Nice, D. State Party Ideology and Policy Making, The University of Georgia, 780-796
In this article, David Nice delves into party ideologies and their role in state policy decisions. Nice uses information gathered from a wide variety of research studies to assess whether or not party ideologies are reflected in recent state policy decisions. One of the studies present in this source was a Cross- national research study which found that, “ideologies of those in power were related to unemployment, inflation rates, income redistribution through taxation and growth of the public sector.” These studies successfully found relationships between party ideologies and government policy making; however, they did not come to the conclusion that party …show more content…
The author aims to use information gathered from many research studies undertaken in a variety of countries, to effectively examine the specific role of ideology in the formation of policy. The studies completed focused on the specific factors that lead into individual beliefs and attitudes. For example, one of the studies explored how individual levels of ethnocentrism influenced policy on a variety of issues such as boarder control and defence spending. This article was useful as the studies presented not only thoroughly analysed the role of ideology in policy making, but also effectively communicated how ideology influences policy making decisions. I believe that the author has partaken in extensive research because, he has looked at both the role of ideology in policy making in a variety of countries and has referred to proper evidence to support his claims. This article has contributed greatly to my research because it has directly answered my research question and has proved to be a highly credible source through it’s evidently thorough …show more content…
In addition, the author aims to specifically look at the role of ideology and power-seeking in the formation of policy networks. In order to achieve this, Henry builds on studies regarding the effect of shared versus divergent ideologies on network cohesion. This specific study tested the expectation that networks are ideologically structured, meaning that those with shared belief systems regarding policy issues, tend to share strong collaborative relationships with those in the network. Therefore, this study suggests that those choices made to engage in those particular collaborative relationships, were driven by ideological similarity. This source was useful to my research because it demonstrated how different ideological views greatly influence the policy making process. However, I do believe that this source had limitations because this study was conducted on a small population of people and needs to incorporate a greater population in order to come to a more justified conclusion. The conclusions drawn from this source regarding the role of ideology in policy making, is that different ideological views play a large part in the policy making process. I believe that this is a source that I could make use of; however, this would not be a source that would form the basis of my research because more extensive research needs to be
In this article, David Nice delves into party ideologies and their role in state policy decisions. Nice uses information gathered from a wide variety of research studies to assess whether or not party ideologies are reflected in recent state policy decisions. One of the studies present in this source was a Cross- national research study which found that, “ideologies of those in power were related to unemployment, inflation rates, income redistribution through taxation and growth of the public sector.” These studies successfully found relationships between party ideologies and government policy making; however, they did not come to the conclusion that party …show more content…
The author aims to use information gathered from many research studies undertaken in a variety of countries, to effectively examine the specific role of ideology in the formation of policy. The studies completed focused on the specific factors that lead into individual beliefs and attitudes. For example, one of the studies explored how individual levels of ethnocentrism influenced policy on a variety of issues such as boarder control and defence spending. This article was useful as the studies presented not only thoroughly analysed the role of ideology in policy making, but also effectively communicated how ideology influences policy making decisions. I believe that the author has partaken in extensive research because, he has looked at both the role of ideology in policy making in a variety of countries and has referred to proper evidence to support his claims. This article has contributed greatly to my research because it has directly answered my research question and has proved to be a highly credible source through it’s evidently thorough …show more content…
In addition, the author aims to specifically look at the role of ideology and power-seeking in the formation of policy networks. In order to achieve this, Henry builds on studies regarding the effect of shared versus divergent ideologies on network cohesion. This specific study tested the expectation that networks are ideologically structured, meaning that those with shared belief systems regarding policy issues, tend to share strong collaborative relationships with those in the network. Therefore, this study suggests that those choices made to engage in those particular collaborative relationships, were driven by ideological similarity. This source was useful to my research because it demonstrated how different ideological views greatly influence the policy making process. However, I do believe that this source had limitations because this study was conducted on a small population of people and needs to incorporate a greater population in order to come to a more justified conclusion. The conclusions drawn from this source regarding the role of ideology in policy making, is that different ideological views play a large part in the policy making process. I believe that this is a source that I could make use of; however, this would not be a source that would form the basis of my research because more extensive research needs to be