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Carsten Daugbjerg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Reforming the CAP: Policy Networks and Broader Institutional Structures
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 1999Co-Authors: Carsten DaugbjergAbstract:The article develops an analytical framework to analyse how Policy Networks and the broader institutional context in which they are embedded influence reform outcomes. The framework is applied in a study of the European Community’s (Ecrsquo;s) agricultural Policy reform in 1992. Firstly, it is shown that the EC agricultural Policy Network led agricultural Policy-makers in the direction of moderate rather than fundamental reform. Secondly, the article shows how the broader institutional structure of the EC made radical reform an almost hopeless objective to pursue because the whole decision-making structure allowed the existence of many veto points which could be used to block radical changes. Thus, the article demonstrates that at EU level, Policy Network analysis is a useful approach in particular, if it is supplemented by a macro-level analysis of the broader institutional context within which Networks are embedded. Finally, the article concludes that in the future, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is likely to follow the previous path of moderate reforms.
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Policy Networks Under Pressure: Pollution Control, Policy Reform and the Power of Farmers
1998Co-Authors: Carsten DaugbjergAbstract:Policy Networks - a critical review Policy Networks and Policy change - a meso-level analysis moving beyond meso-level analysis classifying Policy reforms and new policies Danish and Swedish nitrate policies agricultural Policy reforms in the European Community and Sweden cohesion of agricultural Policy Networks farmers' structural power in parliament and state structures conclusion - a defence of Policy Network analysis.
Michael C Mccoy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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belief systems and social capital as drivers of Policy Network structure the case of california regional planning
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2011Co-Authors: Adam Douglas Henry, Mark Lubell, Michael C MccoyAbstract:This article uses exponential random graph models to investigate the roles of Policy-relevant beliefs and social capital as drivers of Network structure. The advocacy coalition framework argues that actors with similar Policy beliefs are more likely to form coalitions, leading to Policy subsystems fragmented into ideological groups. Social capital is defined as trust and norms of reciprocity, which helps cement cooperative relationships. Hypotheses are tested using survey data of Policy elites involved in land-use and transportation planning in four regions of California. The findings suggest that coalitions of actors with similar belief systems are knit together by Policy brokers seeking to build transitive social relationships.
Maria Brockhaus - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Usual and unusual suspects: What Network analysis can tell us about climate Policy integration
2020Co-Authors: Emilia Pramova, Monica Di Gregorio, Bruno Locatelli, Maria BrockhausAbstract:Key messages: Understanding adaptation-mitigation linkages helps identify co-benefits and reduce negative interactions between the two climate change domains. Barriers include working in institutional silos and lack of information: adaptation actors are not well-informed about mitigation actions and vice-versa. Policy Network analysis sheds light on adaptation-mitigation actor interactions and what can be done to improve them. It reveals both the usual and unusual suspects who can foster linkages between the two domains. This InfoBrief summarizes the findings of a climate change Policy Network analysis conducted in Peru and published in the journal Climate Policy (Locatelli et al. 2020).
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REDD+ Policy Networks: exploring actors and power structures in an emerging Policy domain
Ecology and Society, 2014Co-Authors: Maria Brockhaus, Monica Di Gregorio, Rachel CarmentaAbstract:Policy making is often neither rational nor solution-oriented, but driven by negotiations of interests of multiple actors that increasingly tend to take place in Policy Networks. Such Policy Networks integrate societal actors beyond the state, which all aim, to different degrees, at influencing ongoing Policy processes and outcomes. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) can be considered as such an emerging Policy domain, in which actors cooperate and conflict in Network structures, build coalitions and try to control information and finance flows relevant for REDD+ decision making. This special feature is the result of an extensive comparative research effort to investigate national level REDD+ Policy processes and emerging Policy Networks. This unique collection of seven country cases and a comparative study provides evidence on how power, coalitions, and different interactions among actors in Policy Networks enable the transformational change required for an effective, efficient, and equitable national REDD+ design. However, as we will see in most of the cases, where the dominant coalitions fail to tackle the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, they also hinder such major Policy reforms required for REDD+. The aim of this editorial serves four purposes: first, we provide an argument about "why" Policy Network analysis is highly relevant to the study of REDD+ Policy processes; second, we explain "how" Policy Network analysis is used in this special feature to investigate Policy processes in this domain; and third, we explore the "so what?" or how a Policy Network lens helps us understand the political opportunities and challenges for REDD+. Finally, we provide an outlook for the relevance and future research design of Policy Network analysis when applied to REDD+ and to Policy Network structures more broadly.
Terrence R Guay - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the role of multinational corporations in transnational institution building a Policy Network perspective
Human Relations, 2006Co-Authors: Nicolas M Dahan, Jonathan P Doh, Terrence R GuayAbstract:In this article, we provide a critique and re-specification of international business and institutional literature related to the interactions of multinational corporations (MNCs) and institutions. Drawing from research in economic sociology and political economy, we offer a novel perspective on MNCs’ influence on transnational institution building. We argue that MNCs seek to influence institutional development by creating or participating in Policy Networks within transnational social and economic systems. We describe different types of Policy Networks, the relative position that MNCs occupy within them, and the power MNCs yield by virtue of their position and influence within those Networks. We provide examples to illustrate how MNCs exploit these Network relationships to influence emergent institutions and to advance convergence in institutional policies. The Policy Network perspective is an effective and useful mode of analysis to understand the range of interactions among MNCs and the institutional f...
Adam Douglas Henry - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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belief systems and social capital as drivers of Policy Network structure the case of california regional planning
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2011Co-Authors: Adam Douglas Henry, Mark Lubell, Michael C MccoyAbstract:This article uses exponential random graph models to investigate the roles of Policy-relevant beliefs and social capital as drivers of Network structure. The advocacy coalition framework argues that actors with similar Policy beliefs are more likely to form coalitions, leading to Policy subsystems fragmented into ideological groups. Social capital is defined as trust and norms of reciprocity, which helps cement cooperative relationships. Hypotheses are tested using survey data of Policy elites involved in land-use and transportation planning in four regions of California. The findings suggest that coalitions of actors with similar belief systems are knit together by Policy brokers seeking to build transitive social relationships.
