The policy integration game? Congruence of outputs and implementation in policy integration

Bibliographic Data

ID10355174
AuthorsFrancesco Sarti (0000-0003-0008-6767, University of Lausanne, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume56
Issue1
Pages141-160
Publication date2023-01-12
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolicy Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-2687 • E-ISSN: 1573-0891
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s11077-022-09488-w
OpenAlexW4315786310
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited33

Researchers agree on the importance of policy integration in the analysis of responses to complex problems, yet they often use this concept to indicate integrated policy programmes (IPPs) as opposed to policy integration in practice (as performed by actors). Describing how IPPs are reshaped, while they are being implemented opens new research venues in the study of the policy integration process and its effects. This article theorises the ‘(in)congruent implementation' of IPPs and illustrates its theoretical contribution with the case study of the local implementation of the national ‘Security Decree' in the Italian cities of Bologna and Pesaro. The paper makes a theoretical contribution to the study of the political aspects of policy integration. In particular, it suggests that three factors—the misalignment of state and local policy frames, the incommensurability of different subsystems’ interests, and local politicians’ risk avoidance strategies—might be led to the process of reframing national integrative intentions from the bottom up

Business · Cognitive reframing · Congruence (geometry · Decree · Economic system · Economics · Policy analysis · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Process management · Public economics · Public relations · Computer Science · Policy Transfer and Learning · Political Systems and Governance · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology

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