Refining the Multiple Streams Framework’s Integration Concept: Renewable Energy Policy and Ecological Modernization in Germany and Japan in Comparative Perspective

Novotný, Vilém; Satoh, Keiichi; Nagel, Melanie

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“…Performed in a cumulative fashion, this has enabled some subsequent research -to be sure not all MSF studies follow this route -to build on successful (progressive) "problem shifts", that is, to continuously reflect, assess, and re-examine the existing protective belt. For example, consider the concept of integration of policy community (Novotný et al 2021). It is crucial to identify the structure of a policy community because it affects the gestation trajectory of policy ideas (proposals) in the policy stream.…”

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“…Consequently, developed a new hypothesis: "as the integration of policy communities decreases, it becomes more likely that entirely new ideas can become viable policy alternatives" (Herweg et al 2018, 30). Novotný et al (2021) use policy network methodology to add empirical support to the latter hypothesis. What we have witnessed is progressive reflection, assessment, and re-specification to add empirical validity, nuance, and greater scope to hypotheses regarding integration of policy communities.…”

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Advancing the Multiple Streams Framework

Zahariadis,

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Zohlnhöfer

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A Modern Guide to the Multiple Streams Framework

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How do policy makers decide what issues to attend and which choices to make or implement? This question is especially puzzling because policy makers themselves often do not have the requisite information and do not know what they want. They cannot possibly attend to all issues or even educate themselves on what they consider to be the most important problems. Prioritizing issues is a process that contains doses of political power, perception, potency and proximity in different quantities at different times (Zahariadis 2016b, 7-8). It makes the goal of the all-attentive, omniscient, or even satisficing, policymaker largely an idealized myth. In this book, we present and discuss a framework of the policy process, the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF), that provides an answer to the above question by side-stepping this myth (Kingdon 2011;Zahariadis 2003). Exploring systematically MSF's suitability in various issues across subnational, national, and international contexts, we conceptualize public policy somewhat like a Delphic oracle, a process replete with bias, language and symbols among interacting policy actors who generate conflicting messages in staged settings of political power. Drawing on the wisdom and cunning of the ancients, we look for answers in the ritualized context within which issues are raised and decisions are made, stressing two important elements of the process: ambiguity and time (see Zohlnhöfer and Rüb 2016). Ambiguity points to the need to interpret policy facts and time highlights the dynamics of change and shifting priorities. These concepts together help us explain the why and when of public policymaking.Travelling back to Delphic times in ancient Greece, we observe that Pythia, Apollo's priestess, delivered prophecies in a highly ritualized environment

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Advancing the Multiple Streams Framework

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Herweg,

Zohlnhöfer

et al. 2023

A Modern Guide to the Multiple Streams Framework

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“…They often applied it to other levels of public policy in different countries and to a variety of other areas (Jones et al 2016, Cairney and, mostly using qualitative perspective (Rawat, Morris 2016). The quantitative approaches still appear only in a minimum number of cases (Novotný, Satoh, Nagel 2021). Even though similar methodology and data are used to a certain extent across countries and policy areas, the authors agree that expanding research areas requires adaptation of the multiple streams concept when it is applied outside Kingdon's original scope (Kane 2016, Mukherjee, Howlett 2015.…”

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Reforms of Czech Hospitals in Multiple Streams Perspective: The Cases of Success and Failure

Angelovská

Novotný

2022

Central European Journal of Public Policy

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The Czech Republic experienced a significant transformation of health care as a consequence of society-wide changes which started 30 years ago. The article aims to identify factors of successful and unsuccessful processes in giving a legislative anchor to the new organisational–legal form of Czech hospitals after 2000. There were several attempts to change the organisational–legal structure of hospitals. Just two of them succeeded to enter the decision-making phase in the Parliament, and only one led to successful approval of the Act. In the article, we use the Multiple Stream Framework (MSF) to explain how different streams (policy, politics and problem stream) couple and open a policy window that allows a policy change. We chose modified MSF, which broadens the concept by including the agenda-setting as well as decision-making processes and offers two coupling processes. In a comparison of two cases of the policy process, we identified the factors that cause closing the window before the agenda is set.

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“…The MSF posits that policy is more likely to change when a particular policy actor (policy entrepreneur) succeeds in coupling three independent streams within an open policy window. The MSF's three streams include the problem stream, which contains the challenge at hand; the policy stream that consists of the potential solutions; and the political stream that focuses on the political feasibility of support for concrete solutions (Hernandez & Bolwig, 2021; Novotný et al, 2021).…”

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Explaining public policy change in a developing country: A case study of Ghana's forest and wildlife policy

Asante

2022

Politics & Policy

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The quest for answers to global policy changes has engaged many a policy researcher's agenda. This has led to the adoption and application of various theoretical perspectives in a bid to explain the complex policy change process for better understanding. However, the highly contested reasons for policy change underpinned by context‐specific variables in the extant literature demand more empirically supported studies. This article responds by adopting the multiple streams framework (MSF) to explain and deepen understanding of why policies change in a developing African country, specifically Ghana, with the forest and wildlife policy (FWP) as a case study. Adopting a qualitative case study design, the study empirically supports the MSF assumption that the effective coupling of the three streams of problem, policy, and politics through a window of opportunity was crucial in Ghana's FWP change in 2012. This study attempts to balance practice and theory. Related Articles Brant, Hanna K., Nathan Myers, and Katherine L. Runge. 2017. “Promotion, Protection, and Entrepreneurship: Stakeholder Participation and Policy Change in the 21st Century Cures Initiative.” Politics & Policy 45(3): 372–404. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12201. Dunning, Kelly Heber. 2021. “Unlikely Conservation Policy Making in a Polarized Congress: A Multiple Streams Analysis of ‘America's Most Successful Conservation Program.’” Politics & Policy 50: 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12448. Tanaka, Yugo, Andrew Chapman, Tetsuo Tezuka, and Shigeki Sakurai. 2020. “Multiple Streams and Power Sector Policy Change: Evidence from the Feed‐in Tariff Policy Process in Japan.” Politics & Policy 48(3): 464–89. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12357.

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Refining the Multiple Streams Framework’s Integration Concept: Renewable Energy Policy and Ecological Modernization in Germany and Japan in Comparative Perspective

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References 28 publications

Advancing the Multiple Streams Framework

Advancing the Multiple Streams Framework

Reforms of Czech Hospitals in Multiple Streams Perspective: The Cases of Success and Failure

Explaining public policy change in a developing country: A case study of Ghana's forest and wildlife policy

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