The article (by Bainbridge, Potts, O’Higgins, 2011) offers a method for policy network analysis referred to as “Rapid Policy Network Mapping”, which gives insights into relationships and dependencies of policy development in the environmental domain. The resource describes the application of its method to the definition of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the Water Framework Directive in the UK, in which local policymakers and civil society organisations and citizens worked together. This tool should assist civil society in its ability to understand and influence policymaking and implementation. The proposed method facilitates the understanding in a network the relations among policy actors and policy instruments.
Part of interest: The entire article.
Target groups: Policymakers, RPOs