Framing evidence: policy design for the zero-carbon home

Schweber, Libby; Lees, Tim; Torriti, Jacopo

doi:10.1080/09613218.2015.1004658

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“…With the change of government in May 2010, Prime Minister Cameron reiterated the call for evidence-based decision-making in the public sector (Schweber et al, 2015) If policy-making is not an objective, scientific activityand there can be no surprise at this finding amongst those who give the subject deep consideration -the examples given here show that there can be science to it; but that there are limits.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…They are attuned to other influences as well, particularly what they perceive to be the opinions of their electors and other influencers such as business and the media. It follows that what people think and want is also a form of evidence (Schweber et al, 2015). Policy-makers and their advisers do not rely on technical arguments alone.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Against the models of policy-making sketched by Schweber et al (2015), one may, superficially, draw different conclusions about the DoH and COSU examples. At the DoH the production of evidence Constraints on evidence-based policy about design clearly was overlaid and mapped onto other policies.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A formal obligation was placed on public servants in the UK by the New Labour government to practise evidence-based policy-making (Schweber et al, 2015). This was established as a principle in the White Paper 8 Modernising Government (HM Government, 1999) and given form by the Cabinet Office 9 (Bullock, Mountford, & Stanley, 2001).…”

Section: Cabe and The Government's Demand For Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Schweber et al (2015), and to a lesser extent Warwick (2015), offer a useful review of the relevant literature, so it would be redundant to repeat it here. It will be apparent that the examples given do not fall into the 'rationalist, linear depiction of policy-making as a technocratic exercise' which Schweber et al describe as the 'touchstone of most work on evidence and policy'.…”

Section: Introduction: Design Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Constraints on evidence-based policy: insights from government practices

Simmons

2015

Building Research & Information

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Insights are offered into UK government built environment policy-making processes through an insider's perspective (based on experience of being the chief executive of a public body, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment -CABE) on three empirical examples. The government's mandate was for policies to be evidence based. There was no shortage of demand for evidence, but it was fed into political and bureaucratic domains where less-or non-evidence-based influences were also at work. The questions considered are how much the evidence really influenced the content of policy; and whether making a policy 'evidence based' led to its acceptance across government, causing departments to commit to its delivery. It is found that evidence (1) is powerful for defining issues to which policy should attend, (2) captures the attention of policy and decision-makers, but only if presented succinctly, and (3) is essential for testing outcomes. Supposedly evidence-based policy is not always truly evidence based. Many subjective forces counterbalance objectivity. The most significant reasons for this are mooted. Advice is offered on how to make evidence a more effective part of a process that will always be partly technical and objective, but also political and subjective.

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confidence: 99%

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Constraints on evidence-based policy: insights from government practices

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2015

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Transition policy mixes and business model adaptation: Incumbent firms' response to zero‐carbon policy in the housing sector

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Pinkse,

Rigby

2024

Bus Strat Env

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This paper provides a firm‐level perspective on sustainability transitions by analysing how government can use transition policy mixes to entice industry incumbents to adapt their business model to integrate sustainable technologies. It examines firm‐level barriers to policy implementation, why these exist, and how government can use transition policy mixes to overcome them. The empirical analysis provides an in‐depth case study of the UK Zero Carbon Homes (ZCH) as a transition policy mix and considers the point of view of policymakers and incumbent housebuilders. The paper sheds light on the question of how transition policy mix designs can support incumbents' business model adaptation to bring about transformational change for sustainability. The results show that the interaction between various policy shortcomings and business model adaptation barriers led to a failure of government to move the housebuilding sector towards a stronger integration of sustainable technologies. The paper concludes by arguing that decarbonising housing in the UK was a system failure, rather than a market or policy failure, as the government failed to address the underlying reasons of incumbents' resistance to changing their business model. The findings suggest that taking incumbents' business models into consideration while designing policies for sustainability transitions is necessary to entice established firms to actively take part in the process of transitions and adapt to new sustainable norms.

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Streamlining or watering down? Assessing the 'smartness' of policy and standards for the promotion of low and zero carbon homes in England 2010–15

2017

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Streamlining or watering down? Assessing the 'smartness' of policy and standards for the promotion of low and zero carbon homes in England 2010-15 Greenwood, D., Congreve, A. and King, M. NOTICE: this is the authors' version of a work that was accepted for publication in Energy Policy. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was

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Framing evidence: policy design for the zero-carbon home

Cited by 12 publications

References 17 publications

Constraints on evidence-based policy: insights from government practices

Constraints on evidence-based policy: insights from government practices

Transition policy mixes and business model adaptation: Incumbent firms' response to zero‐carbon policy in the housing sector

Streamlining or watering down? Assessing the 'smartness' of policy and standards for the promotion of low and zero carbon homes in England 2010–15

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