{"tema_id":"351","string":"Policy Cycle","created":"2024-10-09 21:46:26","code":"","modified":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","notes":[{"@type":"Scope note","@lang":"en-EN","@value":"The policy cycle framework originates from the idea of organizing and ordering the complexity of policymaking. It is a heuristic tool through which different stages of the ongoing and never-ending dynamics of policy processes can be segmented and then analyzed.\nThe policy cycle \u2013 also called the \u201cstages approaches to policy process\u201d (De Leon, 1999) \u2013 does not have any explanatory relevance and is thus not at the theoretical core of public policy (where there is a richness of different theoretical frameworks). However, it is a powerful conceptual tool to simplify and make \u201cworkable\u201d the complexity of policymaking.\nOverall, it holds a relevant descriptive capacity that is still useful, despite many critics having underlined that it risks oversimplifying the interconnected and intertwined density of the policy process flux.\nThe cycle is usually divided into five stages:\n\nagenda setting,\nformulation,\ndecision-making,\nimplementation, and\nevaluation.\n "},{"@type":"Bibliographic note","@lang":"en-EN","@value":"Capano, G., Pritoni, A. (2020). Policy Cycle. In: Harris, P., Bitonti, A., Fleisher, C., Skorkj\u00e6r Binderkrantz, A. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-030-13895-0_69-1 "}]}