Ruth Hoppe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1196922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Hoppe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoppe |
| SIGNATURE | HOPPE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Twente |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2603-2313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 217 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Problem structuring, wrong-problem problems and metagovernance as the strategic management of intractable positions: The case of the EU GM Crop Regulatory Framework controversy
Analyses of ‘wicked problems’ often lead to recommendations for collaborative governance as a metagovernance solution. The case of deadlocked European Union genetically modified crop authorization processes offers a good example. However, the stalemate is not the result of the inherent ‘wickedness’ of the problem posed by the risk of genetic modification technology applied to agricultural production of food and feed. Rather, the policy lock-in re…
Policy, governing and politicality
This Forum contribution takes a critical look at 'policy', 'policymaking' and 'governing' as key concepts in policy studies. I briefly peruse the historical etymology of 'policy' to unearth root meanings that, jointly, make up the 'signature' of policy in the language used by observers, practitioners and citizens. Next, I discuss the relation between 'policy' and 'governing'. In a normative conclusion I reflect on the possibility of problematisat…
Problematizing ‘wickedness’: A critique of the wicked problems concept, from philosophy to practice
The concept of ‘wicked problems’ is a major current in the fields of policy analysis and planning. However, the basis of the concept has been insufficiently examined. This re-examination of its conceptual basis explains the origins of the limitations and flaws in the wicked problems concept. This paper analyses and rejects the notion of ‘wicked problems’ on philosophical and practical grounds. We argue instead that the policy sciences already had…
Heuristics for practitioners of policy design: Rules-of-thumb for structuring unstructured problems
This article is an attempt to bridge the divide between academics and practitioners. Informed by both design theory and the reality of policy work, its focus is on ‘problems’. From a practitioners’ perspective, policy design is both an intellectual and political process, an inevitable oscillation between ‘puzzling’ and ‘powering’, in which ‘messy’ or unstructured problems are re-structured from problems as webs of ‘undesirable situations’ to prob…
Understanding policy persistence—The case of police drug detection dog policy in NSW, Australia
Lindblom on Limits to Policy Change: The Tragic Dilemma Between Understanding and Shaping the World
Ever tried.Ever failed.No matter.Tried again.Fail again
Tales of accountability: A Q-method study of discourses amongst Tanzanian members of parliament
The hallmark of accountability in a democracy centres on the way the elected parliament holds the executive to account. If the parliament does not perform its oversight role effectively, lower authorities would have fewer incentives to do the same vis-à-vis local executives. In this article we therefore ask whether or not different meanings of accountability can be discerned amongst Tanzanian Members of Parliament (MPs). In our Q-method research …
The Role of Theories in Policy Studies and Policy Work: Selective Affinities between Representation and Performation
In this article, we intend to take a few steps to mending the disconnect between the academic study of policy processes and the many practices of professional and not‐so‐professional policy work. We argue, first, that the “toolkit” of academically warranted approaches to the policy process used in the representative mode may be ordered in a family tree with three major branches : policy as reasoned authoritative choice, policy as association in p…
Towards the Comparative Study of Policy Work. A Rejoinder to Radin’s Views on Policy Analysis as “Advice to a Client”
Comes of Age (Radin 2000); and Policy Analysis Reaches Midlife (Radin 2013).Since Machiavelli has as many interpretations as interpreters, "beyond Machiavelli" also means very different things, compounded by the multi-interpretability of "beyond".My guess is that beyond teleology, idealism and ideology, beyond what rulers and administrators actually do, and beyond policy analysis as just "art and craft" (Wildavsky 1980) approximate Radin's intent…
Making the most of mess. Reliability and policy in today’s management challenges
Emery Roe’s most recent book, 'Making the Most of Mess', has much more to offer than the well-crafted alliteration in its title. It provides its readers with a refreshing answer to the challenges of public administration and the policy sciences as thepar excellencedisciplines, crafts and arts of dealing under time pressure with ‘messy’ problems of collective action through policy, organization and public management. I will summarize Roe’s book,wh…
Comparing the role of boundary organizations in the governance of climate change in three EU member states
Mark B. Brown, Science in Democracy. Expertise, Institutions, and Representation: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA., and London, 2009
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, produced a cautious but positive review of pre-implantation genetic screening (http://www.leopoldina. org/en/policy-advice/recommendations-and-statements/national-recommendations/ praeimplantationsdiagnostik-pid.html -accessed 21 April, 2011). Immediately, the advice was attacked as an example of politics-contaminated, instead of value-free science. But simultaneously, many seasoned science policy a…
Institutional constraints and practical problems in deliberative and participatory policy making
is currently 175 words; please reduce to no more than 100 words] Participation has become a mantra and common practice in governance.It is expected to contribute to the legitimacy, deliberative quality of design and easier implementation of policy.Yet, only preliminary efforts have been made to examine how innovative participatory and deliberative designs may be constrained in a political-institutional landscape characterised by representative de…
Pollution Through Traffic and Transport: The praxis of cultural pluralism in parliamentarian technology assessment
Rethinking the science-policy nexus: From knowledge utilization and science technology studies to types of boundary arrangements
Cultures of public policy problems
This article is an essay about the construction of a culturalist theory of problem definition in the public domain. Using grid‐group Cultural Theory and a typology of the structures of policy problems, questions are posed such as the following: Why do some policymakers prefer to define problems as overstructured and not understructured? May one predict that policymakers who adhere to different ways of life will prove to be more adept in solving s…
Guest co‐editor's introduction: Cultural theory's gift for policy analysis
Forum. Co-Evolution of Modes of Governance and Rationality: A Diagnosis and Research Agenda
This essay is a response to what struck me as two omissions in the Symposium on Rationality and Public Administration (coordinated by Petra Schreurs), Administrative Theory & Praxis, 24, 2. It attempts to outline some important shifts or ruptures in the societal and institutional contexts for the application of rationality in contemporary public administration. It also tries to link up the debate on rationality, within public administration as ac…
Christopher Hood, The Art of the State. Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management
Policy analysis, science and politics: From 'Speaking Truth to Power' to 'Making Sense Together
Journal Article Policy analysis, science and politics: from 'speaking truth to power' to 'making sense together' Get access Robert Hoppe Robert Hoppe Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Science and Public Policy, Volume 26, Issue 3, June 1999, Pages 201-210, https://doi.org/10.3152/147154399781782482 Published: 01 June 1999
Political Judgment and the Policy Cycle: The Case of Ethnicity Policy Arguments in the Netherlands
Defining and measuring poverty in the nonmetropolitan United States using the survey of income and program Participation
The value of symmetric and asymmetric indices of segregation constructed from MCD data
Implementation research and policy design: Problem tractability, policy theory, and feasibility testing
Rural America: Perspective on Policy
Policy analysis, science and politics: From 'Speaking Truth to Power' to 'Making Sense Together
Journal Article Policy analysis, science and politics: from 'speaking truth to power' to 'making sense together' Get access Robert Hoppe Robert Hoppe Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Science and Public Policy, Volume 26, Issue 3, June 1999, Pages 201-210, https://doi.org/10.3152/147154399781782482 Published: 01 June 1999
Institutional constraints and practical problems in deliberative and participatory policy making
is currently 175 words; please reduce to no more than 100 words] Participation has become a mantra and common practice in governance.It is expected to contribute to the legitimacy, deliberative quality of design and easier implementation of policy.Yet, only preliminary efforts have been made to examine how innovative participatory and deliberative designs may be constrained in a political-institutional landscape characterised by representative de…
Problematizing ‘wickedness’: A critique of the wicked problems concept, from philosophy to practice
The concept of ‘wicked problems’ is a major current in the fields of policy analysis and planning. However, the basis of the concept has been insufficiently examined. This re-examination of its conceptual basis explains the origins of the limitations and flaws in the wicked problems concept. This paper analyses and rejects the notion of ‘wicked problems’ on philosophical and practical grounds. We argue instead that the policy sciences already had…
Comparing the role of boundary organizations in the governance of climate change in three EU member states
Cultures of public policy problems
This article is an essay about the construction of a culturalist theory of problem definition in the public domain. Using grid‐group Cultural Theory and a typology of the structures of policy problems, questions are posed such as the following: Why do some policymakers prefer to define problems as overstructured and not understructured? May one predict that policymakers who adhere to different ways of life will prove to be more adept in solving s…
Implementation research and policy design: Problem tractability, policy theory, and feasibility testing
Public Policy and Rural Poverty a View From the 1980s
Heuristics for practitioners of policy design: Rules-of-thumb for structuring unstructured problems
This article is an attempt to bridge the divide between academics and practitioners. Informed by both design theory and the reality of policy work, its focus is on ‘problems’. From a practitioners’ perspective, policy design is both an intellectual and political process, an inevitable oscillation between ‘puzzling’ and ‘powering’, in which ‘messy’ or unstructured problems are re-structured from problems as webs of ‘undesirable situations’ to prob…
The Role of Theories in Policy Studies and Policy Work: Selective Affinities between Representation and Performation
In this article, we intend to take a few steps to mending the disconnect between the academic study of policy processes and the many practices of professional and not‐so‐professional policy work. We argue, first, that the “toolkit” of academically warranted approaches to the policy process used in the representative mode may be ordered in a family tree with three major branches : policy as reasoned authoritative choice, policy as association in p…
Lindblom on Limits to Policy Change: The Tragic Dilemma Between Understanding and Shaping the World
Ever tried.Ever failed.No matter.Tried again.Fail again
Policy, governing and politicality
This Forum contribution takes a critical look at 'policy', 'policymaking' and 'governing' as key concepts in policy studies. I briefly peruse the historical etymology of 'policy' to unearth root meanings that, jointly, make up the 'signature' of policy in the language used by observers, practitioners and citizens. Next, I discuss the relation between 'policy' and 'governing'. In a normative conclusion I reflect on the possibility of problematisat…
Defining and measuring poverty in the nonmetropolitan United States using the survey of income and program Participation
Problem structuring, wrong-problem problems and metagovernance as the strategic management of intractable positions: The case of the EU GM Crop Regulatory Framework controversy
Analyses of ‘wicked problems’ often lead to recommendations for collaborative governance as a metagovernance solution. The case of deadlocked European Union genetically modified crop authorization processes offers a good example. However, the stalemate is not the result of the inherent ‘wickedness’ of the problem posed by the risk of genetic modification technology applied to agricultural production of food and feed. Rather, the policy lock-in re…
Tales of accountability: A Q-method study of discourses amongst Tanzanian members of parliament
The hallmark of accountability in a democracy centres on the way the elected parliament holds the executive to account. If the parliament does not perform its oversight role effectively, lower authorities would have fewer incentives to do the same vis-à-vis local executives. In this article we therefore ask whether or not different meanings of accountability can be discerned amongst Tanzanian Members of Parliament (MPs). In our Q-method research …
Towards the Comparative Study of Policy Work. A Rejoinder to Radin’s Views on Policy Analysis as “Advice to a Client”
Comes of Age (Radin 2000); and Policy Analysis Reaches Midlife (Radin 2013).Since Machiavelli has as many interpretations as interpreters, "beyond Machiavelli" also means very different things, compounded by the multi-interpretability of "beyond".My guess is that beyond teleology, idealism and ideology, beyond what rulers and administrators actually do, and beyond policy analysis as just "art and craft" (Wildavsky 1980) approximate Radin's intent…
Guest co‐editor's introduction: Cultural theory's gift for policy analysis
Forum. Co-Evolution of Modes of Governance and Rationality: A Diagnosis and Research Agenda
This essay is a response to what struck me as two omissions in the Symposium on Rationality and Public Administration (coordinated by Petra Schreurs), Administrative Theory & Praxis, 24, 2. It attempts to outline some important shifts or ruptures in the societal and institutional contexts for the application of rationality in contemporary public administration. It also tries to link up the debate on rationality, within public administration as ac…
Geschichte der Kinderarbeit in Deutschland. 1750-1939. Vol. I: Geschichte
Rural America: Perspective on Policy
Public Policy and Rural Poverty a View From the 1980s
The value of symmetric and asymmetric indices of segregation constructed from MCD data
Implementation research and policy design: Problem tractability, policy theory, and feasibility testing
Defining and measuring poverty in the nonmetropolitan United States using the survey of income and program Participation
Political Judgment and the Policy Cycle: The Case of Ethnicity Policy Arguments in the Netherlands
Christopher Hood, The Art of the State. Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management
Policy analysis, science and politics: From 'Speaking Truth to Power' to 'Making Sense Together
Journal Article Policy analysis, science and politics: from 'speaking truth to power' to 'making sense together' Get access Robert Hoppe Robert Hoppe Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Science and Public Policy, Volume 26, Issue 3, June 1999, Pages 201-210, https://doi.org/10.3152/147154399781782482 Published: 01 June 1999
Cultures of public policy problems
This article is an essay about the construction of a culturalist theory of problem definition in the public domain. Using grid‐group Cultural Theory and a typology of the structures of policy problems, questions are posed such as the following: Why do some policymakers prefer to define problems as overstructured and not understructured? May one predict that policymakers who adhere to different ways of life will prove to be more adept in solving s…
Guest co‐editor's introduction: Cultural theory's gift for policy analysis
Forum. Co-Evolution of Modes of Governance and Rationality: A Diagnosis and Research Agenda
This essay is a response to what struck me as two omissions in the Symposium on Rationality and Public Administration (coordinated by Petra Schreurs), Administrative Theory & Praxis, 24, 2. It attempts to outline some important shifts or ruptures in the societal and institutional contexts for the application of rationality in contemporary public administration. It also tries to link up the debate on rationality, within public administration as ac…
Rethinking the science-policy nexus: From knowledge utilization and science technology studies to types of boundary arrangements
Pollution Through Traffic and Transport: The praxis of cultural pluralism in parliamentarian technology assessment
Mark B. Brown, Science in Democracy. Expertise, Institutions, and Representation: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA., and London, 2009
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, produced a cautious but positive review of pre-implantation genetic screening (http://www.leopoldina. org/en/policy-advice/recommendations-and-statements/national-recommendations/ praeimplantationsdiagnostik-pid.html -accessed 21 April, 2011). Immediately, the advice was attacked as an example of politics-contaminated, instead of value-free science. But simultaneously, many seasoned science policy a…
Institutional constraints and practical problems in deliberative and participatory policy making
is currently 175 words; please reduce to no more than 100 words] Participation has become a mantra and common practice in governance.It is expected to contribute to the legitimacy, deliberative quality of design and easier implementation of policy.Yet, only preliminary efforts have been made to examine how innovative participatory and deliberative designs may be constrained in a political-institutional landscape characterised by representative de…
Comparing the role of boundary organizations in the governance of climate change in three EU member states
Making the most of mess. Reliability and policy in today’s management challenges
Emery Roe’s most recent book, 'Making the Most of Mess', has much more to offer than the well-crafted alliteration in its title. It provides its readers with a refreshing answer to the challenges of public administration and the policy sciences as thepar excellencedisciplines, crafts and arts of dealing under time pressure with ‘messy’ problems of collective action through policy, organization and public management. I will summarize Roe’s book,wh…
The Role of Theories in Policy Studies and Policy Work: Selective Affinities between Representation and Performation
In this article, we intend to take a few steps to mending the disconnect between the academic study of policy processes and the many practices of professional and not‐so‐professional policy work. We argue, first, that the “toolkit” of academically warranted approaches to the policy process used in the representative mode may be ordered in a family tree with three major branches : policy as reasoned authoritative choice, policy as association in p…
Towards the Comparative Study of Policy Work. A Rejoinder to Radin’s Views on Policy Analysis as “Advice to a Client”
Comes of Age (Radin 2000); and Policy Analysis Reaches Midlife (Radin 2013).Since Machiavelli has as many interpretations as interpreters, "beyond Machiavelli" also means very different things, compounded by the multi-interpretability of "beyond".My guess is that beyond teleology, idealism and ideology, beyond what rulers and administrators actually do, and beyond policy analysis as just "art and craft" (Wildavsky 1980) approximate Radin's intent…
Understanding policy persistence—The case of police drug detection dog policy in NSW, Australia
Lindblom on Limits to Policy Change: The Tragic Dilemma Between Understanding and Shaping the World
Ever tried.Ever failed.No matter.Tried again.Fail again
Tales of accountability: A Q-method study of discourses amongst Tanzanian members of parliament
The hallmark of accountability in a democracy centres on the way the elected parliament holds the executive to account. If the parliament does not perform its oversight role effectively, lower authorities would have fewer incentives to do the same vis-à-vis local executives. In this article we therefore ask whether or not different meanings of accountability can be discerned amongst Tanzanian Members of Parliament (MPs). In our Q-method research …
Problematizing ‘wickedness’: A critique of the wicked problems concept, from philosophy to practice
The concept of ‘wicked problems’ is a major current in the fields of policy analysis and planning. However, the basis of the concept has been insufficiently examined. This re-examination of its conceptual basis explains the origins of the limitations and flaws in the wicked problems concept. This paper analyses and rejects the notion of ‘wicked problems’ on philosophical and practical grounds. We argue instead that the policy sciences already had…
Heuristics for practitioners of policy design: Rules-of-thumb for structuring unstructured problems
This article is an attempt to bridge the divide between academics and practitioners. Informed by both design theory and the reality of policy work, its focus is on ‘problems’. From a practitioners’ perspective, policy design is both an intellectual and political process, an inevitable oscillation between ‘puzzling’ and ‘powering’, in which ‘messy’ or unstructured problems are re-structured from problems as webs of ‘undesirable situations’ to prob…
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