Zahariadis, Nikolaos;
Karokis‐Mavrikos, Vassilis;
Exadaktylos, Theofanis;
Kyriakidis, Alexandros;
Sparf, Jörgen;
Petridou, Evangelia;
(2023)
Advancing the operationalization of national policy styles.
European Policy Analysis
, 9
(3)
pp. 200-218.
10.1002/epa2.1172.
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Abstract
While national policy styles have (re)gained academic attention in recent comparative public policy work, the concept still needs a widely accepted operationalization that can allow the collection and analysis of data across contexts while steering away from construct validity threats. We build on Tosun and Howlett's (2022) work and employ a mixed‐methods approach, which relies on exploratory factor analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis. We put forth an operationalization, using Bertelsmann's Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) as proxies, that achieves conceptual clarity and distinctiveness, informational robustness, and statistical power. Ultimately, we construct two composite indicators—mode of problem‐solving and inclusiveness—calculate them in 41 countries and present policy style classifications based on their combinations. We report the distribution of countries across four policy styles (administrative, managerial, accommodative, adversarial) and conclude with an analysis of the clusters, assessments of robustness, and comparison with other national policy style classification schemes.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Advancing the operationalization of national policy styles |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/epa2.1172 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1172 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Authors. European Policy Analysis published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Policy Studies Organization. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
| Keywords: | comparative policy analysis hierarchical cluster analysis Policy styles quantitative policy analysis sustainable governance indicators |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10178469 |
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