The rise and fall of a policy: policy succession and the attempted termination of ecological corridors policy in the Netherlands

Turnhout, Esther

doi:10.1007/s11077-009-9076-4

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“…Programs or policies that are perceived as ineffective or inefficient are more likely to be abandoned. Some case studies support the logic of this relationship (Turnhout, ), but other research cites the political nature of program termination decisions and posits that analytical findings of program ineffectiveness are insufficient to result in termination (deLeon, ; Volden, ). Empirical studies often do not include measures of program effectiveness or provide little additional insight into the nature of its influence.…”

Section: Termination Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finally, perceived levels of effectiveness influence decisions to pursue or abandon policy commitments (Turnhout, ; Volden, ). ICLEI utilizes an approach based on the achievement of five milestones to facilitate GHG emission reductions.…”

Section: Trends In Us Local Climate Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The relative lack of termination studies has also been attributed to policy abandonment being a rare event as a result of governmental stability, which some might less graciously call governmental inertia (Bardach, ; Geva‐May, ). Institutional resistance and financial, legal, and political costs are among the barriers that limit the frequency of clear, explicit terminations (Dur, ; Geva‐May, 2001; Turnhout, ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Applying Policy Termination Theory to the Abandonment of Climate Protection Initiatives by U.S. Local Governments

Krause¹,

Yi²,

Feiock³

2015

Policy Studies Journal

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A considerable amount is known about the factors that influence policy adoption and implementation across different issue areas. Less is known, however, about the factors that influence governments to abandon programs or policies prior to reaching their stated objectives or originally specified endpoints. This article applies termination theory to local climate protection initiatives and examines cities' withdrawal from the dominant sustainability organization facilitating these efforts. In the face of national government inaction, large numbers of U.S. municipalities voluntarily committed to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and joined the ICLEI's Climate Protection program. After steady membership increases for nearly a decade, ICLEI attained its largest size in 2010 with 565 city members. Over the next 2 years, this number plummeted by 20 percent. Positioned in the literature on policy change, we empirically test three hypotheses for why a substantial portion of cities ended their affiliation with this organization and terminated the explicit climate protection objectives associated with it: (1) political ideology and interest group pressure, (2) fiscal constraints, and (3) perceived program ineffectiveness. Analytical results support the first and third hypotheses. We identify factors that influence the termination of local GHG reduction initiatives and discuss theoretical implications of these findings.

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Section: Termination Studiesmentioning

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Feiock³

2015

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“…This shifted in the 1980s when ecologists, working at the LNV, were influenced by developments in theories of island biogeography and metapopulations that had become popular (MNP interview 051029;Turnhout 2009). This shift helped scientists to frame landscape fragmentation as a public policy problem.…”

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Dissolving Decision Making? Models and Their Roles in Decision-Making Processes and Policy at Large

Zeiss¹,

Egmond²

2014

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ArgumentThis article studies the roles three science-based models play in Dutch policy and decision making processes. Key is the interaction between model construction and environment. Their political and scientific environments form contexts that shape the roles of models in policy decision making. Attention is paid to three aspects of the wider context of the models: a) the history of the construction process; b) (changes in) the political and scientific environments; and c) the use in policy processes over longer periods of time. Models are more successfully used when they are constructed in a stable political and scientific environment. Stability and certainty within a scientific field seems to be a key predictor for the usefulness of models for policy making. The economic model is more disputed than the ecology-based model and the model that has its theoretical foundation in physics and chemistry. The roles models play in policy processes are too complex to be considered as straightforward technocratic powers.

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“…Second, our focus on policy termination at the level of local (municipal) government and outside of the United States is relatively rare (for some exceptions see Doberstein, ; Ferry & Bachtler, ; Turnhout, ). Decision making at the local level is distinctive in a number of ways of importance for policy termination; local decision makers are closest to those who support or oppose the policy, interest group activity is felt more acutely, and thus the consequences of termination are especially clear (Graddy & Ye, ).…”

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Politics, Science, and Termination: A Case Study of Water Fluoridation Policy in Calgary in 2011

O’Neill

Kapoor

McLaren

2018

Review of Policy Research

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Policy termination is identified as a rare occurrence and thus difficult to study. However, one policy area, community water fluoridation, has seen an apparent increase in termination in recent years. We examine the specific case of termination in Calgary, Alberta in 2011 with a specific goal to apply Kingdon's Multiple Streams Approach to the policy termination framework. Our findings suggest that of key importance for the termination of water fluoridation was the impending need for an upgrade to the fluoridation infrastructure, the effectiveness of the local anti‐fluoridation activists, the speed of decision making, and a prominent framing of the issue in ethical terms. The opening of a policy window made possible by the 2010 Calgary municipal election, one that introduced a number of new members to council, as well as the presence of a policy entrepreneur who took advantage of the window's opening, were of specific importance to the success of policy termination.

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The rise and fall of a policy: policy succession and the attempted termination of ecological corridors policy in the Netherlands

Cited by 23 publications

References 16 publications

Applying Policy Termination Theory to the Abandonment of Climate Protection Initiatives by U.S. Local Governments

Applying Policy Termination Theory to the Abandonment of Climate Protection Initiatives by U.S. Local Governments

Dissolving Decision Making? Models and Their Roles in Decision-Making Processes and Policy at Large

Politics, Science, and Termination: A Case Study of Water Fluoridation Policy in Calgary in 2011

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