Foes to Friends: Changing Contexts and Changing Intergroup Perceptions

Weible, Christopher M.; Siddiki, Saba; Pierce, Jonathan J.

doi:10.1080/13876988.2011.605941

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“…These theories come from within public policy as well as a host of academic disciplines outside public policy including public administration, public management, political science, sociology, psychology, and a smattering of other fields. Inside of public policy, policy design and social construction theory has been applied with other public policy theories, including: framing (Itkonen, ; Reich & Barth, ), causal stories (Neff, ), policy sciences (Horejes, ), ACF (Weible et al., ), multiple streams (Jensen, ), policy entrepreneurs (Nicholson‐Crotty & Meier, ), punctuated equilibrium theory (Schneider, ), policy tools (Guetzkow, ), path dependency (Soss, ), interest group theory (McCulloch & Wilkins, ), and grid‐group cultural theory (Hoppe, ). Just as some of the previous analysis demonstrates the portability of the theory across substantive contexts, this section's findings are evidence of policy design and social construction's malleability in terms of incorporating other disciplines, theories, and propositions.…”

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“…Contenders have power but are negatively socially constructed. Examples of contenders include: the elderly (Hudson, , , ; Hudson & Gonyea, ), gay men with AIDS (Donovan, ; Schroedel & Jordan, ), political activists (Czech, Kausman, & Borkhataria, ; Hogan, ; Patterson & Keefe, ; Weible et al., ), local government (Weible et al., ), and mortgage banks (Hunter & Nixon, ). Many of those identified as contenders are also identified as deviants or dependents in different contexts.…”

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Social Construction and Policy Design: A Review of Past Applications

Pierce¹,

Siddiki²,

Jones³

et al. 2014

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One of the leading theories for understanding the policy process is the theory of social construction and policy design developed by Anne Schneider and Helen Ingram. The theory incorporates the social construction and power of target populations to understand the development and implications of policy design. In order to better understand its empirical breadth, depth, and general utility, our analysis reviews all past publications of the theory, focusing specifically on empirical applications (N = 111), from 1993 to 2013. Based on this review, we find: a recent increase in the number of applications of this theory; that these applications appear across a wide range of outlets, relate to numerous policy domains, and are conducted by a diverse group of domestic and international scholars; that the target population proposition has been applied with greater frequency than the theory's feed-forward proposition; and that scholars have a notable interest in understanding causal mechanisms leading to changes in the positioning of target populations among advantaged, contender, dependent, and deviant target population categories. Following a descriptive review of past publications, we offer specific suggestions for theoretical development and future research.KEY WORDS: public policy, policy process, meta-analysis, literature review, social construction, policy design, feedback IntroductionIn 1999, Paul Sabatier edited a volume entitled Theories of the Policy Process (Sabatier, 1999a). Within this now near canonical tome are emergent theories of the policy process from the previous 15 years deemed by Sabatier to sufficiently adhere to scientific standards at the time. Through this effort, he charted a path forward for future policy process scholarship. Explicitly omitted from the edited volume was the work of what Sabatier termed constructivists. At the time, constructivists were a minority of policy process scholars (e.g., Fischer & Forrester, 1993) that focused on the socially constructed nature of policy as well as reality, in which perceptions and intersubjective meaning-making processes were considered central to understanding and explaining the policy process. Among his criticisms, Sabatier described constructivist methods as "nonfalsifiable" and their ideas as "free-floating and unconnected to specific individuals, institutions, or socio-economic conditions" bs_bs_banner The Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 42, No. (Sabatier, 1999b, p. 11). Of course Sabatier was challenged for his decision to exclude this body of work, especially by European scholars (e.g., Parsons, 2000;Radaelli, 2000), but was unyielding in his position to exclude constructivist approaches in the edited volume.One of the most notable constructivist approaches included in Sabatier's "omitted frameworks" list was the theory of social construction and policy design that was first articulated by Schneider and Ingram in 1993 (Sabatier, 1999b, p. 11). However, by the second edition of Theories of the Policy Process, Sabatier (2007a) changed his mind. ...

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Section: Analysis Of Past Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Analysis Of Past Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Construction and Policy Design: A Review of Past Applications

Pierce¹,

Siddiki²,

Jones³

et al. 2014

Policy Studies Journal

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152

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“…Updating this pioneering work, Weible et al (2011b) have collected new survey data on the devil shift among the stakeholders of Lake Tahoe basin management. Their longitudinal analysis compared devil shift dynamics at three points in time -namely, 1984time -namely, , 1990time -namely, and 2004 show that the number of policy actors that actually experience devil shift decreases over time.…”

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“…In line with the sociopsychological foundation of the devil shift phenomenon, we start with actor-related factors. Next, we follow the argument of Weible et al (2011b) and examine whether the context of the policy process plays a role.…”

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Dealing with bad guys: actor- and process-level determinants of the “devil shift” in policy making

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: Policy actors tend to misinterpret and distrust opponents in policy processes. This phenomenon, known as the "devil shift", consists of the following two dimensions: actors perceive opponents as more powerful and as more evil than they really are. Analysing nine policy processes in Switzerland, this article highlights the drivers of the devil shift at two levels. On the actor level, interest groups, political parties and powerful actors suffer more from the devil shift than state actors and powerless actors. On the process level, the devil shift is stronger in policy processes dealing with socio-economic issues as compared with other issues. Finally, and in line with previous studies, there is less empirical evidence of the power dimension of the devil shift phenomenon than of its evilness dimension.

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“…An important stream of public policy research asks how experts associate with different coalitions of actors in policy-making processes (e.g., Weible et al 2010;Sabatier and Zafonte 1995;Montpetit 2011;Weible et al 2011;Weiss 1979). The model of expert thinking provided here hints at answers.…”

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Information, values and expert decision-making: the case of soil decontamination

Montpetit

Lachapelle

2015

Policy Sci

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Building on insights from cognitive psychology and scholarship on decisionmaking, this article examines the respective role of values and information, and the interaction between them, in the formation of expert judgment. We analyze data from an original expert survey on soil decontamination practices and test several hypotheses found in the literature. While it is common to assume that experts rely primarily on factual information when making decisions, we find that values may also orient the judgment of experts when such information is lacking. In such cases, experts may be influenced by their value predispositions, leading to a wider range of expert assessments. Conversely, the judgment of experts who possess the relevant information tends to converge on the best known outcomes. We thus find that relevant knowledge mediates the role of values in expert judgment. While suggesting that some caution should always be taken when deferring to experts, our findings suggest that governments and the public are justified in taking experts' judgment seriously.

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Foes to Friends: Changing Contexts and Changing Intergroup Perceptions

Cited by 34 publications

References 30 publications

Social Construction and Policy Design: A Review of Past Applications

Social Construction and Policy Design: A Review of Past Applications

Dealing with bad guys: actor- and process-level determinants of the “devil shift” in policy making

Information, values and expert decision-making: the case of soil decontamination

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