Interaction, consensus and unpredictability in development policy ‘transfer’ and practice

Vaughan, Sarah; Rafanell, Irene

doi:10.1080/19460171.2012.659889

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“…Most of the literature on policy transfer takes a quasi-rational, phase-based policymaking model as a starting point, thereby assuming that a suitable policy and well-organised knowledge transfer will result in adoption (James and Lodge 2003;Mukhtarov 2014). However, research into translation of policy stresses the role of actors and how they construct meaning (Freeman 2009;Vaughan and Rafanell 2012). As such, policy transfer becomes more of a social and political process.…”

Section: Process Designmentioning

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Reconstructing the impasse in the transfer of delta plans: evaluating the translation of Dutch water management strategies to Jakarta, Indonesia

Minkman

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2019

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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This study takes the stagnation in the transfer of knowledge about strategic delta planning as a starting point and identifies the interplay of constraining factors. We conclude that the way the process of policy transfer is executed is crucial. The Dutch government aims to transfer the Dutch approach to delta planning (labelled 'the Dutch Delta Approach') to otheroften developingcountries. However, policy transfer is a complex process that depends on a variety of factors. Deadlocks can occur when the transferred knowledge and the corresponding policy ideas are neither adopted nor rejected. Taking the impasse in the transfer process in the National Capital Integrated Coastal Development project in Jakarta as a case study, we demonstrate that fundamental policy change is needed to adopt strategic delta planning in Jakarta and present three interrelated explanations, related to the policy transfer process, that illustrate why this change is not yet observed.

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Section: Process Designmentioning

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Reconstructing the impasse in the transfer of delta plans: evaluating the translation of Dutch water management strategies to Jakarta, Indonesia

Minkman

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2019

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…Thus, rather than being new developments of complex and opaque governance, in the 'Global South', also later in Eastern Europe and central Asia, the politics of policymaking and the assertion of domestic interests continued to be in politically complex and financially constrained circumstances, subject to their own dynamics (Aitken, 2010;Berry and Gabay, 2009;Bridge and Wood, 2005;Larner and Laurie, 2010;Stattman and Gupta, 2015;Vaughan and Rafanell, 2012). Postcolonial domestic policy actors moved between, endorsed and/or contested marketisation agendas and the imposition of financial, political and social controls in a wide array of settings as a matter of course.…”

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Introduction to Governance Analysis: Critical Enquiry at the Intersection of Politics, Policy and Society

Carmel¹

2019

Governance Analysis

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This book offers a theoretical and analytical account of governance that enables us to investigate how societies are governed, and with what consequences for power and inequality. This approach enables us to treat governance as at once fully political and fully social, and to rescue its relevance for the analysis of politics, policy and society. How we are governed is vital in the reproduction and transformation of societies. The ideas, decisions and actions that govern our collective life have material and discursive effects that structure social relations. And because such effects can be contested or erased over time, we need a theoretical account of governing that enables us to make visible the politics of these structuring effects in different settings. Our account of governance is therefore concerned both with the material and discursive manifestations of power and their contestation (the political), and also with how social formations are structured, (self-) organised and managed over time (the social). In this book, we conceptualise governance as regime(s) of governing practices that produce socio-political orders, of varying durability and contingency. We treat governance as produced by the material actions, interpretive understandings and structured social positions of socially constituted political actors. We move beyond poststructuralist accounts of government and discourse, and beyond accounts of state-centred policymaking. As such, our account is self-consciously 'post'-poststructuralist. We use this term as a shorthand to acknowledge the influence of original writings on governmentality, semiosis and state theories that we combine with a resolutely historicist and actor-centred approach. The actor-centredness of our conceptualisation gives due emphasis to meaning, action and structure in shaping governance in different settings. Any theoretical account is of course always developed in dialogue

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“…Few studies have investigated people’s participation in the implementation of development activities (Williamson, ) and people’s limits in engaging with systems of social and community accountability (Pankhurst, ). The evidence suggests that policies produce different results depending on their implementation (Vaughan and Rafanell, ). This article aims to extend the evidence base on social protection in Ethiopia by exploring the roles of people’s preferences and identifying institutional quality at the local level in the implementation of PSNP.…”

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The relevance of institutions and people’s preferences in the PSNP and IN‐SCT programmes in Ethiopia

Vinci

Roelen

2020

Int Social Security Review

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The effective implementation of social protection interventions is key for achieving positive change. The existing literature mainly focuses on issues related to programme design and impact, rather than the factors that influence the emergence, expansion and provision of these programmes. This article builds on the recent literature that indicates that the quality of institutions and people's preferences play an important role in the implementation of social protection. It does so by using Ethiopia and its Productive Safety Net Programmeone of the largest social protection programmes in sub-Saharan Africaas a case study, thereby contributing to debates on how to implement social protection more effectively, particularly in settings of widespread poverty and relatively low levels of institutional capacity. Based on primary qualitative data, the article finds that greater institutional quality at the local level is associated with the more effective provision of social protection. The ability of community members and

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Interaction, consensus and unpredictability in development policy ‘transfer’ and practice

Cited by 17 publications

References 31 publications

Reconstructing the impasse in the transfer of delta plans: evaluating the translation of Dutch water management strategies to Jakarta, Indonesia

Reconstructing the impasse in the transfer of delta plans: evaluating the translation of Dutch water management strategies to Jakarta, Indonesia

Introduction to Governance Analysis: Critical Enquiry at the Intersection of Politics, Policy and Society

The relevance of institutions and people’s preferences in the PSNP and IN‐SCT programmes in Ethiopia

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