Pub Date : 2021-11-11DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2021.1999838
D. Olanya, Anne Grethe Julius Pedersen, I. Lassen
ABSTRACT This article explores discursive struggles between ideologies of nature development and nature conservation discourses in the context of the Murchison Falls Conservation Area (MFCA) in Uganda. Based on the concepts of critical discourse moments and discourse coalitions, the article offers a nuanced perspective on nature policy in a specific, though not unique, context. The purpose of studying tensions between different positions in nature policy from a critical discourse perspective is to increase the awareness of the role of discourse coalitions in the struggles. Thus, the study aims at enhancing the understanding of different interests by creating awareness about the conflict potential regarding the MFCA.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-10DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2021.2000453
Dimitri Courant
ABSTRACT Randomly selected deliberative mini-publics (DMPs) are on the rise globally. However, they remain ad hoc, opening the door to arbitrary manoeuvre and triggering a debate on their future institutionalization. What are the competing proposals aiming at institutionalizing DMPs within political systems? I suggest three ways for thinking about institutionalization: in terms of temporality, of legitimacy and support, and of power and role within a system. First, I analyze the dimension of time and how this affect DMP institutional designs. Second, I argue that because sortition produces ‘weak representatives’ with ‘humility-legitimacy’, mini-publics hardly ever make binding decisions and need to rely on external sources of legitimacies. Third, I identify four institutional models, relying on opposing views of legitimacy and politics: tamed consultation, radical democracy, representative klerocracy and hybrid polyarchy. They differ in whether mini-publics are interpreted as tools: for legitimizing elected officials; to give power to the people; or as a mean to suppress voting .
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Pub Date : 2021-10-18DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2021.1991417
Afsoun Afsahi
take the form of several other forms of ideational power, like frames and paradigms. Miller later lays out a distinction between narratives and stories, with little clear demarcation separating the two. This problem points to a larger issue within this approach: speaking past the mainstream of policy studies. While the philosophical gap between the Narrative Politics approach, which Miller bases in alethic relativism (123), and positivist approaches to policy studies is wide, engaging more with certain concepts rather than throwing them out with the bathwater could lead the two approaches to speak to one another more readily. For example, it is unclear how the concept of ‘cultural evolution’ is a significant improvement from related concepts like policy change or policy learning. Miller concludes the book with an examination of the value of the Narrative Politics approach and a discussion of the ultimate role of the scholar curator. The stated goals of the approach, to catalog competing truth claims and better understand the other, are laudable and important. Now, more than ever, we should be making concerted efforts to better understand the motivations and meanings behind narratives that we may find distasteful and make efforts to engage with those with whom we disagree. But should scholars not seek to do more than catalog competing narratives? Without a firm basis for making truth claims of our own, how can we speak back to the narratives of oppressive forces? Is the curator not ultimately as detached from their subject as the scientist is from hers? Ultimately, Narrative Politics in Public Policy is a thought-provoking and compelling addition to the literature on the politics of storytelling, and the evolution of cannabis policy in the United States. The Narrative Politics approach has the capacity to contribute to our knowledge of various other policy fields, and I hope that other scholars will take up the approach and develop it.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2021.1991822
V. Lagesen, Ivana Suboticki
ABSTRACT Local leaders in academia have been perceived as resisting the role as change agents for gender balance. Employing a concept of voices inspired by Bakhtin, we found that department heads has to negotiate ambiguous and blurred voices from the leadership as well as critical and concerned voices from employees which lead them to thread carefully when enacting gender balance policies. Thus, there is considerable space for leadership to facilitate department heads work with gender balance by allowing them more space for agency and provide support to give them more authority and legitimacy as change agents. This would also help department heads in their attempts of destabilizing a one-dimensional and simplistic view of meritocracy and their enactments of more radical interpretations of gender balance policies.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-11DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2021.1989006
Chris Hurl
ABSTRACT Drawing on a case study of Barnet, an outer borough of London (UK), this article discusses the challenges that activists face in making sense of local government in the neoliberal era. With the aim of making things more ‘direct’, ‘open’, and ‘streamlined,’ the borough’s council decided in 2008 to outsource the bulk of its services in two large contracts to the professional service firm Capita Plc. However, contrary to the image of institutional transparency presented, this article demonstrates that the large-scale outsourcing of services has contributed to the emergence of complex contractualized governance arrangements that raise new problems of legibility. Drawing from the methodological insights of Institutional Ethnography, I investigate how generating knowledge about such arrangements has posed a problem for local residents and community groups who have sought to understand the relationships under which their services are designed, financed, and delivered. Through infrastructures of dissent, I explore how local residents have developed strategies for investigating service arrangements, interrogating claims to value and efficiency, and exposing institutional blindspots in service provision. The article concludes by discussing the epistemological problems posed by neoliberal governance arrangements today, and how they raise challenges for those who confront them.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2021.1984265
I. Blanco, Vivien Lowndes, Y. Salazar
ABSTRACT Participatory governance is institutionalised to the extent that it shapes the behaviour of decision-makers and citizens. Participation policies that do not change established behaviour have limited, if any, impact. But what are the mechanisms whereby participatory governance becomes institutionalised? Using a case study of Barcelona, the paper analyses the relationship between formal rules, informal practices and narratives. Drawing on 90 interviews, the paper argues that in the context of neoliberal austerity formal rules proved surprisingly resilient, but informal practices and narratives became increasingly dis-aligned as civil society actors developed innovative approaches and more insistent demands. These novel informal practices and narratives subsequently underpinned the renaissance in participatory governance associated with the 2015-2019 Barcelona en Comú government. The paper makes theoretical and practical contributions regarding the drivers of stability and change. While formal rules may endure over time, dynamism in participatory governance depends upon the relationship between rules, practices and narratives.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2021.1985549
Helena Leino, M. Åkerman
ABSTRACT As atop-level national policy agenda, the Experimental Finland initiative (2015-2019) opens up an opportunity to investigate the politics of the nationally promoted experimental turn. We examine how the state launched agovernmental-level project aiming for the whole nation to become experimental. The Experimental Finland initiative was Prime Minister Juha Sipilä’s governmental Spearhead Programmes 2015-2019. This paper explores the underlying politics revealed by the implementation of Experimental Finland by asking:1) what kind of evidence concerning the barriers and obstacles of experimental culture was included and excluded in the national evaluation of the Experimental Finland programme, and2) how did the understanding of those barriers differ when compared to local level experiments? We argue that as experiments are expected to facilitate learning, they instead cause ambiguities in the organizational routines and imbalances in the existing power relations between different actors and actor groups.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-23DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2021.1982397
Øyunn Syrstad Høydal, Marit Haldar
ABSTRACT Schools are central in sustaining and extending values in society and therefore in shaping future society. While the global trend of education digitalization, commonly is presented as a depoliticized project of improvement, this paper seeks to uncover the values of the digital school as expressed in the strategy for the digitalization of the Norwegian education system. Inspired by Bacchi’s‘WPR approach, the findings reveal that digitalization involves establishing a problem and a solution through discourses or narratives of education, working life, and the future.Given this problem representation and sociotechnical imaginary of the future, the school’s main goal becomes to provide digitally competent future citizen-workers. The educational ideal of The Nordic model, and ideas of humanism and solidarity are not emphasized. Hence, the digital school reflects a neoliberal economy rather than values traditionally associated with the welfare state.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-06DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2021.1974504
Zulfa Sakhiyya
ABSTRACT This article uses a cultural materialism approach that combines Williams’ keyword analysis with Sum and Jessop’s cultural political economy to problematize the word ‘policy’ by taking the case of Indonesia. This combination offers a way to be more reflective of political discourses, especially their keywords. The examination shows that while the domain of policy has always been political, in the Indonesian context specifically, the term ‘policy’ itself has been politicized. Focusing on the keyword ‘policy’, I examine the selection, retention, and institutionalization of the word across policy speeches, policy documents, dictionaries, and public debates. I argue that the construction of the word policy as ‘wise’ has been made through the cloak of wisdom in order to build an apolitical image of policy processes. The insights from lexical semantics serve to enhance the debate in the cultural policy domain wherein policy discourse and the ambiguity of language plays a central role.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-31DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2021.1973525
S. Ball
ABSTRACT Behavioral public policy (BPP) has become increasingly popular with governments across the globe but what defines it in practice? It is not a concrete concept, encompassing a series of instruments, evaluation methods and theoretical influences. Using the findings from an ethnographic study of a behavioral insights team in the Australian Government this paper interrogates how BPP has been translated from these discrete components into practice by policymakers. This research posits that a significant degree of adaptation has taken place during this translation process. Participants could be referring to multiple different things when speaking about and implementing BPP, sometimes even communicating at cross-purposes. This paper incorporates Bevir and Rhodes ‘traditions’ to existing policy translation research to further interrogate how actors make meaning from and adapt ideas like BPP. This framework makes it possible to explore which translations carry greater influence and asks what this means for the BPP agenda moving forward.
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