Neglected challenges to evidence-based policy-making: the problem of policy accumulation

Adam, Christian; Steinebach, Yves; Knill, Christoph

doi:10.1007/s11077-018-9318-4

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“…Incluso en EUA existen páginas que pretenden calificar programas con criterios científicos (la Coalition for Evidence-based Policy entre 2008 y 2015, y la Social Programmes That Work, actualmente) para que gestores públicos identifiquen fácilmente los programas que logran presentar evidencia de nivel superior (Top tier evidence). También es posible encontrar trabajos en este sentido en Alemania (Adam et al, 2018).…”

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Evidencia: conceptos y usos en la evaluación de políticas y programas públicos

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2021

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Evidencia: conceptos y usos en la evaluación de políticas y programas públicos

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2021

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“…The resulting policy mixes are thus seen as having developed unsystematically over time and more or less at random, certainly not as a result of conscious design choices by policy-makers (Van der Heijden, 2011;Howlett and Rayner, 2007;Thelen, 2003). The layering or accumulation of policies over time is generally being seen as impeding the functionality of policy mixes and therefore as a persistent challenge for researchers interested in the effectiveness of policies as such (Adam et al, 2018; see Chapter 16 in this volume). Interestingly, despite the prevalence of the term in the literature, 'layering' as an empirical phenomenon is not clearly defined (Burns et al, 2018b;Van der Heijden, 2011), making it hard to apply in empirical research and thus limiting its value as a conceptual tool to understand policy mixes.…”

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Understanding complex policy mixes: conceptual and empirical challenges

Sewerin¹

2020

A Modern Guide to Public Policy

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There is a growing disconnect in the literature between the theoreticalconceptual underpinning of policy mix studies and limited success in the development of common empirical approaches to systematically study real-world policy mixes. For applied research into policy mixes, this tension creates practical challenges, namely how to apply abstract conceptualisations of policy mix characteristics in a way that avoids conceptual stretching and how to systematically assess the constituent parts of a policy mix. Overcoming these challenges is necessary in order to produce generalizable empirical findings that have a relevance beyond a case-specific context. This chapter briefly reviews the stateof-the-art of the burgeoning theoretical and conceptual literature on policy mixes and highlights the persistent empirical challenges researchers and practitioners face when aiming to analyse and understand complex real-world policy mixes.

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“…Policy outputs are the immediate result of the decision-making process. Policy outcomes, on the other hand, refer to more general societal or environmental developments that are usually assumed to be at least in part the result of a given set of policy outputs [20,21]. A typical example for an output in the field of environmental governance could be the adoption of new environmental programs or regulations that set out new standards for water and air quality.…”

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Water Quality and the Effectiveness of European Union Policies

Steinebach¹

2019

Water

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This article is a first attempt to examine the effectiveness of EU water policies in a comparative perspective. It provides a systematic analysis of the relationship between EU water policies and the quality of national water resources for 17 EU member states over a period of 23 years (1990–2012). The analysis reveals that EU policies have contributed to the water quality in the member states. Moreover, it finds that decentralized implementation processes enhance the effectiveness of top-down policy instruments while not making a significant difference for bottom-up policy instruments. Administrative capacities and (neo-)corporatist arrangement seem to play some, yet only minor, role in determining the effectiveness of EU water policies. This way, the article speaks to the literature on EU compliance and implementation and the broader public policy literature.

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Neglected challenges to evidence-based policy-making: the problem of policy accumulation

Cited by 56 publications

References 48 publications

Evidencia: conceptos y usos en la evaluación de políticas y programas públicos

Evidencia: conceptos y usos en la evaluación de políticas y programas públicos

Understanding complex policy mixes: conceptual and empirical challenges

Water Quality and the Effectiveness of European Union Policies

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