What Is Next for Policy Design and Social Construction Theory?<sup>1</sup>

Schneider, Anne L.; Sidney, Mara

doi:10.1111/j.1541-0072.2008.00298.x

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“…Other characteristics of policy design such as the target group selection (Schneider and Sidney 2009), or other dimensions of governance processes such as the role of agency and leadership in actor coalitions (Meijerink and Stiller 2013), or the types of networks and modes of interactions involved need to be investigated to fully understand or perhaps even fill the implementation deficit of adaptation policy.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Adaptation Policy Paradox: the Implementation Deficit of Policies Framed as Climate Change Adaptation

Dupuis¹,

Knoepfel²

2013

E&S

108

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ABSTRACT. The implementation of adaptation policies suffers from barriers and limits; even though adaptation is now set on the political agendas of developed and developing countries, surprisingly few examples of concrete policy realizations are found in comparative assessments. We investigate how the framings of adaptation as a policy problem can relate to tractability issues in implementation. We distinguish three framings of adaptation: climate change adaptation (CCA), climate variability adaptation (CVA), and vulnerability-centered adaptation (VCA) that imply conflicting interpretations of the collective problem to be solved and the goals to be attained through policy solutions. Through the methodology of comparative case studies, we conduct an empirical analysis of three implementation processes in India and Switzerland, and examine how adaptation framings translate into formal policy design and concrete policy realizations. We find that, regardless of the adaptive capacity of the country where implementation takes place, the CCA framing meets more tractability issues than the VCA framing. Therefore, we discuss the paradox that the innovative and additional CCA types of policies, advocated by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), are more likely to face a deficit in implementation according to our analysis.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Adaptation Policy Paradox: the Implementation Deficit of Policies Framed as Climate Change Adaptation

Dupuis¹,

Knoepfel²

2013

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108

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“…SKB has had the power to define the waste problem, undertake research and to determine (or construct) what is to be conceived as a practical, sustainable and legitimate solution for spent fuel (cf. Hjern and Porter 1981;Dery 1984;Bacchi 1999;Hanberger 2001;Colebatch 2006;Schneider and Sidney 2009).…”

Section: Dialogue Policy In Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Dialogue as nuclear waste management policy: can a Swedish transparency programme legitimise a final decision on spent nuclear fuel?

Hanberger

2012

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

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The purpose of this article is to discuss Swedish nuclear waste management policy and assess whether a transparency programme has affected the policy discourse and contributed to legitimatising the forthcoming government decision on a final solution for spent nuclear fuel. The transparency programme implemented by the National Council for Nuclear Waste (NW Council) consisted of two main activities: dialogue meetings and public hearings for deliberating on different aspects of the waste issue. Lessons are drawn from an evaluation of the programme. The article concludes that the NW Council has implemented the government's legitimatisation policy by its existence and through the transparency programme, but achieving long lasting legitimacy is a complicated matter. Dialogue meetings and public hearings are reasonable measures; whether these measures are sufficient to legitimatise the final decision also depends on how the appropriate state agencies and the government justify their assessments and decisions regarding the long-term safety, security and sustainability of the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company's proposed final repository. The dialogue policy and transparency programme, however, has failed to influence the key decisions which remain in the control of the powerful interests, most notable Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB) and the government.

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“…In this thesis the theoretical framework of policy analysis is policy design theory. Schneider & Sidney (2009) and Schneider & Ingram (1997) argue that policy is always designed. This means that all policies have a specific architecture and the enterprise of policy analysis is to, in any given policy area, discern the elements that together make a design.…”

Section: Analysing Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The construction of targets is essential when allocating resources between different citizen groups (Stone, 2012;Schneider & Sidney, 2009;Schneider & Ingram, 1997), and in the arena of social policy, concerning the issue of allocating resources between different citizens, the target is commonly a group of people (Schneider & Ingram, 1997), such as people living with dementia. Schneider and Ingram (1997, s 75) describe the social construction of target groups as "the images, stereotypes, and beliefs that confer identities on people and connect them with others as a social group who are possible candidates for receiving beneficial or burdensome policy".…”

Section: Targetsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, policies must not only be formed and implemented but have to be designed and policy design involves specific elements which influences how policies can be formed (Schneider & Sidney, 2009;Schneider & Ingram 1997). Before I explain Schneider & Ingram's (1997) model of policy design I will present an explanation of how to understand what policy is.…”

Section: Policy Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social citizenship and people with dementia : Designing social care policies in Sweden

Nordh¹

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iii ABSTRACTPeople with dementia are commonly in need of some form of social care from the social services in order to manage their everyday situations. However, social services are shaped by the construction of policy targets, i.e. the construction of people with dementia as citizens. The aim of this dissertation is to explore the social citizenship of people with dementia. Social citizenship for people with dementia is explored by studying how people with dementia have, in policy documents, been constructed as a target group, and also by studying how policies are enacted in practice by care managers, in their work and in their meetings with people with dementia. This is illustrated by studying policy documents from national level which range over nearly 40 years. It is shown that, if and when people with dementia are visible in policy documents, they commonly have a negative construction based on their cognitive and communicative abilities, and they are constructed as a burden, disturbing and incapable, wherein focus lies in their negative attributes. We further investigate in this dissertation, how street-level bureaucrats, in this case care managers, experience meeting with people with dementia when they apply for social services. This part of the dissertation is built upon 19 interviews with care managers from four different organisations, which show that care managers experience difficulties in their meetings with people with dementia. These difficulties comprise the exchange of information between care managers and people with dementia, refusal of social services by the person with dementia, the influence of relatives and other professions as well as moral dilemmas, such as the relations between the person with dementia and their relatives. The study also shows that care managers have little support from policies, e.g. legislation and guidelines, in how to handle these dilemmas, and must thus create their own local ways of handling these situations. This requires that care managers are influential policy actors concerning the policy target group of people with dementia.The policy processes which this dissertation illustrates, affect the social citizenship of people with dementia. It is shown that they, to an extent, have difficulties in influencing their own everyday situation concerning social services. Finally, the policy processes, such as the construction of people with dementia as well as the policy practice in which they encounter care managers, will affect their possibility to influence their social citizenship.Keywords: Social citizenship, people with dementia, policy, policy practice, policy actors, street-level bureaucrats, social work, care managers, rights Abstract iv Personer med demenssjukdom behöver vanligtvis någon form av socialt stöd från socialtjänsten för att kunna hantera sin egen vardag. Emellertid så är socialt stöd format av konstruktionen av policymålgrupper, dvs konstruktionen av personer med demenssjukdom som medborgare. Syftet med denna avhandling är att undersöka det ...

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What Is Next for Policy Design and Social Construction Theory?¹

Cited by 238 publications

References 22 publications

The Adaptation Policy Paradox: the Implementation Deficit of Policies Framed as Climate Change Adaptation

The Adaptation Policy Paradox: the Implementation Deficit of Policies Framed as Climate Change Adaptation

Dialogue as nuclear waste management policy: can a Swedish transparency programme legitimise a final decision on spent nuclear fuel?

Social citizenship and people with dementia : Designing social care policies in Sweden

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Cited by 238 publications

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The Adaptation Policy Paradox: the Implementation Deficit of Policies Framed as Climate Change Adaptation

The Adaptation Policy Paradox: the Implementation Deficit of Policies Framed as Climate Change Adaptation

Dialogue as nuclear waste management policy: can a Swedish transparency programme legitimise a final decision on spent nuclear fuel?

Social citizenship and people with dementia : Designing social care policies in Sweden

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