres
- Political party study centres as alternative source of policy advice
- Method
- The diverse landscape of Belgian party study centres: key characteristics
- Policy advice by political parties: nature, process and products
- Conclusion
- 9. Interest groups and policy analysis in Belgium: examining the policy-analytical capacities and practices of prominent citizen and economic groups
- Interest group politics in Belgium: diversity and fragmentation
- How Belgium's most prominent interest groups acquire, formulate and utilise policy advice
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Part Four. Policy analysis and the public
- 10. Public consultation and participation in Belgium: directly engaging citizens beyond the ballot box?
- Policymaking and public consultation
- Defining public consultation
- Consultation, participation and political regimes
- Public participation: a framework for analysis
- A diversity of experiences in Belgium
- Conclusion.
- 11. The role of news media in the policy process in Belgium
- The Belgian media landscape
- The media's role in Belgium's multilingual federal system
- From depillarisation to guaranteed pluralism
- The interdependence between the news media and politics
- Conclusion
- Part Five. Policy analysis by advocates and academics
- 12. Thinking in splendid isolation? The organisation and policy engagement of think tanks in Belgium
- One size does not fit all
- Research design
- A closer look at the policy focus of think tanks and the nature of their policy advice
- Conclusion
- 13. Policy analysis by academics
- Knowledge utilisation in immigration policies: a comparative case study
- Knowledge utilisation in the policymaking process: survey results for Flemish policymakers
- Policy research in Belgium
- Conclusion
- 14. Policy analysis instruction in Belgium
- Policy analysis as a discipline in Belgium
- Policy instruction in academic curricula in the Flemish Community universities
- Policy instruction in academic curricula in the French Community universities
- Policy instruction in the French Community today
- Policy instruction in continuous training
- Conclusion
- Index.