ABSTRACT

From theoretical approaches to its incorporation in recent models of policies analysis, the subsystems have gained a prominent role in the international literature of public policies. The objective of this paper is to present the construction of the concepts of subsystems, policy communities and policy networks and check how the most recent theoretical models use these subunits as the "locus" of interaction between different actors, institutions and ideas to analyze the policy process.

KEYWORDS:
subsystems; public policy; policy analysis; policy subsystems