2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2007.00342.x
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Introduction: Understanding Public Policy through Its Instruments—From the Nature of Instruments to the Sociology of Public Policy Instrumentation

Abstract: Public policy instrumentation and its choice of tools and modes of operation are treated either as a kind of evidence (governing means making regulations, taxing, entering into contracts, communicating, etc.) or as if the questions it raises (the properties of instruments, justifications for choosing them, their applicability, etc.) are part of a rationality of methods without any autonomous meaning. This paper aims to explain the significance of a political sociology approach to public policy instruments in… Show more

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“…While particular policy instruments create their own effects (Lascoumes & Le Gales, 2007), the way in which teachers responded to and managed more managerial processes also reveals an emphasis upon more substantive educative practices in schooling settings than might be anticipated under current managerial conditions, or as expressed in some of the more general educational policy-related literature. While auditing practices were clearly pervasive -down to teachers' discursive reference to Heads of Department and senior administrators as 'line managers' -such practices did not go unchallenged.…”
Section: Discussion: Managing Managerialismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While particular policy instruments create their own effects (Lascoumes & Le Gales, 2007), the way in which teachers responded to and managed more managerial processes also reveals an emphasis upon more substantive educative practices in schooling settings than might be anticipated under current managerial conditions, or as expressed in some of the more general educational policy-related literature. While auditing practices were clearly pervasive -down to teachers' discursive reference to Heads of Department and senior administrators as 'line managers' -such practices did not go unchallenged.…”
Section: Discussion: Managing Managerialismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As such they are both political -in the way they inform policies and have particular effects in the world -and cognitive -in the way they alter what is culturally expected and reorganise the cognitive map of late life. The policy process is scaffolded by such coordinative, constitutive, socio-technical devices (Lascoumes & Le Gales 2007, Bowker & Star 1999, Desrosieres 1990). …”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Andererseits ermöglicht eine solche Definition, die Unterschiede oder Veränderungen zwischen verschiedenen Modi von Governance zu analysieren, in denen der Staat respektive die staatlichen Akteurinnen und Akteure jeweils unterschiedliche Aufgaben über-nehmen können, sich mehr oder weniger zurücknehmen respektive mehr hierarchische oder vertikale Governance-Strukturen aufbauen. Die verschiedenen Modi von (Urban) Governance, die Pierre und Peters (2000) sowie Pierre (1999Pierre ( , 2005Pierre ( , 2011 Galès (2004Galès ( , 2007, Hood (1983Hood ( , 2007 sowie Hood und Margetts (2007) 10 die Art der Beziehung zwischen dem Staat und seinen Bürgerinnen und Bürgern auf.…”
Section: Verschiedene Governance-ansätzeunclassified
“…It is a particular type of institution, a technical device with the generic purpose of carrying a concrete concept of the politics/society relationship and sustained by a concept of regulation.« (Lascoumes und Le Galès 2007: 4) Die Wahl eines bestimmten Policy-Instrumentes hängt damit per se mit dem politischen und sozialen Gefüge einer bestimmten politischen Einheit (z.B. einer Gemeinde) zusammen und ist demzufolge immer Ausdruck einer kollektiven Entscheidungssituation, die durch die ihr inhärente politische und soziale Machtsituation entsteht (Lascoumes und Le Galès 2007). Die kollektiven Entscheidungssitua-10 Weitere wichtige Autorinnen und Autoren sind Dahl und Lindblom (1953), Lowi (1972Lowi ( , 1966, Salomon (1981) sowie Linder und Peters (1989 Hunter (1953) und Mills (1956) die Machtverteilung in Städten als monolithisch bezeichnen -also das Vorhandensein eines kleinen Zirkels mächtiger Personen herausstreichen -, schlussfolgert Dahl (1961), es gebe eine pluralistischere Machtverteilung, die auf den Organisations-und Selektionsstrukturen der lokalen Parteien basiere und sich je nach Politikfeld unterscheiden könne.…”
Section: Verschiedene Governance-ansätzeunclassified