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The aim of this course is to show how it is empirically possible to analyze the key role of collective actors structured around a policy change program (“programmatic actors”) in the policy process. The proposed method (used in different empirical cases in Europe, in the USA, in Latin America, in Japan…) combines different methods from the sociology of elites (positional, reputational, relational and decisional methods) and public policy analysis (cognitive and decision analysis). It enables groups of relevant elites to be identified, their degree of cohesion to be analyzed, and the power they exert through their capacity to impose the public action programs they support to be understood. Once the trajectories of these actors have been analyzed, a more endogenous explanatory framework for the transformation of public policies can be provided.

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