Thenia Vagionaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 4383733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thenia Vagionaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thenia |
| FAMILY NAME | Vagionaki |
| SIGNATURE | VAGIONAKI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7921-7138 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Empowered but Challenged: The Impact of Task Expansion on Data Protection Authorities
In the wake of digitalization, and even more since the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in 2018, data protection authorities (DPAs) across Europe have gained significant power, establishing themselves as increasingly influential politico‐administrative actors with the potential to shape regulation and governance across various policy areas. Despite their growing prominence, the evolution of their role within wid…
Blocked and “Unblocked” Learning: Structural Factors That Impede and Enable Evidence‐Informed Policymaking
This article addresses a critical issue in evidence‐informed policymaking: the challenge of translating knowledge into policy outputs amidst the complex interplay between research and politics. It discusses the concept of “blocked learning,” where individual‐level learning fails to scale up to organizational and policy levels, thus impeding evidence‐informed policymaking. The analysis identifies three primary factors that obstruct this knowledge …
Parallel learning loops in collaborative innovation: Insights from digital government
Why policy failure is a prerequisite for innovation in the public sector
Researchers and practitioners agree that collaborative innovation is crucial for problem-solving in public policy. This article contributes to our understanding of innovation in public governance, by arguing that failure in public policy is often a prerequisite for successful policy learning and innovation. Using insights from the ‘Innovator’s Dilemma’ – a theory from business studies – to develop its argument, the article emphasises how voter my…
Linking compliance and policy learning: The case of EU soft law in Greece and Spain
This article analyzes the link between compliance and policy learning. It argues that member states that tend to comply with EU regulations are also more prone to learn from EU soft law instruments, such as the Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC). To empirically demonstrate this argument, the article offers evidence from two illustrative case studies, Greece and Spain, based on insights from semi-structured interviews conducted with EU and nationa…
How to tame the beast: The diverse development of European networks regulating finance and competition
European regulatory networks are increasingly becoming crucial venues for European governance. They typically emerged as relatively loose groups of national authorities in charge of meta-regulating sectoral policies. However, in the medium term, they experienced dissimilar developmental patterns. On the one hand, some networks (such as the Committee of European Securities Regulators – CESR) have been progressively institutionalized, transformed i…
Learning heuristics, issue salience and polarization in the policy process
This article proposes a theory that links issue salience and actor polarisation to the uses of learning heuristics in the policy process. In harking back to research on public policy, behavioural economics, and crisis management, we argue that policy makers use two learning heuristics when they update their policy ideas: policy-oriented learning and power-oriented learning. The article develops theoretical expectations that link issue salience an…
Learning in Political Analysis
This article reviews how scholars use learning as an analytical concept across the political science and public policy literature. Three questions guide our discussion: (1) What do political actors in policy learn about (e.g. ideas or policy instruments)? (2) Who learns from whom and for what reason? And finally, (3) How does learning happen against the background of organizational and political realities? Our perspective offers an original contr…
Blocked Learning in Greece: The Case of Soft-Governance
Learning heuristics, issue salience and polarization in the policy process
This article proposes a theory that links issue salience and actor polarisation to the uses of learning heuristics in the policy process. In harking back to research on public policy, behavioural economics, and crisis management, we argue that policy makers use two learning heuristics when they update their policy ideas: policy-oriented learning and power-oriented learning. The article develops theoretical expectations that link issue salience an…
Learning in Political Analysis
This article reviews how scholars use learning as an analytical concept across the political science and public policy literature. Three questions guide our discussion: (1) What do political actors in policy learn about (e.g. ideas or policy instruments)? (2) Who learns from whom and for what reason? And finally, (3) How does learning happen against the background of organizational and political realities? Our perspective offers an original contr…
Why policy failure is a prerequisite for innovation in the public sector
Researchers and practitioners agree that collaborative innovation is crucial for problem-solving in public policy. This article contributes to our understanding of innovation in public governance, by arguing that failure in public policy is often a prerequisite for successful policy learning and innovation. Using insights from the ‘Innovator’s Dilemma’ – a theory from business studies – to develop its argument, the article emphasises how voter my…
Blocked Learning in Greece: The Case of Soft-Governance
Learning in Political Analysis
This article reviews how scholars use learning as an analytical concept across the political science and public policy literature. Three questions guide our discussion: (1) What do political actors in policy learn about (e.g. ideas or policy instruments)? (2) Who learns from whom and for what reason? And finally, (3) How does learning happen against the background of organizational and political realities? Our perspective offers an original contr…
Linking compliance and policy learning: The case of EU soft law in Greece and Spain
This article analyzes the link between compliance and policy learning. It argues that member states that tend to comply with EU regulations are also more prone to learn from EU soft law instruments, such as the Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC). To empirically demonstrate this argument, the article offers evidence from two illustrative case studies, Greece and Spain, based on insights from semi-structured interviews conducted with EU and nationa…
How to tame the beast: The diverse development of European networks regulating finance and competition
European regulatory networks are increasingly becoming crucial venues for European governance. They typically emerged as relatively loose groups of national authorities in charge of meta-regulating sectoral policies. However, in the medium term, they experienced dissimilar developmental patterns. On the one hand, some networks (such as the Committee of European Securities Regulators – CESR) have been progressively institutionalized, transformed i…
Learning heuristics, issue salience and polarization in the policy process
This article proposes a theory that links issue salience and actor polarisation to the uses of learning heuristics in the policy process. In harking back to research on public policy, behavioural economics, and crisis management, we argue that policy makers use two learning heuristics when they update their policy ideas: policy-oriented learning and power-oriented learning. The article develops theoretical expectations that link issue salience an…
Why policy failure is a prerequisite for innovation in the public sector
Researchers and practitioners agree that collaborative innovation is crucial for problem-solving in public policy. This article contributes to our understanding of innovation in public governance, by arguing that failure in public policy is often a prerequisite for successful policy learning and innovation. Using insights from the ‘Innovator’s Dilemma’ – a theory from business studies – to develop its argument, the article emphasises how voter my…
Empowered but Challenged: The Impact of Task Expansion on Data Protection Authorities
In the wake of digitalization, and even more since the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in 2018, data protection authorities (DPAs) across Europe have gained significant power, establishing themselves as increasingly influential politico‐administrative actors with the potential to shape regulation and governance across various policy areas. Despite their growing prominence, the evolution of their role within wid…
Blocked and “Unblocked” Learning: Structural Factors That Impede and Enable Evidence‐Informed Policymaking
This article addresses a critical issue in evidence‐informed policymaking: the challenge of translating knowledge into policy outputs amidst the complex interplay between research and politics. It discusses the concept of “blocked learning,” where individual‐level learning fails to scale up to organizational and policy levels, thus impeding evidence‐informed policymaking. The analysis identifies three primary factors that obstruct this knowledge …
Parallel learning loops in collaborative innovation: Insights from digital government
Political science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Policy learning (5 works) · Policy Transfer and Learning (5 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (5 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · Management (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)