How ideas matter in public policy: a review of concepts, mechanisms, and methods

Marij Swinkels
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The recent ideational turn in political science and public administration implies that ideas matter. Ideas are an essential explanatory concept for understanding policy changes and decision-making processes. The aim of the paper is to specify how ideas matter as a variable in public policy research, providing students and scholars of public policy with a stock take of the current state-of-the-art literature on ideas in political science and public administration. The paper first identifies three approaches to ideas as a variable in the policy process. It then discusses where ideas come from and the dynamics and drivers of ideational change to shed light on the ideational mechanisms underpinning policy processes. Furthermore, it taps into different research methods that can be used to study ideas. Finally, the paper concludes with five lessons for future research endeavours on the study of ideas in public policy.
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思想在公共政策中的作用:概念、机制和方法综述
最近政治学和公共管理的观念转变意味着观念很重要。思想是理解政策变化和决策过程的一个重要解释概念。本文的目的是详细说明思想在公共政策研究中如何作为一个变量发挥作用,为公共政策的学生和学者提供关于政治学和公共管理思想的最新文献综述。本文首先确定了将思想作为政策过程中的变量的三种方法。然后,它讨论了想法的来源以及概念变化的动力和驱动因素,以阐明支撑政策过程的概念机制。此外,它还利用了不同的研究方法来研究思想。最后,本文总结了未来公共政策理念研究的五个经验教训。
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