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What shapes the formation of interstate benchmarking networks? 是什么影响了国家间基准网络的形成?
IF 2.1 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-02-24 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12604
Shuai Cao, Hongtao Yi
Most studies on public sector benchmarking focus on performance indicators, processes, and outcomes of managed benchmarking. This article, instead, explores the formation of spontaneous interstate benchmarking networks among U.S. state agency leaders. Informed by social comparison theory, we first recategorize benchmarking into best practice benchmarking and competitive benchmarking. Then, we quantify two benchmarking networks with a survey dataset and employ the Exponential Random Graph Model to analyze both endogenous and exogenous factors in the formation of both types of benchmarking networks. We find that the best practice benchmarking network has a popularity effect, while the competitive benchmarking network has mutuality and transitivity effects. Both types of benchmarking networks are more likely to form among states with historical policy diffusion ties and similar economic and geographic characteristics. This study contributes to the literature on public sector benchmarking and network research by exploring the factors that influence the formation of benchmarking networks.
大多数关于公共部门基准的研究都集中在绩效指标、过程和管理基准的结果上。本文则探讨了美国州政府机构领导人之间自发形成的州际基准网络。在社会比较理论的指导下,我们首先将标杆管理重新分类为最佳实践标杆管理和竞争性标杆管理。然后,我们利用调查数据集量化了两种标杆网络,并采用指数随机图模型分析了两种标杆网络形成的内生和外生因素。我们发现,最佳实践标杆网络具有流行效应,而竞争标杆网络则具有相互性和传递性效应。这两种类型的基准网络更有可能在具有历史政策传播联系以及类似经济和地理特征的国家之间形成。本研究通过探讨影响基准网络形成的因素,为公共部门基准和网络研究方面的文献做出了贡献。
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Policy convergence in authoritarian regimes: A comparative analysis of welfare state trajectories in post-Soviet countries 专制制度下的政策趋同:后苏联国家福利国家轨迹的比较分析
IF 2.1 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-02-12 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12600
Angelo Vito Panaro
Do authoritarian regimes adopt similar or equal policies? Despite the large literature on policy convergence in democracies, we know little about whether and to what extent authoritarian regimes follow analogous paths. This article argues that similar policy legacy, political and institutional context, and international influences lead to policy convergence among nondemocratic regimes. Analyzing welfare state trajectories in Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan, the empirical analysis finds that the welfare state in the three post-Soviet countries has converged at the level of social spending and the source of welfare financing, while divergence persists in disaggregated levels of social spending; configuration of key welfare programs, particularly in old-age pensions and unemployment; and the extent of welfare state reforms. Overall, the findings provide important insights into the determinants of policy convergence in nondemocratic regimes and yield critical implications for future research on the welfare state's trajectory in former Soviet countries.
专制政权是否采取类似或相同的政策?尽管有大量关于民主政体政策趋同的文献,但我们对独裁政权是否以及在多大程度上采取类似的政策知之甚少。本文认为,类似的政策遗产、政治和制度背景以及国际影响会导致非民主政权之间的政策趋同。通过分析哈萨克斯坦、吉尔吉斯共和国和塔吉克斯坦的福利国家轨迹,实证分析发现,这三个后苏联国家的福利国家在社会支出水平和福利资金来源方面趋同,而在社会支出的分类水平、主要福利项目的配置(尤其是养老金和失业率)以及福利国家改革的程度方面仍存在分歧。总之,研究结果为非民主制度下政策趋同的决定因素提供了重要启示,并对未来研究前苏联国家福利国家的发展轨迹产生了重要影响。
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Alternative policy narratives of the future of climate change: Analyzing Finland's energy and climate strategy and news reports 气候变化未来的另类政策叙事:分析芬兰的能源与气候战略和新闻报道
IF 2.1 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-02-09 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12602
Marjukka Parkkinen, Suvi Vikström
In this article, we examine the ways in which the futures of climate change and the climate change policy process are constructed as narratives—both explicitly and implicitly—in two different yet interconnected contexts that shape public climate discourse and debate: foresight-based political decision-making and journalism. The featured case is the National Energy and Climate Strategy of Finland for 2030. We employ and expand the Narrative Policy Framework to better understand the co-existent, implicit narratives of the future in the contexts of policy and media. We construct two co-existing yet contradictory underlying narratives of the future of climate change and climate policy. Our approach reveals that the prevailing master narrative of a desirable future is challenged by a co-existing counter narrative where policies in the energy and climate strategy prioritize shorter-term policy interests over climate change. Building on these findings, we argue that, in climate policy communication, communicators convey futures through narratives—both explicitly, as descriptions of what is perceived, hoped, and anticipated to happen, and implicitly, as the sum of the parts included and excluded.
在本文中,我们将探讨气候变化的未来和气候变化政策进程是如何在两种不同但又相互关联的背景下被构建为叙事的--无论是明示的还是暗示的--这两种背景塑造了公众的气候话语和辩论:以展望为基础的政治决策和新闻报道。特色案例是芬兰 2030 年国家能源与气候战略。我们采用并扩展了 "叙事政策框架"(Narrative Policy Framework),以更好地理解政策和媒体语境中并存的、隐含的未来叙事。我们为气候变化和气候政策的未来构建了两种并存但相互矛盾的基本叙事。我们的方法揭示出,关于理想未来的主流叙事受到了并存的反叙事的挑战,即能源和气候战略中的政策将短期政策利益置于气候变化之上。基于这些发现,我们认为,在气候政策传播中,传播者通过叙事来传达未来--既有明确的叙事,如对人们所感知、希望和预期发生的事情的描述,也有隐含的叙事,如包含和排除部分的总和。
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Responding to crises in authoritarian environments: Russian think tanks between policy evaluation and state endorsement 在专制环境中应对危机:政策评估与国家认可之间的俄罗斯智库
IF 2.1 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-02-05 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12601
Vera Axyonova
In the literature on policy advice and analytical communities in democratic settings, think tanks are often assumed to be carriers of new ideas that serve as an informed and independent voice in policy debates. However, how much intellectual independence do think tanks have in authoritarian environments? This article tackles this question in a case study of Russian think tanks' discursive responses to two protracted crises: the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. The study employs a combination of deductive and inductive techniques to identify the discursive strategies used by think tank experts in their publications covering the crises. The findings suggest that there are differences in how think tanks communicate crises, which can be attributed to their institutional structures and position vis-à-vis the state. In some cases, the think tanks resort to polarization and discreditation of Western governments' crisis response, while openly endorsing the Russian state. In other cases, they engage in rationalization and more neutral analyses of the pandemic and climate change. However, regardless of these differences, they rarely concentrate on domestic challenges. Instead, they geopoliticize the crises, overemphasizing problematic developments elsewhere in the world, thus shifting attention in the public discourse away from domestic emergencies.
在有关民主环境下的政策建议和分析团体的文献中,智库通常被认为是新思想的载体,在政策辩论中发出知情而独立的声音。然而,在专制环境中,智库的思想独立性有多强?本文通过对俄罗斯智库对两个长期危机(COVID-19 大流行病和气候变化)的话语回应进行案例研究,探讨了这一问题。研究采用了演绎和归纳相结合的方法,以确定智库专家在有关危机的出版物中使用的话语策略。研究结果表明,智库传播危机的方式存在差异,这可归因于智库的体制结构和相对于国家的地位。在某些情况下,智库会对西方政府的危机应对措施进行分化和诋毁,同时公开支持俄罗斯政府。而在另一些情况下,它们则对疫情和气候变化进行合理化和更加中立的分析。然而,无论这些差异如何,它们很少关注国内挑战。相反,他们将危机地缘政治化,过分强调世界其他地方的问题发展,从而将公众讨论的注意力从国内紧急情况上转移开。
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Avoiding the blame game: NGOs and government narrative strategies in landscape fire policy debates in Russia 避免指责游戏:俄罗斯景观火灾政策辩论中的非政府组织和政府叙事策略
IF 2.1 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-02-02 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12598
Tatiana Chalaya, Artem Uldanov
To what extent can nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) communicate policy problems in an authoritarian country, and how limited are they in narrating policy alternatives? This article seeks to develop studies on the application of the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) in Russia, extend our knowledge about the use of narrative strategies in centralized and authoritarian policy processes, highlight certain methodological peculiarities related to the devil–angel shift calculation, and test causal mechanism hypotheses that have not previously been applied to the analysis of policy debates in Russia. The study examines hypotheses based on the narrative strategies (devil–angel shift, scope of conflict, and causal mechanisms) that were used by government and NGO coalitions in the debate about “landscape fire” policies in Russia over the period 2019–2021. The results show that the differences between the coalition's narrative strategies were not as significant as had been shown previously. The government coalition uses a strong angel shift in its narratives and avoids conflict expansion. The NGO coalition demonstrates a moderate angel shift, but with the use of conflict expansion in parts of the narratives. Both coalitions use the intentional or inadvertent causal mechanism blaming the citizens for starting the fires, but differ in employing causal mechanisms when discussing the large scale of landscape fires.
非政府组织(NGO)能在多大程度上沟通专制国家的政策问题,它们在叙述政策替代方案方面又有多大局限性?本文旨在对叙事政策框架(NPF)在俄罗斯的应用进行研究,扩展我们对叙事策略在集权和专制政策过程中的应用的认识,强调与魔鬼-天使转换计算相关的某些方法论特殊性,并检验之前未曾应用于俄罗斯政策辩论分析的因果机制假设。本研究根据政府和非政府组织联盟在 2019-2021 年期间俄罗斯 "山火 "政策辩论中使用的叙事策略(魔鬼-天使转移、冲突范围和因果机制)对假设进行了检验。结果表明,联盟叙事策略之间的差异并不像之前显示的那样显著。政府联盟在其叙事中使用了强烈的天使转向,并避免冲突扩大。非政府组织联盟则表现出适度的天使转变,但在部分叙述中使用了冲突扩展。两个联盟都使用了有意或无意的因果机制,指责是公民引发了火灾,但在讨论大规模景观火灾时使用的因果机制有所不同。
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Introduction to the Special Issue on energy regionalism 能源地区主义特刊导言
IF 2.1 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-01-31 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12599
Kathleen J. Hancock
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Expert opinion and public support of genetically modified food policy: Does deficit model work in China? 转基因食品政策的专家意见和公众支持:赤字模式在中国行得通吗?
IF 2.1 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-01-31 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12603
Li Shao, Meng U. Ieong
To what extent do expert opinions affect public opinion in policy making? While most existing studies were conducted in democracies, experts' influence under authoritarian settings is still understudied. This paper examines how expert opinion and vocational affiliation influence public attitudes toward genetically modified (GM) food in China. Through a survey experiment with over 1600 respondents, we find that experts' endorsement can increase policy support for GM food but that their opposition exerts no influence. Different vocational affiliations do not generate significantly different effects, although endorsement from foreign experts has larger effects than endorsement from domestic counterparts, who have closer connections with the Chinese government. We finally discuss the policy implications of expert involvement in policy making and promoting GM food in China based on the above findings.
专家意见在多大程度上影响了决策中的公众舆论?现有的研究大多是在民主国家进行的,而专家在专制环境下的影响力仍未得到充分研究。本文探讨了专家意见和职业归属如何影响中国公众对转基因食品的态度。通过对 1600 多名受访者的调查实验,我们发现专家的支持可以增加转基因食品的政策支持,但专家的反对则没有影响。尽管外国专家的支持比国内同行的支持有更大的效果,但不同的职业背景并不会产生明显不同的效果,因为后者与中国政府的关系更为密切。最后,我们根据上述结论讨论了专家参与政策制定和推广转基因食品对中国政策的影响。
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The EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism: Shaped and saved by shifting multi‐level reinforcement? 欧盟的碳边界调整机制:多层次强化机制的形成与拯救?
IF 2.1 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-01-16 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12597
J. Wettestad
In April 2023, the EU institutions finally adopted an innovative international climate policy instrument: the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). As the long and winding road to a CBAM has included significant EU‐internal and EU‐external opposition, a “shifting Multi‐Level Reinforcement” (MLR) perspective is helpful for understanding this development. When France assumed initial leadership from 2007, skepticism to the WTO, generous amounts of free allowances, combined with a low carbon price, provided a strong oppositional force. Then, influential elements in the European Parliament called for a carbon border tax, which was subsequently included as a central ingredient in the “Fit for 55” package launched by the Commission, In the decisionmaking process, leadership involving all the previous forces resulted in an institutional reinforcement dynamic strong enough to counter EU‐internal as well as EU‐external challenges and ‘turbulence’. This case shows the relevance of an updated MLR perspective for understanding also other EU processes, taking into account the growing role of both policy packages and trilogues as decisionmaking tools, indicating a possible strengthened role for the Commission also in the decisionmaking phase.
2023 年 4 月,欧盟机构最终通过了一项创新的国际气候政策工具:碳边界调整机制(CBAM)。在通往碳边境调整机制的漫长而曲折的道路上,欧盟内部和欧盟外部都遭到了严重的反对,因此,"多层次强化"(MLR)的视角有助于理解这一发展。当法国从 2007 年开始担任最初的领导者时,对世贸组织的怀疑、慷慨的免费配额以及低碳价格提供了强大的反对力量。随后,欧洲议会中一些有影响力的人士呼吁征收碳边境税,这随后成为欧盟委员会推出的 "适合 55 "一揽子计划的核心内容。这一案例表明,考虑到一揽子政策和三部曲作为决策工具的作用越来越大,更新的多 边关系视角对于理解欧盟的其他进程也很重要,这表明欧盟委员会在决策阶段的作用也可 能得到加强。
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Policy process theories in autocracies: Key observations, explanatory power, and research priorities 专制国家的政策过程理论:主要观点、解释力和研究重点
IF 2.1 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-01-16 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12596
Annemieke van den Dool, Caroline Schlaufer
The policy process frameworks and theories that are currently considered mainstream were originally developed in the United States, before traveling to other countries. Despite their roots in democratic values, these frameworks and theories are increasingly applied to autocracies. Given important differences between democracies and autocracies, this raises questions about the desirability, limitations, and future directions of this development. In response, this article synthesizes findings from studies that apply existing policy process frameworks and theories to autocracies with the aim of assessing the extent to which the theories are, can, and should be used to explain key aspects of the policy process in autocracies. Based on qualitative content analysis of 146 English-language peer-reviewed journal articles that apply the Advocacy Coalition Framework, the Multiple Streams Framework, the Narrative Policy Framework, and the Punctuated Equilibrium Theory to 39 autocracies, we show that these theories help identify influential institutions, actors, networks, ideas, beliefs, and events. The analysis reveals important differences in policy processes between autocracies and democracies. Future research ought to bring existing literature on authoritarianism and authoritarian politics into policy process research to test existing and new hypotheses.
目前被视为主流的政策过程框架和理论最初是在美国发展起来的,然后才传到其他国家。尽管这些框架和理论植根于民主价值观,但却越来越多地应用于专制政体。鉴于民主政体和专制政体之间的重要差异,这就引发了关于这种发展的可取性、局限性和未来方向的问题。为此,本文综合了将现有政策过程框架和理论应用于专制政体的研究结果,旨在评估这些理论在多大程度上可以、并且应该用来解释专制政体政策过程的关键方面。我们对 146 篇英文同行评审期刊论文进行了定性内容分析,这些文章将倡导联盟框架、多流框架、叙事政策框架和动力平衡理论应用于 39 个专制政体,结果表明,这些理论有助于识别有影响力的机构、参与者、网络、思想、信仰和事件。分析揭示了专制政体与民主政体在政策制定过程中的重要差异。未来的研究应将有关专制主义和专制政治的现有文献引入政策过程研究,以检验现有的和新的假设。
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How does the use of evidence in policy narratives change during crises? A comparative study of New York City's pandemic school shutdowns 危机期间,政策说明中对证据的使用如何变化?对纽约市大流行病学校停课的比较研究
IF 2.1 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-01-15 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12589
Nikolina Klatt, Sonja Blum
Narratives play an essential role in fast‐paced policy making that occurs during crises. The COVID‐19 pandemic brought numerous disruptions of normality, including school closures, which were intensely debated in narratives by many policy actors. Two shutdowns of New York City's public school system affected over 1.1 million students. This article investigates how scientific evidence was used in the narratives surrounding the school shutdowns in NYC by analyzing around 160 policy narratives with the Narrative Policy Framework. We ask whether and how the growing certainty of evidence on the new Coronavirus was reflected in the policy narratives in the second compared to the first shutdown. While there is increased use of scientific evidence in the second shutdown stage, this does not reflect an increased evidence base: The evolving use of evidence in policy narratives is mainly reflected in its strategic uses to support a certain policy solution within a blame‐avoidance strategy.
叙事在危机期间快节奏的政策制定中发挥着至关重要的作用。COVID-19 大流行带来了许多正常状态的中断,包括学校关闭,许多政策参与者在叙述中对此进行了激烈的辩论。纽约市公立学校系统的两次停课影响了 110 多万名学生。本文利用叙事政策框架分析了约 160 篇政策叙事,研究了在围绕纽约市学校停办的叙事中如何使用科学证据。我们询问,与第一次停课相比,在第二次停课的政策叙述中,是否以及如何反映出有关新型冠状病毒的证据越来越确定。虽然在第二次停产阶段增加了对科学证据的使用,但这并不反映证据基础的增加:在政策说明中对证据的使用不断变化,主要反映在其战略用途上,以支持避责战略中的某种政策解决方案。
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