Understanding how actors influence policy implementation : a comparative study of wetland restorations in New Jersey, Oregon, The Netherlands and Finland

Owens, Katharine A.

doi:10.3990/1.9789036526982

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“…3.1 we include these factors: their motivations that may spur the actors into action, their cognitions, information held to be true, and their resources, providing them with capacity to act individually and power in relation to other actors. Among the actors involved in the process there need to be a sufficiently strong combination of motivations, cognitions and resources to enable the process to succeed (Bressers 2004;Owens 2008). The basic assumptions of Contextual Interaction Theory are quite simple and straightforward.…”

Section: Understanding Policy Implementation As Multi-actor Interactimentioning

confidence: 99%

The Governance Assessment Tool and Its Use

Bressers

Bressers²,

Kuks

et al. 2016

Governance for Drought Resilience

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Section: Understanding Policy Implementation As Multi-actor Interactimentioning

confidence: 99%

The Governance Assessment Tool and Its Use

Bressers

Bressers²,

Kuks

et al. 2016

Governance for Drought Resilience

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“…The techniques are listed in the order of their impact on the research findings, in terms of the informational richness offered by the respective sources. The following research techniques were used (Dinica 2009 In relation to farmers, empirical information was extracted from several publications that were found to contain rich and very relevant references to boundary judgments and the frameworks' variables: Owens (2008), Arcadis (2008) and PCO (2007). 6 The findings on farmers with regard to research question (1) and, to some extent, (2), rely on indirect sources.…”

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Competing societal and ecological demands for groundwater: boundary judgments and convergence mechanisms in the Netherlands

Dinica

2013

Environ Dev Sustain

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Conflicts between human demands for clean water and terrestrial ecosystems' needs for water are increasing. Such conflicts are stronger in the case of groundwater, as one of the cleanest forms of drinking water, and are expected to increase in frequency, in the context of population growth and climatic changes. This paper argues that behavioral approaches are essential not only toward understanding how socio-ecological conflicts emerge, but also how they could be overcome. A theoretical the framework is proposed, which suggests that the behaviors/actions of actors who sustain such conflicts can be understood by examining their 'boundary judgments' regarding natural resources and sustainability, in interaction with their powers/resources to implement the preferred behaviors. The concept of boundary judgements is rarely used in investigating sustainability conflicts. This concept is operationalized in relation to nature-society conflicts and applied empirically to illuminate the conflict in a case study from the Netherlands. Further, the theoretical framework suggests a parsimonious, yet comprehensive, typology of mechanisms that can be used to change/'converge' the behaviors and actions of the actors contributing to the problem, toward conflict closure. These are referred to as convergence mechanisms and can be persuasive, enabling or constraining. The paper concludes with reflections on the practical usefulness of the framework and concretes suggestions for further research, drawing on these convergence mechanisms and their interactions with boundary judgments on natural resources and sustainability.

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“…It is critical as for policy implementation to be successful, the agents who take part in the process, the policy agents have to be sufficiently motivated, have the required resources, and have power, information and authority to do what is required (Owens, 2008). Motivation, cognition and resources also influence the agents' standpoint regarding the policy in question and in turn their position and activities and interaction with other agents in the policy network (Bressers, 2004).…”

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“…The theory outlines the factors that can potentially affect the policy implementation processes namely: characteristics of policy actors and interactions, cognition, motivation, resources and power, the setting and coherence of the public governance (Bressers, 2004). The theory has been used widely in (1) environmental sciences to analyse policy implementation (Bressers and Lulofs, 2010;Vazquez-Brust and Sarkis, 2012;Owens, 2008;Boer et al, 2013); (2) to investigate Human Immune Virus policy implementation barriers and prevention of infectious diseases (Spratt, 2013;Bakari and Frumence, 2013) and (3) to study the implementation of domestic violence law (Javakhisvhili, 2011). The following section presents the key concepts of the theory.…”

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The Impact of Contextual Factors on the Implementation of Government E‐Strategy in Previously Disadvantaged Areas in Cape Town

Mooketsi

Chigona

2016

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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Despite the fact that it has been established that contextual factors affect implementation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) projects, there is a dearth of information on how these were addressed in the implementation of the whitepaper on e-education in schools in previously disadvantaged areas in South Africa. This interpretive study, guided by contextual interaction theory, examines the impact of contextual factors in the implementation of ICT in schools in previously disadvantaged areas. The findings show that the implementation context and the history of the implementers and other issues that are in no way related to the implementation process affect the implementation process and outcomes. The results of this study offer those who carry out ICT in education implementation projects in disadvantaged areas in South Africa and similar contexts elsewhere insights into the Information Systems implementation dynamics. Key Words: ICT Implementation; Impact of Contextual Factors on Implementation; EGovernment Strategy; Policy Implementation; Education 1RESEARCH PROBLEM Despite the noble intentions and efforts driving implementation of information and communication technology (ICT) in education, the integration of ICT's into teaching and learning has been wrought with challenges (Ford and Botha, 2010). Researchers have evaluated the adoption of ICT's in education from different dimensions such as community informatics, digital divide, adoption barriers and self-efficacy issues. Studies show that there are problems realising the associated benefits of the ICT investments, inadequate ICT resources, limited access to the Internet, technophobia and age related adoption issues as older teachers have been found to struggle to adapt to using ICT for teaching and learning; shortage of skilled teachers to teach ICT subjects and security issues. Social status of the potential users of ICT's has also been found to have a bearing on computer use and experience. It has also been established that there are issues with the high costs of acquiring and setting up ICT-based Management Information Systems (Wilson-Strydom and Thomson, 2005;Ford and Botha, 2010;Hodgkinson-Williams et al., 2007; Ng'ambi and Brown, 2004; Tas and Tatnal, 2010). Studies that have looked at the implementation process of the whitepaper have established that the implementation process is besieged with "dispersed and uncoordinated" implementation programmes and projects (Ford and Botha, 2010 p.1). These findings are not surprising as literature shows that planning and management of ICT projects is poorly done in developing countries (Galliers et al. 1998;Heeks, 2002).Predominantly, existing studies have not focused on how the implementation process and context could have affected the implementation outcomes. The studies evaluate the successes and challenges faced by teachers in using ICT for teaching and learning. Whilst evaluation of ICT projects is problematic and subjective, research has shown that evaluation studies ought to investi...

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Understanding how actors influence policy implementation : a comparative study of wetland restorations in New Jersey, Oregon, The Netherlands and Finland

Cited by 34 publications

References 50 publications

The Governance Assessment Tool and Its Use

The Governance Assessment Tool and Its Use

Competing societal and ecological demands for groundwater: boundary judgments and convergence mechanisms in the Netherlands

The Impact of Contextual Factors on the Implementation of Government E‐Strategy in Previously Disadvantaged Areas in Cape Town

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