Sustainable reforms and realising human rights will take place in many ways, including policy instruments/processes. In this lecture we will introduce a number of frameworks for undertaking prospective (in the future) and retrospective (in the past) policy analysis. The models we will focus on are:

The policy cycle (the policy process)
The streams model (agenda setting)
The policy triangle (context, content, process, actors)

To bring these to life, we will use real world examples.

SLIDES

Edited article from The Guardian we'll look at in class.

Reading:

Buse et al Making health policy, chapters 1 and 4 (These are short, and really accessible chapters introducing the above frameworks, within an introduction to policy analysis - the book is focused on health, but the ideas are drawn from many disciplines and are transferable to any policy area)

Cairney, pp. 11-15, 33-36, 53-59, 101-102 (super short introductions with tonnes of references if this interests you and you want to dig deeper) https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-030-66122-9.pdf