… much about the policy process by cataloguing the policy world into different types of
network, the approach will not, alone, take us much further. Policy network analysis began as a …

… the career of the policy network concept in influential varieties of policy network theory, past
… the main components of the generic policy network concept with which these theories have …

… Although we value this critique, we remain reluctant to abandon policy community/policy
network analysis for three reasons. First, as noted above, horizontal, co-ordinating governing …

… for analysis using the policy network model. In doing so, it will describe policy network theory
and competing models, placing these in the context of British policy making and a historic …

… , are not necessarily handled by one policy network, we can … policy community. Fourthly,
the distinction between community and network admits of the possibility that members of a policy …

… policy network theory is a theory of policy change in that it specifies the proximate causal
mechanism of policy … in which these network variables can be influenced by other variables. …

… - pluralism and corporatism - and argues for reserving the term policy network as a generic
label embracing different types of network relationship. This piece thus attempts to record the …

… The policy outcome is the dependent variable, while policy … policy. Marsh and Smith thus
combine macro-, meso- and micro-levels of analysis to examine policy network effects on policy …

… Introduction: Metaphors and Models in Policy Network Analysis Policy network theory has
become a major approach to the study of public policy making in Canada and elsewhere.…

… of the concept network is to pay more attention to the dynamics of policy making. In this …
character of policy processes. Second, the concept network stresses the context of policy making, …