Polysemy and the Sociolinguistics of Policy Ideas: Resilience, Sustainability and Wellbeing 2000 – 2020
Ayan-Yue Gupta
Abstract:In policy studies there is a concern with understanding how new ideas affect policy making. Central to this is the issue of how ideas become collectively adopted by policy actors. The policy paradigm perspective – the classical way of understanding collective adoption – has faced criticism for overestimating the coherence of adopted ideas and not paying sufficient attention to the micro-scale cognitive processes at play during collective adoption and how these are conditioned by macro-scale organisational proc… Show more
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