History Matters: Role of Time in Policy Making and Analysis

Udit Pratap Singh Chauhan

doi:10.48001/ijhir.2022.08.02.001

Udit Pratap Singh Chauhan University Of Edinburgh

DOI: https://doi.org/10.48001/ijhir.2022.08.02.001

Keywords: Temporal, Comparative policy analysis, Time, Context, Causal mechanism, Temporality

Abstract

Policies are greatly affected by the dynamic social and political environment in which they are made and implemented. The effects on policies are analysed based on the events that take place around the formulation and implementation of the policy and different political and social impacts are often discernible. The impact on policies is due to the change in “context” and “time” in which the policies are formed and implemented. There exist several independent variables that interact with each other and bring about the changes in policies and their outcome, in this paper these variables are considered as the Temporal aspects. The temporal aspects involved in the process of policy analysis simplify the understanding of the policy formulation and the outcomes as the complexity of the process cannot be simplified by a superficial linear follow-up of the events but has to weigh in the temporal aspects that are involved.

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