Policy instruments at work: A meta‐analysis of their applications

Acciai, Claudia; Capano, Giliberto

doi:10.1111/padm.12673

Cited by 65 publications

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“…To this end, this paper implicitly adds to the debate about whether only central policy making characteristics of national political systems affect policy instrument choices or is there also a significant contribution made by sector-specific policy styles. Similarly, it adds to a growing body of work that is calling for more analytical exploration of causal relationships between policy styles and formulation patterns for different policy instrument categories or specific sectors (Acciai & Capano, 2021).…”

Section: Conclusion: Networked Instrument Choice and Policy Stylesmentioning

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Fueling green connections: Networked policy instrument choices for sustainability regulation

Mukherjee

2022

Review of Policy Research

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This paper presents a policy network analysis study that examines policy subsystem interconnectedness and cohesion, to explore three constituent regulatory policy instruments that have a combined impact on governing sustainability. The network surrounding the environmental sustainability of biodiesel policy in Indonesia is marked by high interconnectedness and relatively weaker cohesion, properties that impact how policy solutions are formulated through policy actor interactions and define prevailing policy formulation styles. Using primary policy network data on 46 organizations and the review of national regulations, laws, and directives, this paper tests established hypotheses on how instruments that are formulated within the same policy subsystem, share similar characteristics. While overall network interconnectedness and cohesion are important first indicators of policy instrument selection in the literature on policy design, this article recommends also including an examination of network centrality and the characteristics of dominant central actors who are in favorable positions to design policies, to better accommodate for different policy formulation styles.

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Section: Conclusion: Networked Instrument Choice and Policy Stylesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fueling green connections: Networked policy instrument choices for sustainability regulation

Mukherjee

2022

Review of Policy Research

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“…Schneider and Ingram 1990). These tools are meant to help ameliorate the wicked problems of society that are either ignored or inadequately addressed (Schneider and Ingram 1990;Acciai and Capano 2020). The second, while having come before Schneider and Ingram is Hood's (1983) NATO typology, which stands for: nodality, authority, treasure, and organization.…”

Section: Policy Tool Categorizationmentioning

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“…While Hood's original typology came first, I am using the expanded definitions from Hood and Margetts (2007) here and so refer to it after Schneider and Ingram (1990). Unlike Ingram's (1990) typology, Hood (1983) and Hood and Margetts (2007) focus on the control measures governments use to shape constituent behaviors (Acciai and Capano 2020). While some of the words in these typologies are the same, the definitions can be quite different.…”

Section: Policy Tool Categorizationmentioning

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Grown Together: Local Food System Policy Tool Typologies and Bundling

Wassel

2022

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This paper aims to identify the ways local food system policy tools are used and if they align with the needs of constituents. I begin by looking at policy tools and tool bundles; categorization of local food system policy tools in the literature; and how the typology used in local food system literature compares to more mainstream policy tools literature. The comparison of the tool typologies lays the foundation for analyses of individual tool use and use by category. It also provides the basis for my analysis of sustainability policy tool bundles and it’s applicability for studying local food and local food systems’ governance.

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“…Compliance willingness is, therefore, operationalized as the function of the perceived possibility of punishment and severity of punishment (Sinclair, 1997). AC is often related to fines, imprisonment, and other types of negative punishment (Vedung, 1998), emphasizing the strength of restraints or coercion (Acciai & Capano, 2020). Safeguarded by power, AC is characterized by higher efficiency in fulfilling policy goals (Park, 2015) and altering behaviors (Sager, 2009).…”

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Two-Way Risk Communication, Public Value Consensus, and Citizens’ Policy Compliance Willingness About COVID-19: Multilevel Analysis Based on a Nudge View

Bin

Bao

Liu

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Administration & Society

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COVID-19 has spawned a surge in the number of public epidemic prevention policies. More important than active policy-making is how to increase citizens’ policy compliance willingness. Based on public value theory and nudge theory, this study adopts multilevel mediation and moderation model to analyze the relationships among the government’s authoritarian control, two-way risk communication, public value consensus, nudge, and citizens’ policy compliance willingness. A sample of 2,616 citizens nested in 86 Chinese cities was collected. The study found that (a) local governments can improve citizens’ policy compliance willingness by adopting both “stick” (authoritarian control) and “sermon” (two-way risk communication) policies, whereas two-way risk communication demonstrates a uniquely positive effect on public value consensus; and (b) the effect of two-way risk communication on policy compliance willingness is mediated by public value consensus. By enhancing public value consensus, two-way risk communication helps establish consensus between citizens and the government on “what needs/needs not to be done” and “what should/should not be done” to slow down the pandemic, thus coalescing efforts in a cooperative spirit; (c) nudge intervention positively moderates the effect of two-way risk communication on public value consensus, but has no effect on the authoritarian control–policy compliance willingness relationship. In other words, nudge intervention is a better companion to “sermons,” not “sticks.” Findings of the nuanced relationship manifested the differentiated effect of authoritarian control and two-way risk communication on citizens’ policy compliance willingness during a pandemic. The results provide theoretical implications for scholars to unlock the “black box” of public values and practical implications for strategies from behavioral public administration aspects to curb the ongoing COVID-19.

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Policy instruments at work: A meta‐analysis of their applications

Cited by 65 publications

References 42 publications

Fueling green connections: Networked policy instrument choices for sustainability regulation

Fueling green connections: Networked policy instrument choices for sustainability regulation

Grown Together: Local Food System Policy Tool Typologies and Bundling

Two-Way Risk Communication, Public Value Consensus, and Citizens’ Policy Compliance Willingness About COVID-19: Multilevel Analysis Based on a Nudge View

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