Strategies in multilevel policy implementation: moving beyond the limited focus on compliance

Heidbreder, Eva G.

doi:10.1080/13501763.2017.1314540

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“…This multilevel system is similar to agencification, in which there is high ambiguity and low conflict (Heidbreder 2017). This type of system "pools authority on the supranational level, yet delegation is limited to specific tasks" (Heidbreder 2017(Heidbreder , p. 1371. It requires local agencies to have high capacity in order to implement policies.…”

Section: Flw In Multilevel Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The literature about FLW in multilevel system suggests that these contexts open space for ambiguity and uncertainty during policy implementation, driving local organizations and FLW to take on greater responsibility (Dörrenbächer 2017;Heidbreder 2017;Thomann and Sager 2017). In these settings, FLW adapt policies to embed them in local organizations.…”

Section: Flw In Multilevel Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How COVID-19 Has Affected Frontline Workers in Brazil: A Comparative Analysis of Nurses and Community Health Workers

Lotta¹,

Coelho

Brage

2020

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

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The need to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic has created challenges for services delivered by frontline workers (FLW). This paper analyzes how the Brazilian government regulated the reorganization of Primary Health Care (PHC) and how FLW responded to these initiatives, comparing the roles played by nurses and community health workers. Given the multilevel health system, it was expected that the high level of ambiguity would stimulate innovations. However, data show that the ambiguity created different situations for each profession. While nurses were able to adapt their work and act with more autonomy, CHW lost their role in the policy.

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Section: Flw In Multilevel Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Flw In Multilevel Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How COVID-19 Has Affected Frontline Workers in Brazil: A Comparative Analysis of Nurses and Community Health Workers

Lotta¹,

Coelho

Brage

2020

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

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“…Moreover, operational perspectives highlight the varieties of what could be “successful” problem‐solving—procedural, programmatic, or political (Marsh & McConnell, ; Weaver, ), while the EU MLG literature often reduces this to the question of compliance with EU decisions (Treib, ). The policy implementation perspective offers important insights into how problem tractability and issue salience as well as levels of ambiguity and conflict interact with different (EU) governance and implementation modes when affecting actual implementation success (Heidbreder, ; Matland, ; Sabatier & Mazmanian, ; Spendzharova & Versluis, ; Thomann, ; Versluis, , ).…”

Section: Notions Of Problem‐solving and Their Link With Policy Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

What's the Problem? Multilevel Governance and Problem‐Solving

Thomann¹,

Trein²,

Maggetti³

2019

European Policy Analysis

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The study of multilevel governance (MLG) is fundamentally concerned with the capacity of MLG to effectively deal with policy problems. However, the notion of problem‐solving itself remains vague. Moreover, MLG research prioritizes questions of structure and agency, while neglecting the role and nature of policy problems themselves. This symposium defines problem‐solving in both procedural and operational terms. The introduction reviews relevant attributes of policy problems and existing assumptions about their influence on problem‐solving. By adding uncertainty, tractability, and three political attributes (power, conflict, salience), we propose an extended list of attributes of policy problems that matter for problem‐solving, and link them to different notions of procedural and operational problem‐solving in MLG. The contributions address the challenges facing problem‐solving in the European Union, adopting a particular focus on the characteristics of policy problems. Empirical cases include the European Semester, Brexit, the governance of the swine flu pandemic, and climate change.

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“…This is a challenging exercise when we consider the role of legal cultures which contribute to effective enforcement strategies in different member states (Versluis 2003). Therefore, we should ensure that 'moving' direct enforcement competences to 'Brussels' is legitimate before we open a Pandora's box of constructing shared enforcement in the EU, and we should also ensure that such a complex system actually works (see Heidbreder [2017]). …”

Section: Organization Of Shared Enforcementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mind the trend! Enforcement of EU law has been moving to ‘Brussels’

Scholten

2017

Journal of European Public Policy

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The EU has become increasingly involved in enforcing European Union (EU) law, including directly vis-à-vis private actors. (Multilevel implementation) research has so far neglected the question of what role it is necessary for the EU to play in this direct enforcement of EU law in order to promote the implementation of EU policies. Given the purpose of this collection of works to discuss innovative approaches in multilevel implementation, this contribution unravels three of the EU's direct enforcement strategies. It provides original data in relation to proliferating EU entities with direct enforcement powers and to EU enforcement networks, as well as discussing the EU's growing influence over national direct enforcement via EU hard, soft and case law. It outlines the problem-solving potential of such enforcement strategies and signals the challenges that they bring along. The aim is to urge and facilitate further research on the EU's (direct) enforcement strategies, their legitimacy, effectiveness and operation.

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Strategies in multilevel policy implementation: moving beyond the limited focus on compliance

Cited by 40 publications

References 69 publications

How COVID-19 Has Affected Frontline Workers in Brazil: A Comparative Analysis of Nurses and Community Health Workers

How COVID-19 Has Affected Frontline Workers in Brazil: A Comparative Analysis of Nurses and Community Health Workers

What's the Problem? Multilevel Governance and Problem‐Solving

Mind the trend! Enforcement of EU law has been moving to ‘Brussels’

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