Data were analyzed, interpreted and explained using Fidler's health and foreign policy conceptualizations [ 20] and Kingdon's Multiple Streams Model of the policymaking process [ 21- 23].
A general inductive approach was used to identify themes in the data, which were then analysed and interpreted using Fidler's health and foreign policy conceptualizations and Kingdon's multiples streams model of the policymaking process.
Where the latter focuses heavily on the traditional biophysical definition of the environment, a holistic systems discourse includes, among others, socioecological, economic, cultural and policy-framed conceptualizations of the environment.
Extensive gaps in data availability prevent the mapping of patterns of deficits, the estimation of trends of key variables, and thereby often seriously compromise efforts at conceptualization, policy design, monitoring and impact assessment.
At the same time the analytical achievements have permitted a wide expansion in the conceptualization of policy targets and in the design of instruments available to policy-makers.
"Foreign policy requires a new conceptualization," Ms. Shalala said in an interview today.
In addition, over the past few years a broader conceptualization of policy mixes for sustainability transitions has emerged which we adopt in this special issue.
Any attempt to study immigrant integration policies requires a particular conceptualization of integration including the normative assumptions that a particular policy is based on.
Despite the growing number of papers published in recent years, an overall conceptualization of parking policy is still missing.
This does not imply a positivist approach to analysis, but a more thoughtful conceptualization of the policy process, that goes beyond 'telling the story'.
