University Assignment: Althaus Framework and Policy Analysis (POLI101)

This report provides an overview of the Althaus Framework, as discussed by Althaus, Bridgeman, and Davis (2018) in "The Australian Policy Handbook." The framework, designed for effective policy-making, is applicable globally and emphasizes explanatory and normative arguments. It outlines seven key stages: issue identification, policy analysis, instrument identification, consultation, decision-making, implementation, and evaluation. The framework views public policies as outcomes of political competitions and emphasizes the importance of intellectual rigor, procedural integrity, and willingness to experiment in policy-making. Critics view the framework as heuristic, but the report highlights its practical application in various fields, providing a structured approach to policy analysis and implementation within governmental bodies.

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What is the Althaus Framework?
Althaus, Bridgeman and Davis (2018) in their text focused on Australia, attempts a
discussion on the matters that pertain to the essential elements of the better policy-making in the
matters that pertain to the common public who have been living within the Australian territories.
The framework that was discussed by the eminent authors has been discussed by the author tends
to influence the policy makers all over the world. The framework in discussion tends to put forth
the arguments that tend to be explanatory. The framework also deals with the matters that have
been pertaining to the arguments of the normative types that might help in the policy-making
within the given country. The Althaus Framework further takes into account the matters that are
related to the ideal type policy-making arguments.
The Althaus Framework is known to be used in the matters that are related to the
ensuring of the conditions wherein the policies that have been formulated by the various
politicians tend to make a difference. The framework is also used as an instrument that enables
the effectivity of the governance within the given political territories. The Althaus Framework
tends to implement the various exercises that bear relevance to the effective nature of the
governance that is meted out by the concerned governmental bodies that are active within the
given territorial and political boundaries (Althaus, Bridgeman and Davis 2018). The Althaus
Framework states that the policies are generally implemented within the given political territories
in order to direct some of the public resources in a specific number of ways but not in the other
ways that are generally made available to the public.
The seven major steps that are discussed by the eminent authors are enlisted below.
 Identification of the issues

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 Analysis of the policies
 The identification of the instruments of the policy
 The consultation that is implemented to examine the analysis strength
 The decision
 The implementation
 The evaluation.
The public policies, according to the Althaus Framework are known to be the results of
the various competitions that exist within the political systems that are active within the given
society. The competitions that might affect the public policy-making might are related to the
various ideas, the ideologies and the several interests that tend to affect the political system
within the given territorial boundaries. The frame work suggests that the activities that pertain to
the public policy-making tend to put forth an interaction with the matters that pertain to the
constants within the policies and the particulars that are discussed within the given strategy
(Althaus, Bridgeman and Davis 2018). The Althaus Framework states that the activities that
pertain to the policy-making within the company tends to discuss the factors that are related to
the concerned problems that might be addressed by the discussed policy.
The policy-making within the given governmental bodies are also affected by the
budgets, the laws and the various political circumstances that are existent within the country. The
better policy-making involves certain constants as well (Althaus, Bridgeman and Davis 2018).
These generally refer to the intellectual rigor that is maintained within the various issues that are
constant within the system. The other constant that might be related to the issue that are related

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commitment towards the procedural integrity. The willingness on the part of the governmental
issues is the experimentation on the various issues. The framework further discusses that the
factors that are related to the education through the adaptation of the policy-making activities
within the given government as well as the implementation of the various policies within the
given territorial boundaries.
The critics state that the Althaus Framework is heuristic in nature. The critics further state
that the models that are very simplistic in nature tend to attain failure during their engagement
with the real-life challenges that might be faced within the activities of policy-making. The
various steps that are related to the concerned model help in the matters that pertain to the
implementation of the framework within the various fields.

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References
Althaus, C, Bridgeman, P and Davis, G 2018, The Australian Policy Handbook, 6th edn, Allen
and Unwin, NSW.