Choosing the Right Approach to Public Policy Making in Different Environments: A Meta-Synthesis Study

Nowadays, Public Policy Knowledge has been faced many new approaches including adaptive policy approach, public policy network approach, closed innovation diffusion policy approach & open innovation diffusion policy approach. The ability to choose the right approach between adaptive policy approach, public policy network approach, closed innovation diffusion policy approach & open innovation diffusion policy approach in this condition is very important

Proposing a contingency framework to choose the right approach between Stage process model, policy network approach, policy innovation diffusion and adaptive approach

Using inductive qualitative Theory-generating meta-synthesis (Finfgeld-connett, 2018), extracting data, sampling, with-in study memoing, Cross-study memoing and finally depicting dynamic relationships

Three variables including predictability, participation and innovativeness can define applicability conditions of each approaches including stage, network, innovation diffusion and adaptive

The applicability of each approach is not general and each of them has a unique condition to use. Although, Stage model has been critiqued by scholars but it has its particular applicability and other approaches have limitations to