Understanding Policy Change as an Epistemological and Theoretical Problem

Capano, Giliberto

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“…Although this attempt may feed into the problem of the dependent variable, by adding to the complexity of the explanandum (i.e. policy change) (Capano 2009;Howlett and Cashore 2009), the reasons to leave the activities of IOs outside the purview of policy studies are not substantive. Indeed, most international organizations take actions to solve societal problems similarly to what is expected from public policies.…”

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Lagged Learning and the Response to Equilibrium Shock: The Global Financial Crisis and IMF Surveillance

Moschella

2011

J. Pub. Pol.

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The paper investigates the changes to the Fund's bilateral surveillance policy in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007-09 asking about the factors that caused the quick and deep shift to a systemic surveillance approach. In answering this question, the paper argues that the causes of the quick and deep transformation of IMF surveillance lie in the preceding two decades of incremental accumulation of knowledge and small transformations in policy instruments and organizational practices. In identifying the causes of present policy choices in the lessons drawn from past experience, the paper provides an example of lagged learning because the lessons drawn from the 1990s emerging market crises exerted their full impact only as a response to the global financial crisis. These findings therefore contribute to the literature that aims at showing the importance of temporality and process sequencing to explain policy change.

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Lagged Learning and the Response to Equilibrium Shock: The Global Financial Crisis and IMF Surveillance

Moschella

2011

J. Pub. Pol.

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“…Estas preguntas se pueden priorizar y tratar de manera distinta en función de preferencias epistemológicas y teóricas diferentes. En particular, estas preferencias afectan la importancia relativa dada al sentido y la dinámica del desarrollo de las políticas y el énfasis en sus variables independientes (Capano 2009). En ese sentido, una preferencia por el cambio linear o no linear se enfrenta con el problema de elegir entre explicaciones cumulativas o adaptativas.…”

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“…Los mecanismos causales dependen de la resolución del dilema entre causalidad lineal y condicional y el énfasis en las variables independientes endógenas y exógenas (Sabatier 1988). Ello remite a la elección entre distintos tipos de variables explicativas o los factores de elaboración de políticas, según si se define a las políticas como escenarios de poder, instituciones, foros de debates, blancos principales de la influencia de las instituciones políticas o acervos de relaciones en red y escenarios de redes (Capano 2009). …”

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“…Ello ha llevado a la multiplicación de teorías incapaces de dialogar en una base común (Howlett y Migone 2011) y la construcción ad hoc de marcos analíticos que desconocen los problemas de circularidad, exogenidad y multicausalidad. También ha dado lugar a "enfoques teóricos" mixtos que pretenden combinar distintos marcos analíticos y métodos (Palier y Surel 2005;Real-Dato 2009), lo cual plantea problemas de alineación metodológica, pues la manera de concebir los problemas del mundo real determina la manera de construir teorías y comprobarlas empíricamente (Hall 2003;Capano 2009;Beach y Pedersen 2016).…”

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Presentación Dossier. Lecciones de América Latina sobre las dimensiones racionales, cognitivas e institucionales del cambio de políticas

Fontaine

2015

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<p> </p><div> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-no-proof: yes;" lang="ES-TRAD"><span style="font-size: medium;">La revisión de la literatura especializada lleva a identificar tres tipos de enfoques analíticos del cambio de políticas. Los racionalistas –con las teorías del incrementalismo, las corrientes múltiples y el equilibrio puntuado– privilegian el proceso de toma de decisión y la racionalidad (limitada) de los actores. Los cognitivistas –con el marco analítico de coaliciones promotoras, la teoría de los referenciales globales/sectoriales y la teoría crítica– hacen hincapié en las representaciones de los problemas de políticas y los discursos legitimadores de decisiones. Los neoinstitucionalistas –con las teorías de la lógica de lo adecuado, la dependencia de la trayectoria y los tres órdenes de cambio de políticas– subrayan la importancia de las instituciones formales e informales en el desenvolvimiento de las políticas públicas.</span></span></p></div>

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“…From their basic understanding of policy change, we can infer the role tipping points and symbolic innovations play within the process of policy change (Howlett and Rayner 2006, Capano 2009, Van der Heijden 2013. First, the path dependency approach argues that early, rather stochastic events in a sequence have significant influence on the trajectory due to reinforcing mechanisms, whereas later events are inertial (Hall 1993, Mahoney 2000, Hacker 2004.…”

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The innovativeness of national policy portfolios – climate policy change in Austria, Germany, and the UK

Schaffrin

Sewerin

Seubert

2014

Environmental Politics

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To determine whether innovations in policy concerning climate-change mitigation are symbolic or truly radical in the sense of 'tipping' existing policy portfolios towards a new instrumental logic, we study policy innovations in the context of pre-existing policy portfolios and analyse the associated dynamics over time. Our analysis is facilitated by a new measurement of policy output, the Index of Climate Policy Activity. This new approach sheds light on the relative importance of policy innovations in complex policy portfolios, and serves as a blueprint for further analyses of the politics of policy innovation. Empirically, we analyse policy innovations within the policy portfolios of energy production in Austria, Germany, and the UK between 1998 and 2010. We find high stability in the instrumental logic but substantial change in policy settings and calibrations.

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Understanding Policy Change as an Epistemological and Theoretical Problem

Cited by 191 publications

References 29 publications

Lagged Learning and the Response to Equilibrium Shock: The Global Financial Crisis and IMF Surveillance

Lagged Learning and the Response to Equilibrium Shock: The Global Financial Crisis and IMF Surveillance

Presentación Dossier. Lecciones de América Latina sobre las dimensiones racionales, cognitivas e institucionales del cambio de políticas

The innovativeness of national policy portfolios – climate policy change in Austria, Germany, and the UK

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