Policy integration: Do laws or actors integrate issues relevant to flood risk management in Switzerland?

Metz, Florence; Angst, Mario; Fischer, Manuel

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101945

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“…While endogenous actor and relational attributes have been described extensively in previous research (Henry & Lubell, 2010; Ingold & Fischer, 2013; Lubell et al., 2010), exogenous drivers of social tie formation are less studied. Despite recent progress (Angst, 2019; Bergsten et al., 2019; Bodin & Nohrstedt, 2016; McGlashan et al., 2019; Metz et al, 2020), understanding the effects of multiple policy issues and policy issue interdependencies on the formation of collaborative networks is still very limited.…”

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“…Policy issue interdependency furthermore implies that coordination is required to effectively solve the overarching problem. Thus, collaboration among actors addressing interdependent policy issues appears as imperative, but policy issue interdependencies are rarely studied as a driver of collaboration (see however Bodin & Nohrstedt, 2016; McGlashan et al., 2019; Metz et al., 2020). This is a limitation that constrains the understanding of how collaborative arrangements aiming to solve environmental problems emerge, evolve and ultimately perform.…”

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Policy issue interdependency and the formation of collaborative networks

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Environmental problems often span a set of challenges that each may engage different policy actors across different policy domains. These challenges, or policy issues, nonetheless exhibit interdependencies that may constrain the ability of actors to work together towards joint solutions. Still, we have limited knowledge about whether and how policy issue interdependencies actually shape how actors collaborate. Using data derived from two venues for collaborative water governance in the Norrström basin, Sweden, we investigate whether and how policy issues and policy issue interdependencies influence actors' selection of collaborative partners. We test two alternative sets of propositions; one set assumes that partner selection is driven by actors' engagement in policy issues and their interdependencies, while the other set emphasises social positions and actor attributes. Our results show that in one venue, actors' choices of collaborative partner were associated with factors from both sets, but not with policy issue interdependencies specifically. In the other venue, only actor and relational attributes shaped social tie formation. These results suggest that how actors interact does not necessarily align with the policy issues and the policy issue interdependencies defined by the environmental problem they are to address. Our results provide an important step towards arriving at evidence‐based recommendations for more effective collaborative efforts in addressing complex environmental problems that no actor can address alone. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.

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Policy issue interdependency and the formation of collaborative networks

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“…Adopting policies in new sectors ultimately contributes to growing policy regimes, which makes it increasingly challenging to integrate the different sectoral policies. Since coordination across independent policy sectors is difficult [40], path dependent and stable sectoral policies also challenge the integration of different water-relevant interests in IWRM. As a result, public policies must be considered and integrated over time in IWRM.…”

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Integrated Water Resources Management and Policy Integration: Lessons from 169 Years of Flood Policies in Switzerland

Metz

Glaus

2019

Water

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In times of increasing pressures on water resources, the integrated management of the resource is a central policy objective. While there exists encompassing research about the concept of integrated water resources management (IWRM), much remains to be studied regarding the integration of water-related policies. Water resources management profits when policy actors coordinate their demands and actions across policy sectors, territorial entities, and decision-making levels within a water basin. However, actors are bound by the policy framework, which organizes water resources management in defined sectors and, over time, develop into independent and specialized policy pillars. A growing number of policies increases the need to integrate those policies over time following the institutional resources regime (IRR) framework. However, an increasing number of policies also proves challenging in establishing an integrated, coherent regime compliant with IWRM. In this study, we analyze flood risk management policies and find an almost exponential increase in policies over time, while flood risks and damage have not decreased in parallel. We address this empirical puzzle with an in-depth analysis of the design of Swiss flood risk management policies over time. To this end, we survey the opinion of 146 flood experts on the importance of ten policy design indicators in three flood-prone regions in Switzerland. Flood risk management experts attribute particular importance to policy designs characterized by integration, a sufficient budget for policy implementation, and coercive instruments and sanctions. We then compare survey results to the ways in which Swiss policies have been designed in legislation across policy sectors related to flood risk management over the last 169 years. We find that policy designs follow a national policy style. Placing these results in local contexts, we explain why the design of policies represents both a challenge and opportunity for policy-makers involved in flood risk management.

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“…It is at the level of more specific sectors that we expect to find explicit policies for public action. In defining policy sectors, we borrow the words from Knoke (1994, 279) to designate them as all policies and actors “concerned with formulating, advocating, and selecting courses of action to solve that domain's problem” (also found in Metz, Angst, & Fischer, 2020). It is at this level that we find the agencies and other mechanisms of the state, as well as the instruments of public policy.…”

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Theoretical foundations of the Programmatic Action Framework (PAF)

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Smyrl

2020

European Policy Analysis

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This article introduces the Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) as a supplementary perspective in policy process research. It focuses on professional biographies of programmatic actors, policy programs, and programmatic identities as driving factors for policies. Programmatic actors are individuals in direct interaction with the state apparatus. Civil servants, politicians, and similar individuals under certain predictable circumstances form stable alliances called programmatic groups. These programmatic groups are bound by commitment to the creation and promotion of a specific policy program, a definable set of instruments intended to attain an explicit policy objective. This policy program, rather than more diffuse beliefs or preferences, provides the defining element of the social group and corresponding social identity for such programmatic groups. Programmatic groups compete with each other for legitimate authority within and across policy sectors by seeking to impose their preferred instruments. Homogenous career trajectories, continuous linkages, and a coherent and strong joint program are essential determinants for the formation and success of programmatic groups.

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Policy integration: Do laws or actors integrate issues relevant to flood risk management in Switzerland?

Cited by 46 publications

References 55 publications

Policy issue interdependency and the formation of collaborative networks

Policy issue interdependency and the formation of collaborative networks

Integrated Water Resources Management and Policy Integration: Lessons from 169 Years of Flood Policies in Switzerland

Theoretical foundations of the Programmatic Action Framework (PAF)

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