Understanding coherence between policy spheres

Lenschow, Andrea; Bocquillon, Pierre; Carafa, Luigi

doi:10.1002/eet.1818

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“…Previous research in this field distinguishes between horizontal and vertical policy coherence, referring to coherence across and within policy systems (e.g., Lenschow et al, 2018;Nilsson et al, 2012 1 ). This theoretical distinction offers a more refined and comprehensive picture of the degree of policy coherence and will therefore guide our study.…”

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“…This is a key feature of effective governance systems, and the concept is attracting increased attention in the contemporary governance literature (cf. Lenschow, Bocquillon, & Carafa, 2018;May et al, 2016). Following the assertion above-that the design of new governance systems entails a trade-off between many equally important qualities-we acknowledge that policy coherence, which is positively associated with effectiveness due to enhanced implementation, can have undesirable consequences for other virtues, such as the systems' ability to adapt or gain legitimacy among concerned stakeholders.…”

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Assessing and explaining policy coherence: A comparative study of water governance and large carnivore governance in Sweden

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This paper explores the relationship between different types of multilevel governance systems and policy coherence (i.e., uniformity of goals and rules) through a study of the governance systems for water and large carnivores in Sweden. The study objects represent multilevel governance systems for contested natural resources in the same national context, although in different policy areas and with substantial differences in institutional arrangements. We define the characteristics of each governance system through an institutional analysis of official records and compare their perceived ability to promote coherence through a statistical analysis of survey data. Our empirical results both support and problematize common ideas about how different institutional features relate to policy coherence in multilevel governance. The results clearly indicate that multilevel governance systems are challenged by conflicting goals and rules, both within and across governance systems, and that the capacity to address these difficulties is generally perceived as wanting in both types of systems. The results tentatively suggest that clashes with other governance systems are more prominent in polycentric and ecologically based systems, whereas internal goal and rule conflicts are more prevalent in centralized and more traditionally organized systems. The findings contribute to our understanding of the quandaries associated with the design of new governance systems. The study also contributes important insights into what features to focus on in attempts to mitigate the downsides of different institutional arrangements in multilevel governance systems.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Section: Horizontal and Vertical Policy Coherencementioning

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Assessing and explaining policy coherence: A comparative study of water governance and large carnivore governance in Sweden

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“…Consequently, many policy integration conceptualizations address design aspects or dimensions. The latter relate either to the nature of the complex problems that the integrated strategy needs to focus on, or to the way in which it manifests itself in the designed objectives and instruments, or the way in which the stakeholders are involved and coordinated [13,14,19,[25][26][27]. Design thus attracts special attention, because many difficulties encountered by policy integration strategies are believed to stem from design deficiencies, the designs failing to adequately incorporate complexity into the policy's formulation.…”

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Integrality in the Design of Urban Development Plans. Analysis of the Initiatives Promoted by the EU in Spain

Dorado-Rubín

Guerrero-Mayo

Navarro

2021

Land

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Policy integration is a substantive and innovative strategy, used to address complex problems that go beyond the scope of sectoral policies, and require a joint and integrated response. While theoretical advances have been made in the field, there have not been many empirical proposals of a comparative nature. This paper develops a proposal for the analysis of integrality in the domain of urban policies, in which the integrated strategy has become a key component. Following a literature review, three dimensions were defined, referring to the diagnosis, the action strategy, and the project governance, which have allowed us to examine the presence of an integrated strategy in the designs of the projects developed within the framework of the URBAN and URBANA, initiatives implemented in Spain between 1994 and 2013, promoted by the European Union (EU). The results show that, as occurs in other public policies, the extent of the integrated strategy is limited and varies according to the dimensions. Moreover, the differences found between the two initiatives support the idea that policy integration is a gradual and dynamic process, with a certain learning effect, which develops over time and in which the dimensions of integration do not evolve in a coordinated manner.

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“…Lenschow et al (2018) also clarify that coordination, collaboration or cooperation are mechanisms (or processes) contributing to policy coherence, but distinct concepts.…”

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Governing plastic pollution in the oceans: Institutional challenges and areas for action

Ferraro

Failler

2020

Environmental Science & Policy

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Understanding coherence between policy spheres

Cited by 31 publications

References 32 publications

Assessing and explaining policy coherence: A comparative study of water governance and large carnivore governance in Sweden

Assessing and explaining policy coherence: A comparative study of water governance and large carnivore governance in Sweden

Integrality in the Design of Urban Development Plans. Analysis of the Initiatives Promoted by the EU in Spain

Governing plastic pollution in the oceans: Institutional challenges and areas for action

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