,Begrippen:
Epistemic community = policy community marked by shared political values, and a shared understanding of a problem and its
causes - for example actor
Institutions = the ‘rules of the game’ determining how the government and the wider state operate. Institutions can be formal
structures and procedures, but also informal norms of behavior that may not be written down.
Policy elite = specific group of policy makers who hold high positions in a policy system, and often have privileged access to
other top members of the same, and other organizations.
A school program is also policy
Health policy is inextricably (= onlosmakelijk)linked to politics and deals explicitly with who influences policy
making, and how they exercise that influence under different conditions.
A framework for incorporating politics into health policy needs to go beyond content (although this is where most
health analysts stop) → we also need to know who and how
Power for actors is the result of the interaction between agency (power or capacity of actors to act independently
and to make their own free choices) and structure (the arrangements which limit the choices and opportunities
available to specific actors.
policy is not a precise or self-evident term.
,
, problems can have different and multiple
causes and cover different disciplines = policy
problem