International Lecture Series Department of Public Administration and Sociology presents lecture by Professor Philippe Zittoun (University of Lyon)
The Politics of the policy process: how governments attempt to solve unsolvabe problems
Moderator: Professor Menno Fenger, Erasmus University Rotterdam
About the presentation
Far from being defenseless when faced with inextricable problems such as inequality, unemployment, poverty, precarious situations or global warming, governments continuously increase the policy proposals for new action, reforms or transformation. Nevertheless, their inability to solve problems, which is occasionally penalised by democratic voting or by changeovers, never challenges the political system itself. To understand this astonishing political stability within a disordered world, Philippe Zittoun looks at the 'policymaking process' as a political activity which defines, propagates and imposes public policy proposals as a means to 'restore order' within society.
About Philippe Zittoun
Philippe Zittoun is Research Professor of Political Science at LAET-ENTPE, University of Lyon, France. He is General Secretary of IPPA and Chair of the IPSA 'Public Policy' Research Committee. He is also a member of the editorial board of several international journals such as Critical Policy Studies, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Policy Studies Journal, Policy and Society.
His research focuses on understanding the policymaking process and, in particular, on the importance of discursive struggles, argumentative strategies, political aspects and the role of actors.
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