Policy theories in hard times?: assessing the explanatory power of policy theories in the context of crisis
Can the behavior of political actors in business-as-usual conditions be analyzed with the same theoretical framework as decision-making in situations characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, complexity and urgency? After comparing major existing approaches and evaluating their explanatory logic unde...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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Public organization review
Year: 2017, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 97-118 |
| ISSN: | 1573-7098 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11115-017-0387-1 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-017-0387-1
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| Author Notes: | Georg Wenzelburger, Pascal D. König, Frieder Wolf |
| Summary: | Can the behavior of political actors in business-as-usual conditions be analyzed with the same theoretical framework as decision-making in situations characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, complexity and urgency? After comparing major existing approaches and evaluating their explanatory logic under crisis circumstances, the present article develops a theoretical framework which explicitly accounts for the crisis characteristics at two stages of the policy making process, agenda-setting and decision-making. The bearing of policy-entrepreneurs, international networks, institutions and partisanship on policy outcomes critically depends on the specific workings on these levels in crisis-mode. These expectations are probed in an empirical re-evaluation of the 2011 Spanish pension reform. |
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| Item Description: | Published online: 26 August 2017 Gesehen am 22.04.2020 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1573-7098 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11115-017-0387-1 |