Write a short note on David Easton’s Views on Public Policy Approach.

The policy focus in political science is closely associated with David Easton’s contribution (1965). He provided a model of the political system which greatly influenced the way in which the emerging study of policy (outputs) in the 1960s began to conceptualise the relationship between policy-making, policy outputs and its wider ‘environment’.The main characteristics of the Eastonian model is that of viewing the policy process in terms of received inputs, in the form of flows from the environment, mediated through inputs channels (parties, media, interest groups);  demands within the political system (withinputs) and their conversion into policy  outputs and outcomes.

 

The textbooks, which provided the ‘normal science’ of policy analysis were, for the most part, derived from the fusion of Lasswell, Simon and Easton’s models of decision- making and the political ‘system’(Kahn, 1962).The combination of rational stages (Lasswell’s) and systems approaches (Eastonian) thus afforded a more dynamic framework 

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