TY - JOUR ID - 3461 TI - From Mid-Level Policy Analysis to Macro-Level Political Economy; Comment on “Developing a Framework for a Program Theory-Based Approach to Evaluating Policy Processes and Outcomes: Health in All Policies in South Australia” JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management JA - IJHPM LA - en SN - AU - Labonté, Ronald AD - Canada Research Chair, Globalization and Health Equity, Faculty of Medicine, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 7 IS - 7 SP - 656 EP - 658 KW - Health in All Policies KW - Evaluation Research KW - Program Theory KW - Political Economy DO - 10.15171/ijhpm.2018.12 N2 - This latest contribution by the evaluation research team at Flinders University/Southgate Institute on their multiyear study of South Australia’s Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiative is simultaneously frustrating, exemplary, and partial. It is frustrating because it does not yet reveal the extent to which the initiative achieved its stated outcomes; that awaits further papers. It is exemplary in describing an evaluation research design in which the research team has excelled over the years, and in adding to it an element of theory testing and re-testing. It is partial, in that the political and economic context considered important in examining both process and outcome of the HiAP initiative stops at the Australian state’s borders as if the macro-level national and global political economy (and its power relations) have little or no bearing on the sustainability of the policy learning that the initiative may have engendered. To ask that of an otherwise elegant study design that effectively engages policy actors in its implementation may be demanding too much; but it may now be time that more critical political economy theories join with those that elaborate well the more routine praxis of public policy-making. UR - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3461.html L1 - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3461_e9de6815a1a7fadc620ba96bbdf3a774.pdf ER -