Breaking the Overton Window: on the need for adversarial co-production

IF 1.8 3区 社会学 Q2 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Evidence & Policy Pub Date : 2023-10-23 DOI:10.1332/17442648y2023d000000005
Elliott Aidan Johnson, Irene Hardill, Matthew T. Johnson, Daniel Nettle
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Co-production has emerged as one of the key concepts in understanding knowledge-policy interactions and is associated with involvement, for example, of users of public services in their design and delivery. At a time of permacrisis, the need for transformative evidence-based policymaking is urgent and great. This is particularly important in highly distressed ‘left-behind’ communities targeted by the UK Government for Levelling Up, which constitutes an attempt to improve the infrastructural, economic, social and health outcomes of less affluent parts of the UK. Often, policymakers regard the transformative policies capable of addressing these crises as beyond the ‘Overton Window’, which describes a range of policies in the political centre that are acceptable to the public (Lehman, 2010). This window of opportunity can shift to encompass different policies, but movement is slow and policymakers generally believe that significant change lies outside. In this article, we build on recent debates in Evidence & Policy on co-production by outlining an embryonic approach to overcoming this Overton Window-based roadblock in evidence-based policymaking: adversarial co-production, which involves working with opponents of evidence-based policy to develop means of persuading potential beneficiaries to support introduction. This emerging approach has been deployed in examination of public preferences with regard to welfare reform, but can be applied to a wide range of policy areas. We outline briefly the history of co-production, before setting out the process by which adversarial co-production was developed. We then describe the impact of adversarial co-production on public preferences on basic income (BI). This enables us to set out challenges and opportunities for those with an interest in addressing our crises, serving to stimulate genuine debate on longstanding assumptions about the limits of evidence-based policy and public opinion.
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合作生产已成为理解知识-政策相互作用的关键概念之一,并与公共服务的用户参与其设计和提供有关。在一个持续危机的时代,迫切需要以证据为基础的变革性决策。这在联合王国政府为提高水平所针对的极度贫困的"落后"社区尤其重要,这是一种努力,旨在改善联合王国较不富裕地区的基础设施、经济、社会和卫生成果。通常,政策制定者认为能够解决这些危机的变革性政策超出了“奥弗顿窗口”,它描述了政治中心的一系列政策,这些政策是公众可以接受的(雷曼,2010)。这个机会之窗可以转变为包含不同的政策,但行动缓慢,政策制定者普遍认为,重大变化就在外面。在这篇文章中,我们建立在证据&;通过概述一种初步方法来克服基于奥弗顿窗口的循证政策制定障碍:对抗性联合生产,这涉及与循证政策的反对者合作,开发说服潜在受益者支持引进的方法。这种新出现的方法已用于审查公众对福利改革的偏好,但可以应用于广泛的政策领域。在阐述对抗性合拍片发展的过程之前,我们简要概述了合拍片的历史。然后,我们描述了对抗性合作生产对基本收入(BI)公众偏好的影响。这使我们能够为那些对解决我们的危机感兴趣的人提出挑战和机遇,有助于激发关于循证政策和公众舆论局限性的长期假设的真正辩论。
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