Article 3 - Vesely. Policy advice as policy work
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Policy advisory system (PAS)
- result of never-ending disputes and compromises among actors with different beliefs and skills
-Stability of PAS is ensured because interaction among actors is routinized and through shared expectations about what the policy advice should provide
Role of policy advisers
- Activities of policy advisers often goes beyond policy advice e.g. negotiating
What are policy workers
-Policy workers don’t see advising as their primary activity, it’s one activity among others.
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2 dimensions to map policy advice within policy work
o Does activity relate to use of values or knowledge about a policy issue
- Scope of involvement in policy making
o Indirect influencing of policy process e.g. by sharing knowledge, opinions, beliefs
o Direct involvement by implementing policy decisions
PAS is unclear about how to explain 2 issues:
- Systems are not always well organized or efficient
- Sub-optimality due to boarder trends, e.g. externalization
-No optimal advisory system because no single criterion of optimality
- PAS is result of never-ending disputes and compromises among actors with different beliefs and skills
Change: analysis of different levels is necessary. There are 5 levels of policy advice:
- Supranational level
- National level
- Level of policy domains
- Institutional level
- Individual level
Components of multi-level policy advice framework:
-Policy advice is most directly influenced by the distribution of power and by the politico-administrative regime
-A policy advisory structure (PAST) refers to the configuration of the actors who provide information, knowledge and recommendations for action to policy makers
-Understanding policy advice is impossible without understanding the people who produce it
-The interaction between policy workers’ characteristics and their institutional contexts influences policy work processes
-Outputs should be distinguished from policy work outcomes
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