My current research focuses on making improvements to the policy cycle (in Australia) through the introduction of policy sustainability assessment of RE policies, prior to policy implementation. In order to determine where such an approach might be practicable across the OECD, I am trying to bring together national public policy making processes. I already have the Australian Policy Cycle (Althaus et al), New Zealand (SSC), The US (LAITS) and the UK (HM Treasury). I wonder if anyone could point me towards the policy making process (usually beginning with problem identification and ending with evaluation post implementation) within some of the other OECD nations? Your assistance is appreciated in improving my research outcomes and future applications.
I am looking for policy cycles across the Asian, Americas and European OECD regions.
Many Thanks.
I recently co-authored an article that may be of limited use to you. Our case study analyzed the problem definition process that led to the 2012 decision to cut health coverage for refugees and refugee claimants in Canada. It highlights the existing policy framework that is intended to guide the development of federal regulations, provides a framework for effective social policy problem definition, and makes recommendations for strengthening this process in future. While it certainly won't answer your question in its entirety, I hope you will find it useful in guiding you towards more helpful resources.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0008423916000020
Dear Andrew,
maybe not the expected genre, but I like to mention the work by the Innovation in Governance research group (Berlin), that foregrounds the practices of policy-making. With their work you can develop an analytical distance to the idea of "cycles" whilst studying how policy cycles are imagined and performed by human, textual and organisational actors.
On a related point, at one point I collaborated with the group, rethinking how scales in environmental policy are brought into reality, how the scalar order between e.g. theory, problem identification, implementation, evaluation, etc can be analysed.
I hope that kind of work provides some generative challenges.
Kind regards,
Ingmar
Article The political duality of scale-making in environmental markets
Data Knowing Governance. The epistemic construction of political order