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About pigs?: Decisions, outcomes and project planning
Author(s) -
De Valk Peter,
Sibanda Backson M. C.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
public administration and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1099-162X
pISSN - 0271-2075
DOI - 10.1002/pad.4230060409
Subject(s) - mainstream , process (computing) , public policy , decision process , policy analysis , economics , management science , political science , public administration , computer science , law , economic growth , operating system
At the heart of a misleading conceptualisation of policy practice is what we refer to as the ‘common‐sense’, ‘mainstream’ or ‘linear’ model of public policy. This model represents public policy as a dichotomous linear process, of two distinct but sequential phases. The process begins with a decision or a sequence of activities which culminate in a decision. The decision also constitutes a ‘policy’. Then there is a break. On the other side of the divide is ‘policy implementation’ … the unthinking acceptance of the mainstream model in policy analysis has … important and dangeous consequences (Clay and Schaffer, 1985, p.3).
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