Date: 2023
Type: Working Paper
A novel method for studying policymaking: Policy Process Analysis (PPA) applied to the refugee crisis
Working Paper, EUI, RSC, Working Paper, 2023/24, Migration Policy Centre
BOJAR, Abel, KYRIAZI, Anna, OANA, Ioana-Elena, TRUCHLEWSKI, Zbigniew, A novel method for studying policymaking: Policy Process Analysis (PPA) applied to the refugee crisis, EUI, RSC, Working Paper, 2023/24, Migration Policy Centre - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75543
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This paper introduces a comprehensive method for data collection and analysis, which systematically records and evaluates various features of policy debates across space, time, and issue areas within selected policy episodes. We apply this method to the refugee crisis, discussing advantages, challenges, and best practices. Policy Process Analysis (PPA) incorporates into a single framework the constitutive elements of such policy episodes – including actors’ positions and relations, activities taking place in different policymaking arenas and at different levels of governance, which allows for theoretical and empirical synthesis on a large scale. PPA lies at the cross-roads of the methodological approaches of two distinct research fields that have developed in relative isolation from each other: the study of contentious performances and the study of policy change. Drawing from these methods, it relies on hand-coded datasets collected via the mass media to construct indicators that characterise the substantive elements of policy debates, including the participants, their positions, their interactions, their issue-emphasis, and framing strategies. This holistic reconstruction enables the large-scale, comparative study of the policy process from multiple angles at different levels of analysis, both statically and over time.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75543
ISSN: 1028-3625
Series/Number: EUI; RSC; Working Paper; 2023/24; Migration Policy Centre
Publisher: European University Institute
Sponsorship and Funder information:
Funding: The data were collected for the SOLID research project (‘Policy Crisis and Crisis Politics, Sovereignty, Solidarity and Identity in the EU Post-2008’) financed by EU Grant Agreement 810356 – ERC-2018-SyG (SOLID)
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