Network Analysis And Governance Model

Since 1970s, Policy network is being the important thesis in the fields of political science and public policy in western academy. Two kinds of approaches of policy network are network analysis method and being as a new governance model. To be a method of policy network analysis, the interpretation of policy network and policy outcome has some limitation. Meanwhile, there is no systematic researching in policy network as a new governance model. This paper focuses on theory studying in these two approaches.This paper has five parts:Part one concludes the concerned theory about policy network and witnesses the researching historical context of policy network.Part two elaborates the policy network as network analysis approach. Firstly, this part introduces two interpretation approaches of policy network and policy outcome; and then analyses the limitation existing in two approaches and constructs the structure-agent interaction methodology and policy network analysis model to analyze the relation between policy network and policy outcome; in the end of this part, the dissertation elaborates the explanation of policy network from the perspective of new institutionalism.Part three is about the part of policy network as a new governance model, including governance theory and policy network governance, three perspectives of policy network governance.Part four is the evaluation of policy network theory, including limitation of policy network approach; the criticism of policy network governance model and the enlightenment of policy network for policy process and government governance in China.Part five is the concluding remarks.This paper elaborates the relation between policy network and policy outcome on the basis of the construction of structure-agent interaction methodology and policy network analysis model, and the new institutionalism perspective of policy network can enforce explanation effect, besides the evaluation of policy network theory. The above is the innovation points of this paper. However, there is unsatisfied space needsto do more research work for the scarce material and knowledge limitation of the author.