Framing mechanisms: the interpretive policy entrepreneur’s toolbox

The Development of Public Policies to Address Non-communicable Diseases in the Caribbean Country of Barbados: The Importance of Problem Framing and Policy Entrepreneurs

Background Government policy measures have a key role to play in the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). The Caribbean, a middle-income region, has the highest per capita burden of NCDs in the Americas. Our aim was to examine policy development and implementation between the years 2000 and 2013 on NCD prevention and control in Barbados, and to investigate factors promotin...

Framing Policy Debates in the European Union

Policy for access: Framing the question

Five years after the ‘96 Telecommunications Act, we still find precious little local facilities-based competition. The infrastructure for local broadband access is also substantially behind expectations. In response there are calls in Congress and even from the FCC for new legislation to “free the Bells.” However, the same ideology drove policy, not just five years ago, but also almost twenty y...

Policy Options for Financing Rural Entrepreneurs

Economists, policy entrepreneurs, and health care reform.

Economists would have formulated several aspects of the health care reform debate differently than policy entrepreneurs did. Economists would have questioned whether health care costs must be contained and whether either competition or global budgets were a "magic bullet" for doing so. They also would have emphasized the distortive costs of subsidies and taxes necessary to reach universal cover...