Don’t think it’s a good idea! Four building sites of the ‘ideas school’

Kamkhaji, Jonathan C.; Radaelli, Claudio M.

doi:10.1080/01402382.2021.1959751

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“…Crisis has long been central to what is known as the "ideas school" in public policy (Kamkhaji & Radaelli, 2022).…”

Section: A Critical Review Of Ideas-crisis Researchmentioning

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“…Crisis has long been central to what is known as the “ideas school” in public policy (Kamkhaji & Radaelli, 2022). Several of the more prominent early accounts of ideas in policy‐making saw crises as generating the conditions for ideational change.…”

Section: A Critical Review Of Ideas‐crisis Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, the opportunities offered by crises to disrupt policy status quo are realized through actors' strategic framing or discursive action. In this way, scholars of ideas are interested in the “dialectic between ideational and material forces” (Kamkhaji & Radaelli, 2022, p. 849). Hence, crises of are interest to the extent that their material impacts (or the threat of) stretch existing orthodoxies to breaking point, forcing actors to adapt their ideas or presenting opportunities for alternative coalitions to form around new or re‐emerging ideas.…”

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Ideas and crisis in policy and administration: Existing links and research frontiers

Hannah¹,

Bækkeskov

Tubakovic

2022

Public Administration

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The study of ideas and crisis in public policy and administration has generated two literatures with shared interests, but often distinct approaches. In this Symposium introduction, we argue that crisis studies and the "ideas school" have much to learn from each other. To facilitate cross-pollination, this article reviews key insights from the two literatures with relevance across the divide. In our view, crisis studies offer important parameters that can help realize some of the ambitions expressed in the ideas school, such as how different crises and crisis stages affect opportunities for institutional and policy change. Similarly, ideational studies show new ways for crisis scholars to approach coherence in coordination among crisis actors, network information, and public communication. We conclude by assessing the contribution of the three Symposium papers to drawing new links between the fields and suggest future avenues for research. | INTRODUCTIONCrisis and ideas are core subjects of study in public policy and administration. On the one hand, empirical and theoretical accounts have traced the management of economic and environmental crises, natural disasters, public health events, and terrorist attacks, to name a selection. Managing crisis is not simply about responding after an event, though active and coordinated crisis response is critical. It also includes a cycle of risk management and prevention, creating and maintaining preparedness, crisis detection and recognition, recovery and normalization, and evaluating

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“…Crisis has long been central to what is known as the "ideas school" in public policy (Kamkhaji & Radaelli, 2022).…”

Section: A Critical Review Of Ideas-crisis Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Critical Review Of Ideas‐crisis Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Critical Review Of Ideas‐crisis Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ideas and crisis in policy and administration: Existing links and research frontiers

Hannah¹,

Bækkeskov

Tubakovic

2022

Public Administration

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“…However, policy change scholarship generally is more comfortable and successful in providing ex-post explanations of policy change than ex-ante recommendations for pathways towards it. Despite ongoing refinement of different theories of policy change (for example, Oliver and Pemberton, 2004;Mahoney and Thelen, 2009;Cairney and Weible, 2015;Zohlnhöfer et al, 2015;van der Heijden and Kuhlmann, 2017;Fernández-i-Marín et al, 2019;Weible et al, 2020;Derwort et al, 2021;Kamkhaji and Radaelli, 2021), broadly accepted definitions of degrees of policy change -such as paradigmatic, transformative, major or even incremental and minor -are missing. In addition, analyses of policy change are not easy to compare or integrate as they often rely on idiosyncratic or unsystematic empirical measurement of policy change.…”

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New pathways to paradigm change in public policy: combining insights from policy design, mix and feedback

Sewerin

Cashore

Howlett

2022

Policy &Amp; Politics

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To tackle the manifold crises of our times, most notably the environmental crises we face, ambitious policy change is urgently needed to achieve the necessary radical transformation of our industrialised societies. Yet, while there is increasing demand for public policy scholarship to provide guidance on how policy should be designed to achieve such change, existing scholarship struggles to provide ‘forward-looking’ recommendations. Within this context, our article takes a step back to reconsider the underlying logics of policy change. We argue that focusing on policy, its effect and the subsequent politics it triggers is best achieved by combining insights from the policy design, policy mix and policy feedback literatures. This combination allows us to re-evaluate which potential pathways towards policy change exist. The main contribution of our article is its proposition of two distinct pathways towards policy change, building on a systematic understanding of policy design elements. These pathways place greater emphasis on policy change happening (1) ‘bottom-up’ through initial low-level design changes rather than ‘top-down’ through high-level ideational change, as argued in earlier scholarship, (2) through the interplay of several policies in a complex mix. In this way, these pathways provide a useful framework for systematically analysing how policy should be designed to achieve ambitious policy change and thus enable transformative societal change.

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“…Ideas and learning have been a cornerstone of political analysis for a long time (Simon 1957(Simon , 1947Deutsch 1966;Heclo 1974;Goyal and Howlett 2018b;Vagionaki and Trein 2020 ). Research dealing with ideas in political science and public policy has used learning as a mechanism of how society embraces new and disposes of old ideas (e.g., Hall 1993;Kamkhaji and Radaelli 2020). In the political sphere, learning can involve changes at different levels of ideas, such as policy ideas, or, which is much rarer, actors' core beliefs (Jenkins-Smith et al 2018).…”

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Learning heuristics, issue salience and polarization in the policy process

Trein

Vagionaki

2021

West European Politics

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and a senior fellow at UC Berkeley. His research interests cover policy coordination and integration, the politics of digital public policy, health policy, and federalism as well as multilevel governance. His research has been published in leading political science and public policy journals as well as with major university presses. More information can be found here: www.philipptrein.com Thenia Vagionaki is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Studies at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Her research focuses on policy learning and EU studies. Her most recent work has been published in Political Studies Review and with Palgrave Macmillan.

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Don’t think it’s a good idea! Four building sites of the ‘ideas school’

Cited by 26 publications

References 48 publications

Ideas and crisis in policy and administration: Existing links and research frontiers

Ideas and crisis in policy and administration: Existing links and research frontiers

New pathways to paradigm change in public policy: combining insights from policy design, mix and feedback

Learning heuristics, issue salience and polarization in the policy process

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