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Mini-publics and policy impact analysis: filtration in the citizens’ assembly on social care
IF 5.3 3区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2025-03-12 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-025-09567-8
Lynne Poole, Stephen Elstub

The use of mini-publics to enable some citizens to feed policy recommendations into public policy processes is gaining popularity. However, assessing whether and to what extent mini-publics have policy impact is extremely challenging due to the complexity of policy processes. We make the case for a new approach to analysing mini-public policy impact with respect to an analysis of the journeys made by each mini-public recommendation, with a view to developing a better understanding of their influence within the specific policy context in which they operate. We propose that employing a ‘filtration’ lens enables a consideration of not only which recommendations are accepted, rejected or ignored by public authorities, but whether they are reconceptualised. We develop a framework that enables the classification of the recommendations and their policy journeys and apply it to the Citizens’ Assembly on Social Care, commissioned by select committees in the House of Commons. Through analysis of the grey literature around the case we were able to establish the type of journey each recommendation had undergone. This provided us with nuanced analysis of what was filtered out, where, how, by whom, and why. We therefore believe the framework is a significant addition to the toolkit of those researching mini-publics.

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Understanding EU forest policy governance through a cultural theory lens
IF 5.3 3区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-025-09566-9
Jeanne-Lazya Roux, Helga Pülzl, Metodi Sotirov, Georg Winkel

This study employs Cultural Theory to study perceptions and conflicting worldviews of key actor groups in EU forest policy. Forests are central to different human demands for ecosystem services such as biomass, biodiversity, and climate mitigation. Tradeoffs occur between these ecosystem services, involving the necessity to set priorities. Related to increasing uncertainties inter alia caused by climate change, polarized perspectives prevail in the multi-level EU policy system regarding which evidence, whose attribution, and what optimal governance and management strategies are to be chosen for forests. At the core of these perspectives lie conflicting worldviews related to cultural biases of what is real and right. Through qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with a diverse set of forest policy actors from the EU and member state level, the research delves into their perceptions of EU forest policy, including perceived problems, preferred solutions, and assigned responsibilities, using a Cultural Theory lens. Our analysis distinguishes three groups of actors aligned with distinct elements of Cultural Theory worldviews while acknowledging the nuanced nature of these divisions. Our analysis invites readers to navigate the complexities of EU forest policy, unraveling worldviews and actor perspectives in pursuing informed policy decisions, and may eventually facilitate improved dialogue among actors considering these heterogeneous worldviews.

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Environmental taxation triggers persistent psychological resistance to climate policy
IF 5.3 3区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2025-02-15 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-025-09565-w
Nechumi Malovicki- Yaffe, Boaz Hamairi, Leah Bloy, Ram Fishmen

Environmental taxation is often lauded as an effective tool for changing consumer behavior, but it can also trigger substantial psychological resistance, especially among disproportionately affected groups, such as the Jewish ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) community, potentially creating a broad anti-environmental backlash. In the current study we provide novel empirical evidence for the psychological mechanisms that can drive such reactance and its potential long-term persistence. In 2021, Israel introduced a tax on single-use plastics, only to swiftly retract it amidst vehement political opposition and a change in government. We conducted six rounds of surveys within the Haredi population, known for its heavy use of single-use plastics. Immediately after the tax’s enactment, we found a substantial decrease in “pro-climate” positions. Regression analysis showed this change to be primarily driven by a sense of victimization—being unfairly singled out by the tax for political, rather than environmental, reasons. The economic burden of the tax played a lesser role. Two years after the tax was repealed, however, the decrease in “pro-climate” positions persisted, despite a decrease in sense of victimhood. These findings shed light on the potential negative and enduring psychological and political consequences of environmental taxation. They underscore the importance of addressing underlying grievances to foster genuine engagement with climate-related issues.

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Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats
IF 5.3 3区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2025-02-15 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-025-09570-z
Diego Cerna-Aragon, Luis García

The production of state legibility has been a prolific subject of study. However, most works have not paid much attention to the quotidian labor of the street-level bureaucrats that implement legibility projects at a local level. The aim of this article is to explore the implementation of a social registry system at a local level to understand how frontline workers make the population legible. Instead of taking legibility as an object of evaluation or critique, we pay close attention to the inner workings of bureaucracies at the instances in which the sociomaterial conditions of the population are translated into data. Drawing from qualitative research in Peruvian municipalities, we describe the operations of an algorithmic system that classifies the population for the distribution of welfare. We observed how under-resourced bureaucrats were constrained by regulations and technologies of the system. Paradoxically, to make the system work for their local realities, the bureaucrats had to bend the rules and find workarounds. From this perspective, the making of legibility looks less like a top-down exercise of bureaucratic compliance or a story of domination over the population. Instead, we find actors attempting to maintain a delicate balance between inadequate legal rules, scarce resources, and sociopolitical demands.

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Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes
IF 5.3 3区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2025-02-09 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09564-3
Kai Ruggeri

With growing interest in more formalized applications of scientific evidence to policy, there are concerns about what evidence is selected and applied, and for what purpose. We present an initial argument that scale of evidence could be used in policy decisions in ways that can usefully predict effectiveness of policy interventions. This is valuable given that, as we show using a survey of of 251 policymakers, there is no single type of evidence (e.g., RCTs, systematic reviews, surveys) that is "best" to all policymakers or all policy domains. By simply rating the "level" of studies' size and scope used to inform policies, we show how high levels of evidence were more strongly associated with better (i.e., intended) outcomes across 82 policies. The rate of policies achieving intended outcomes ranged from 38%, when no evidence was available prior to the policy, to 78%, when large-scale evidence existed prior to implementation. Though these findings are encouraging, this piece is largely meant to argue for, not universally validate, a simple approach to assess evidence appropriately when making policy decisions. Instead, we argue that using this approach in combination with other ratings may better serve applications of evidence to achieve better outcomes for populations.

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The politics of experimental policymaking: the influence of blame avoidance and credit claiming
IF 5.3 3区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2025-02-09 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-025-09568-7
Ringa Raudla, Külli Sarapuu, Johanna Vallistu, Kerli Onno, Nastassia Harbuzova

Policy experimentation has been proposed as a key strategy for coping with increasingly complex policy challenges. Despite considerable academic discussion on public policy experiments, there is a lack of systematic analyses of the political dimensions of policy experimentation. In this paper, we advance the understanding of politics of experimentation by analysing how policy actors’ perceptions of blame avoidance and credit claiming influence experimental policymaking. As a theoretical contribution, we outline expectations about how the mechanisms of blame avoidance and credit claiming can influence policymakers’ attitudes towards experiments and which contextual factors are likely to shape these dynamics. In the empirical part, we probe the plausibility of the theoretical propositions by using a comparative case study of Estonia and Finland. We draw upon policy documents and semi-structured interviews conducted with 66 public officials in Estonia and Finland in 2022–2023. Our empirical analysis demonstrates that the mechanisms of blame avoidance and credit claiming play a significant role in politicians’ decisions to launch large-scale policy experiments. Our study also shows that these impacts are mediated by contextual factors like the urgency of policy problems, expected media reactions, public trust, and cumulative experience with policy experimentation.

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Theorizing the functions and patterns of agency in the policymaking process 理论化决策过程中机构的功能和模式
IF 5.3 3区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2025-01-11 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09563-4
Giliberto Capano, Maria Tullia Galanti, Karin Ingold, Evangelia Petridou, Christopher M. Weible

Theories of the policy process understand the dynamics of policymaking as the result of the interaction of structural and agency variables. While these theories tend to conceptualize structural variables in a careful manner, agency (i.e. the actions of individual agents, like policy entrepreneurs, policy leaders, policy brokers, and policy experts) is left as a residual piece in the puzzle of the causality of change and stability. This treatment of agency leaves room for conceptual overlaps, analytical confusion and empirical shortcomings that can complicate the life of the empirical researcher and, most importantly, hinder the ability of theories of the policy process to fully address the drivers of variation in policy dynamics. Drawing on Merton’s concept of function, this article presents a novel theorization of agency in the policy process. We start from the assumption that agency functions are a necessary component through which policy dynamics evolve. We then theorise that agency can fulfil four main functions – steering, innovation, intermediation and intelligence – that need to be performed, by individual agents, in any policy process through four patterns of action – leadership, entrepreneurship, brokerage and knowledge accumulation – and we provide a roadmap for operationalising and measuring these concepts. We then demonstrate what can be achieved in terms of analytical clarity and potential theoretical leverage by applying this novel conceptualisation to two major policy process theories: the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) and the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF).

政策过程理论将政策制定的动态理解为结构变量和代理变量相互作用的结果。虽然这些理论倾向于以谨慎的方式将结构性变量概念化,但代理(即个体代理人的行为,如政策企业家、政策领导人、政策经纪人和政策专家)在变化和稳定的因果关系的谜题中被留下作为残余部分。这种对机构的处理为概念上的重叠、分析上的混乱和经验上的缺陷留下了空间,这可能使经验研究者的生活复杂化,最重要的是,阻碍了政策过程理论充分解决政策动态变化驱动因素的能力。本文借鉴默顿的功能概念,提出了一种新的政策过程代理理论。我们从假设机构职能是政策动态演变的必要组成部分开始。然后,我们从理论上推断,代理可以履行四项主要职能——指导、创新、中介和情报——在任何政策过程中,这些职能都需要由个体代理通过四种行动模式——领导、创业、中介和知识积累——来履行。我们为这些概念的运作和衡量提供了路线图。然后,我们通过将这一新颖的概念应用于两个主要的政策过程理论:多流框架(MSF)和倡导联盟框架(ACF),展示了在分析清晰度和潜在理论杠杆方面可以实现的目标。
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Policy integration in urban policies as multi-level policy mixes 作为多层次政策混合的城市政策整合
IF 5.3 3区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2025-01-06 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09562-5
María José Dorado-Rubín, María José Guerrero-Mayo, Clemente Jesús Navarro-Yáñez

This paper analyses policy integration in the field of urban policies. Specifically, the policy framework on sustainable urban development promoted by various international organisations is analysed as an exemplar combining multi-sectoriality in its substantive dimension (policy goals in different policy subsystems) and integration in its procedural dimension (integration between policy actions across policy subsystems involved). It is assumed that urban policies often take the form of multi-level policy mixes, and that integration involves a process of collective action between different policy subsystems. Based on the literature on policy integration and actor-centred institutionalism frameworks, it is postulated that in the absence of clear indications about the integrated strategy and policy integration capacities in the policy frame, the collective action dilemmas that this strategy entails in local projects will prevail, reducing the possibility of policy integration. The implementation of the urban dimension of the European Union's cohesion policy in Spain between 1994 and 2013 is analysed a total of 82 urban projects, where the integrated strategy is a central element but understood as multi-sectorial objectives rather than a complementarity between policy subsystems. Empirical results show a high level of diversity of objectives across policy sectors and a very low level of integration; specifically, a curvilinear pattern in the relationship between these two aspects. The results highlight the need to include policy instruments and capacities in the policy frame to address the collective action dilemmas that policy integration implies, especially if the policy frame calls for a broad multi-sectorial agenda across different policy subsystems.

本文对城市政策领域的政策整合进行了分析。具体而言,各国际组织推动的可持续城市发展政策框架作为一个范例进行了分析,该框架结合了实质性方面的多部门性(不同政策子系统的政策目标)和程序方面的一体化(涉及政策子系统的政策行动之间的一体化)。假设城市政策往往采取多层次政策混合的形式,一体化涉及不同政策子系统之间的集体行动过程。根据有关政策整合和以行为者为中心的制度主义框架的文献,假设在政策框架中缺乏关于综合战略和政策整合能力的明确指示的情况下,该战略在地方项目中所带来的集体行动困境将占优,从而降低了政策整合的可能性。本文分析了1994年至2013年间欧盟凝聚力政策在西班牙城市层面的实施情况,共分析了82个城市项目,其中综合战略是核心要素,但被理解为多部门目标,而不是政策子系统之间的互补。实证结果表明,各政策部门的目标高度多样化,一体化程度很低;具体来说,这两个方面的关系呈曲线模式。研究结果突出表明,需要将政策工具和能力纳入政策框架,以解决政策一体化所带来的集体行动困境,特别是如果政策框架要求跨不同政策子系统制定广泛的多部门议程。
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Analyzing industrial policy portfolios 产业政策组合分析
IF 5.3 3区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2024-12-07 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09559-0
Carmen Heinrich, Christoph Knill, Yves Steinebach

Industrial policy has regained political attention due to the challenges associated with global market integration, technological changes, and the need for sustainable transformation. However, the lack of a consistent understanding of industrial policy hampers systematic comparisons. This paper develops a novel concept of industrial policy portfolios that captures different dimensions of industrial policy outputs across countries and over time. We illustrate this approach by comparing the policy dynamics in the United States and Germany over the last four decades and show that despite similar dynamics of policy growth, the countries display pronounced variation in the areas and instruments they prioritized.

由于与全球市场一体化、技术变革和可持续转型相关的挑战,产业政策重新获得了政治关注。然而,缺乏对产业政策的一致理解阻碍了系统的比较。本文提出了一个新的产业政策组合概念,该概念涵盖了不同国家和不同时期产业政策产出的不同维度。我们通过比较美国和德国在过去四十年中的政策动态来说明这种方法,并表明尽管政策增长的动态相似,但两国在其优先考虑的领域和工具上表现出明显的差异。
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The future as developmental construct in the work of Harold Lasswell 哈罗德-拉斯韦尔作品中作为发展建构的未来
IF 5.3 3区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09557-2
Ríán Derrig

This review commentary offers reflections on some of the key themes of Douglas Torgerson’s refreshing, perceptive and timely study of the work of Harold Lasswell, The Policy Sciences of Harold Lasswell: Contextual Orientation and the Critical Dimension. The commentary attempts to connect those themes to our present with the aim of making a very small contribution to the work demanded by the challenge posed by Torgerson in the final pages of his book – the pursuit of a ‘strategic developmental construct’ inspired by ‘the critical agenda’. To that end, the commentary examines ideas of the future instantiated in the recent United Nations ‘Summit of the Future’, and concludes by reflecting on possible political risks posed by different styles of hermeneutic method.

道格拉斯-托格森(Douglas Torgerson)对哈罗德-拉斯韦尔(Harold Lasswell)作品的研究令人耳目一新,具有敏锐的洞察力,非常及时:背景取向与批判维度》。这篇评论试图将这些主题与我们的当下联系起来,目的是为托格森在其书的最后几页提出的挑战--在 "批判议程 "的启发下追求 "战略发展建构"--所要求的工作做出微薄的贡献。为此,本评论探讨了最近联合国 "未来峰会 "上提出的未来理念,最后反思了不同诠释学方法可能带来的政治风险。
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