scholarly journals Policy Assemblages and Policy Resilience: Lessons for Non-Design from Evolutionary Governance Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 451-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kris Hartley ◽  
Michael Howlett
Keyword(s):  
Policy Design ◽  
Linear Logic ◽  
Functional Differentiation ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Bird Nest ◽  
Design Spectrum ◽  
Path Dependencies ◽  
Governance Theory ◽  
Policy Systems ◽  
Rational Practice

Evolutionary governance theory (EGT) provides a basis for holistically analyzing the shifting contexts and dynamics of policymaking in settings with functional differentiation and complex subsystems. Policy assemblages, as mixes of policy tools and goals, are an appropriate unit of analysis for EGT because they embody the theory’s emphasis on co-evolving elements within policy systems. In rational practice, policymakers design policies within assemblages by establishing objectives, collecting information, comparing options, strategizing implementation, and selecting instruments. However, as EGT implies, this logical progression does not always materialize so tidily—some policies emerge from carefully considered blueprints while others evolve from muddled processes, laissez faire happenstance, or happy accident. Products of the latter often include loosely steered, unmoored, and ‘non-designed’ path dependencies that confound linear logic and are understudied in the policy literature. There exists the need for a more intricate analytical vocabulary to describe this underexplored ‘chaotic’ end of the policy design spectrum, as conjuring images of ‘muddles’ or ‘messes’ has exhausted its usefulness. This article introduces a novel metaphor for non-design—the bird nest—to bring studies of policy design and non-design into lexical harmony.

scholarly journals Toxic Chemical Governance Failure in the United States: Key Lessons and Paths Forward

BioScience ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (8) ◽  
pp. 615-630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariana M Chiapella ◽  
Zbigniew J Grabowski ◽  
Mary Ann Rozance ◽  
Ashlie D Denton ◽  
Manar A Alattar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
The United States ◽  
Toxic Chemicals ◽  
Toxic Chemical ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Path Dependencies ◽  
Production Policy ◽  
Monitoring And Enforcement ◽  
Over 40 Years

AbstractOver 40 years of regulations in the United States have failed to protect human and environmental health. We contend that these failures result from the flawed governance over the continued production, use, and disposal of toxic chemicals. To address this failure, we need to identify the broader social, political, and technological processes producing, knowing, and regulating toxic chemicals, collectively referred to as toxic chemical governance. To do so, we create a conceptual framework covering five key domains of governance: knowledge production, policy design, monitoring and enforcement, evaluation, and adjudication. Within each domain, social actors of varying power negotiate what constitutes acceptable risk, creating longer-term path dependencies in how they are addressed (or not). Using existing literature and five case studies, we discuss four paths for improving governance: evolving paradigms of harm, addressing bias in the knowledge base, making governance more equitable, and overcoming path dependency.

Policy Design and Evaluation for Demonstration Projects of Application of Renewable Energy Sources to Buildings in China

2013 ◽  
Vol 368-370 ◽  
pp. 1254-1261
Author(s):  
Xing Min Liu ◽  
Hong Ren ◽  
Yong Wu ◽  
Liang Yu Guo
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Renewable Energy Resources ◽  
Policy Suggestions ◽  
Assessment Systems ◽  
Policy Systems

In recent years, Chinese Government adopts series of policies and actions to advance the building application of the renewable energy resources. Based on the policies for demonstration projects of application of renewable energy sources to buildings (ARESB) in China, this article discusses the policy systems for the demonstration projects in all aspects, including application and review systems, supervision and administration systems, inspection and assessment systems, and the whole policy systems are based on promoting the advance techniques, practicalities, reasonable economy, demonstration and generalization meaning of ARESB. Based on the actual construction and operation of the demonstration projects, the article also analyzes and evaluates the implementation effects and suitability in different areas concerning each technical type, and then analyzes and evaluates issues existing in the implementation of the policies for the demonstration projects of ARESB, with further policy suggestions provided.

Business Policy

2020 ◽  
pp. 216-242
Author(s):  
Pedro B. Água ◽  
Andre Vilares Morgado
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
System Thinking ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Business Policy ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Policy Systems ◽  
Board Level

The purpose of this chapter is to explore improvements in existing corporate governing practices that are currently being implemented through methods that lag behind most of the recent developments taking place in the field of computer science. The authors suggest taking on board systems modeling by adopting a computer-assisted policy design based on system dynamics simulators. Implementing a system thinking approach to business organizations allows the designing of virtuous strategies by simulating organizational behavior. In addition, this approach may also help to mitigate unintended consequences, like risks and outcomes which may surprise the firm, particularly from the board-level perspective. The originality of the present work arrives from merging several approaches that have been around for many years, however not combined in the context of the business policy conceptual framework. Therefore, it brings together recent developments in the fields of business policy, systems thinking, and computer-assisted policy design.

A Typology of Approaches to Comparative Analysis of Sports Policy

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 480-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Henry ◽  
Mahfoud Amara ◽  
Mansour Al-Tauqi ◽  
Ping Chao Lee
Keyword(s):  
Policy Studies ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Sports Policy ◽  
Policy Systems ◽  
Type 3 ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Policy Problems ◽  
Local Levels

This article provides a four-fold typology of comparative sports policy studies: Type 1, Seeking Similarities, is a nomothetic approach seeking law-like generalization; Type 2 is Describing Difference, an ideographic approach seeking to capture the specificity of policy systems; Type 3, Theorizing the Transnational, goes beyond the nation-state as the unit of analysis to fuse global and local levels of explanation; and Type 4, Defining Discourse, seeks to analyze ways in which policy discourse defines the reality of the policy problems it seeks to address. The authors underline the ontological and epistemological assumptions of such approaches that are often only implicit, and they employ selected examples to illustrate the contribution to knowledge of the different approaches.

Religion and Modernity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Detlef Pollack ◽  
Gergely Rosta
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Functional Differentiation ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Us South ◽  
Path Dependencies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Religion And Modernity ◽  
The Relationship

This book focuses on two issues. First, it describes how the social significance of religion in its various facets has changed in modern societies. Second, it explains what factors and conditions have contributed to these changes. After discussing the two central concepts of the investigation, religion and modernity, the book presents the most important theories that deal with the relationship between the two. The empirical part, which constitutes the bulk of the book, begins by analysing religious change in selected countries in Western and Eastern Europe. For the sake of comparison, it then presents individual analyses of selected non-European cases (the US, South Korea), as well investigations of the global spread of Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism in Europe, the US, and in Brazil. On the basis of these selected case studies, which place as much emphasis on analysing the social, political, and economic contexts of religious changes as on capturing historical path dependencies, the book offers some general theoretical conclusions and identifies overarching patterns and determinants of religious change in modern and modernizing societies. In recent years, scholars of religion have become increasingly sceptical about the validity of secularization theory; the analyses contained in this book demonstrate, however, that tendencies of modernity such as functional differentiation, individualization, and pluralization are likely to inhibit the attractiveness and acceptance of religious affiliations, practices, and beliefs. Even Poland, Russia, the US, and South Korea, which have often been cited as prime examples of the vitality of religion in modern societies, display clear signs of religious decline.

Environmental Dilemmas and Policy Design

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huib Pellikaan ◽  
Robert J. van der Veen
Keyword(s):  
Policy Design

City-region governance in transitional contexts: the case of the BRICS

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Philip Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Extended Period ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
City Region ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Path Dependencies ◽  
City Regions ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Abstract The bulk of the scholarly literature on city-regions and their governance is drawn from contexts where economic and political systems have been stable over an extended period. However, many parts of the world, including all countries in the BRICS, have experienced far-reaching national transformations in the recent past in economic and/or political systems. The national transitions are complex, with a mix of continuity and rupture, while their translation into the scale of the city-region is often indirect. But, these transitions have been significant for the city-region, providing a period of opportunity and institutional fluidity. Studies of the BRICS show that outcomes of transitions are varied but that there are junctures of productive comparison including the ways in which the nature of the transitions create new path dependencies, and way in which interests across territorial scales soon consolidate, producing new rigidities in city-region governance.

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