Categories of failure in climate change mitigation policy in Australia

Newman, Joshua; Head, Brian

doi:10.1177/0952076714565832

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“…The literature is full of examples, lessons, and frameworks facilitating better outcomes (e.g. Bovens 2010;Howlett 2011Howlett , 2012Howlett , 2019Howlett, Ramesh, and Wu 2015;King and Crewe 2013;McConnell 2010a, 2010b;McConnell 2010aMcConnell , 2010bMcConnell , 2011McConnell , 2015Newman and Head 2015).…”

Section: Challenges Unlocking Value From Failurementioning

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“…A fourth category proposed by Newman and Head (2015) is illustrated instead by separating the program dimension into sub-categories: "objective attainment" (outcomes) and "distributional outcomes" (negative consequences such as financial loss or rights infringement). The authors' examples also indicate nuance in the first subcategory relevant for anti-money laundering.…”

Section: Policy Effectiveness 101mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Anti-money laundering: The world's least effective policy experiment? Together, we can fix it

Pol

2020

Policy Design and Practice

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This paper uses anti-money laundering as a case study to illustrate the benefits of cross-disciplinary engagement when major policymaking functions develop separately from public policy design principles. It finds that the anti-money laundering policy intervention has less than 0.1 percent impact on criminal finances, compliance costs exceed recovered criminal funds more than a hundred times over, and banks, taxpayers and ordinary citizens are penalized more than criminal enterprises. The data are poorly validated and methodological inconsistencies rife, so findings cannot be definitive, but there is a huge gap between policy intent and results. The scale of the problem not addressed by "solutions" repeatedly "fixing" the same perceived issues suggest that blaming banks for not "properly" implementing anti-money laundering laws is a convenient fiction. Fundamental problems may lie instead with the design of the core policy prescription itself. With an important policymaking function operating largely as an independent silo of specialist knowledge, this paper suggests that active engagement with critical, diverse perspectives, and deeper connections between the anti-money laundering movement and other disciplines (notably, policy effectiveness, outcomes and evaluation principles of public policy) should contribute to better results.

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Section: Challenges Unlocking Value From Failurementioning

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Section: Policy Effectiveness 101mentioning

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Anti-money laundering: The world's least effective policy experiment? Together, we can fix it

Pol

2020

Policy Design and Practice

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“…The governance approach therefore overlaps with policy studies literature that blames failure depending, among other factors, on the complexity of involving numerous actors and processes. It is assumed that, when governance includes agencies with various goals and interests, the formulation, implementation, and coordination of policy can become difficult and increase the chances that a policy program will fail (Newman & Head, ; Wolman, ). Failure is considered to happen when a policy does not achieve the political goals and programs that proponents set out to achieve initially and finds great opposition or loses all intended support (Howlett, ; McConnell, , pp.…”

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confidence: 99%

Governance of Defense and Policymaking in Chile

Solar¹

2015

Latin American Policy

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As Latin American countries work toward leaving military regimes well behind, the current governing of defense in the hands of civilians unveils a series of challenges for democratically elected leaders. This article analyzes the case study of Chile's contemporary defense sector and its policymaking after three decades of evolving civil-military relations. The research focuses particularly on the Estrategia Nacional de Seguridad y Defensa (ENSYD), a government-led policy program launched in 2013 that failed to achieve its goals and faced extensive opposition, for example, in its human security approach to understanding security threats. The article explores and builds on civil-military relations literature and suggests the governance of defense as a concept to study further the constant governing processes by which institutions assume different beliefs and interests in relation to how policies are planned and executed.Mientras que los países latinoamericanos consolidan esfuerzos para dejar a los regímenes militares en el pasado, la gobernanza del sector de la defensa por parte de civiles presenta una serie de retos para las autoridades elegidas de manera democrática. Este artículo analiza el caso de estudio de las políticas públicas de defensa en Chile tras 30 años de evolución de las relaciones cívico-militares. La investigación se enfoca particularmente en la Estrategia Nacional de Seguridad y Defensa (ENSYD), una política presentada por el gobierno en 2013 cuyo éxito programático fue truncado y objeto de amplia oposición, por ejemplo, en cuanto al uso de un enfoque de seguridad humana para enfrentar las amenazas a la seguridad. El artículo explora y construye sobre la literatura de relaciones cívico-militares y propone a la gobernanza de la defensa como un concepto para estudiar los constantes procesos de gobierno en que varias instituciones expresan motivos e intereses particulares en el planeamiento y ejecución de tales políticas. a human-oriented understanding. Through the ENSYD, President Piñera kept one of his campaign promises for the defense sector and intended for it to be a state policy for the country's security matters thereafter, but its unveiling marked a watershed moment in what was up to then a solemn tradition of consensual defense policymaking in the country (Robledo, 2012). Multiple sectors in government, civil society, and the armed forces severely criticized the policy for its novel framework and viewed it with skepticism and reluctance.The leader of the Senate, Camilo Escalona, a member of the opposition socialist party and an influential figure of the center-left coalition Concertación, disapproved of how the ENSYD proposed a new, wider conceptualization of security. He was especially unconvinced of how "new threats" to security, such as organized crime, energy vulnerability, human trafficking, and other "internal" menaces, were understood in this new approach. To Escalona, this rationale went against Chile's successful experience over the last two decades in keeping the armed forces away...

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“…Walsh 2006;Bovens and Hart 1996;Bovens et al 2001;May 2014;Newman and Head 2015) provides many different interpretations of what constitutes policy failure. McConnell's (2010, 356) definition of policy failure where 'policy fails if it does not achieve the goals that proponents set out to achieve, and opposition is great and/or support is virtually non-existent', is useful for pinpointing where failure begins (with policy goals) and how it ends (with opposition or without support).…”

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Integrated policy approaches and policy failure: the case of Australia’s Oceans Policy

Vince

2015

Policy Sci

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Governments have struggled to successfully implement large-scale integrated policy approaches, often resulting in policy failure. However, there has been little investigation into why this is the case. This paper links the discourse on policy failure and integrated policy approaches and identifies what aspects of 'integration' cause failure. It argues that programme failure occurs in integrated policy approaches when there are unachievable goals or timelines, poor policy design and/or when the incorrect types of processes are selected. Policy process failure is particularly evident in an integrated policy's implementation where multi-sector and multi-level issues arise, whereas failure in the politics of integrated approaches is found in political gain and blame avoidance of key decision-makers. This framework is then applied to Australia's Oceans Policy demonstrating that it was unable to achieve its original objectives; the layering process of new policy and institutions on established silos was ineffective; and the new institutions did not have the integrative capacity required for successful implementation. The Australian experience reveals that an institutional model that can deal with multiple issues, jurisdictions and sectors holistically is essential if integrative capacity is to be achieved.

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Categories of failure in climate change mitigation policy in Australia

Cited by 31 publications

References 49 publications

Anti-money laundering: The world's least effective policy experiment? Together, we can fix it

Anti-money laundering: The world's least effective policy experiment? Together, we can fix it

Governance of Defense and Policymaking in Chile

Integrated policy approaches and policy failure: the case of Australia’s Oceans Policy

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