Following Brennan and Lomasky (1993), this actor is described as (i) ‘rational’ (ii) and egoistic (iii) with egoism predicated on self-interest narrowly defined in terms of income or wealth. Both traditional public finance and public choice schools have focused on this ‘representative’ individual. Key to this foundation are the preferences and capabilities of the caricature homo and femina economicus.
The analytical gains of using these frameworks conjointly will also be discussed.Neoclassical welfare economics is the foundation on which the positive and normative prescriptions of public sector economics are premised. Based on policy documents and interview data, this paper will assess the frameworks’ suitability for generating explanations for policy stability and change. This paper explores and compares the insights that the punctuated equilibrium and the multiple streams frameworks produce when used to interpret the reform of the civil service structure of Mexico in 2003. Such strategy, it is argued, is especially suited to explain episodes of public management policy change. Some scholars have proposed an analytical strategy which integrates these two frameworks.
The role played by policy entrepreneurs as catalysts of change is also a central concern in this framework. On the other hand, the multiple streams framework pays special attention to the intersection of problems, policies, and politics where conditions are favourable for policy change. It attempts to find the determinants of stability and change in policy by looking at the progression of issues from policy subsystems to the macro-political agenda where policy images play a key role in promoting change. The punctuated-equilibrium framework focuses on the combination of subsystems politics and decision-making at the collective and individual levels. There are several theoretical frameworks aiming to illuminate the determinants of policy change and stability.
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