The role of cognitive and normative frames in policy-making

Surel, Yves

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“…Policy Framing in the European Union concludes that the multilevel, changeable character of the EU political system, with its competing constituencies and contested competencies, generates a larger number of policy ideas than national level institutions (Daviter, 2011, p. 171). Similar conclusions were reached by other authors (that is, Surel, 2000;Stone Sweet et al, 2001), thus the ingenuity of this observation can be contested. However, the authors of both publications concur that a formal institutional level analysis is insufficient to predict how policy problems and different preferences for their solutions, which jointly constitute policy ideas, will play out.…”

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Policy ideas through the prism of knowledge regimes and framing

Rozbicka

2015

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Policymakers are often confronted with problems that involve ambiguity and uncertainty (Zahariadis, 2003). In order to make sense of such problems and to identify possible solutions, they are on the lookout for policy ideas. Those are defined as general information, scientific or expert knowledge, cognitive frames, representations and moral values used by various stakeholders in order to justify collective choices for public policies. More specifically, they help those stakeholders to analyse and identify policy problems and define policy solutions that can be incorporated in the public agenda (Nay, 2012). To date, scholars have had a number of takes on how policy ideas are generated and delivered to policymakers. For example, Kingdon's (1984) Multiple Streams approach explains how and why some ideas move onto the policy-making agenda, while others do not. The extensive agenda-setting literature addresses the question of the saliency of policy ideas -that is, why some ideas are important and others not -and how varying levels of salience shape the public agenda (see, for example, McCombs and Shaw, 1972). And, policy communities' studies explored the question of idea generation and delivery through means of stable networks of policymakers, interest groups and experts (see, for example, Rhodes, 1986).Two books make interesting contributions to this scholarly debate. They focus on knowledge regimes and framing as two ways in which policy ideas can be generated and delivered to policymakers. Jointly, these books advance research on policy ideas by addressing questions about: Where do ideas come from? How do ideas change? And how do these patterns vary across different policy arenas? The authors do not

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Policy ideas through the prism of knowledge regimes and framing

Rozbicka

2015

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“…In policy debate, contending frames define the societal problems that need solutions, argues Surel [1] (see Diagram 1, theory 1a, top). When social movements seek policy change, they devise 'collective action frames'.…”

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GM crops on trial: Technological development as a real-world experiment

Levidow

Carr

2007

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Through the European controversy over agricultural biotechnology, genetically modified (GM) crops have been evaluated for an increasingly wide range of potential effects. As the experimental phase has been extended into commercial practices, the terms for product approval have become more negotiable and contentious. To analyse the regulatory conflicts, this paper links three theoretical perspectives: issue-framing, agri-environmental discourses, and technological development as a real-world experiment.

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“…Furthermore, in both cases, the agents must have some basis of power or influence to (unconsciously and unintendedly) contribute to bringing about or to resist a paradigm shift (Burns et al 2009;Surel 2000;Wall et al 2015). For example, agents with a dominant position in a system, such as policymakers, can initiate paradigm changes by addressing existing policy failures or problems in new policies and regulations (Burns et al 2009).…”

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A critical hermeneutic reflection on the paradigm-level assumptions underlying responsible innovation

Timmermans

Blok

2018

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The current challenges of implementing responsible innovation (RI) can in part be traced back to the (implicit) assumptions behind the ways of thinking that ground the different pre-existing theories and approaches that are shared under the RI-umbrella. Achieving the ideals of RI, therefore not only requires a shift on an operational and systemic level but also at the paradigm-level. In order to develop a deeper understanding of this paradigm shift, this paper analyses the paradigm-level assumptions that are (implicitly) being brought forward by the different conceptualizations of RI. To this purpose it deploys (1) a pragmatic stance on paradigms that allows discerning ontological and axiological elements shared by the RI community and (2) an accompanying critical hermeneutic research approach that enables the profiling of paradigmatic beliefs and assumptions of accounts of RI. The research surfaces the distance of four salient RI accounts from the currently dominant techno-economic innovation paradigm RI seeks to shift. With this, our contribution helps to raise the self-awareness of the RI community about their presuppositions and the paradigm level barriers and enablers to reaching the RI ideal. This insight is needed for a successful transition to responsible research and innovation practices.

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The role of cognitive and normative frames in policy-making

Cited by 301 publications

References 14 publications

Policy ideas through the prism of knowledge regimes and framing

Policy ideas through the prism of knowledge regimes and framing

GM crops on trial: Technological development as a real-world experiment

A critical hermeneutic reflection on the paradigm-level assumptions underlying responsible innovation

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