Institutional Misfits
Law and Habits in Finnish Wolf Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4240042 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juha Hiedanpää (0000-0002-4926-5742, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conservation Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1195-5449 • E-ISSN: 1708-3087 |
| Publisher | Resilience Alliance (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.5751/es-05302-180124 |
| OpenAlex | W2315922454 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 16 |
Finland has struggled with formulating and implementing policies regarding the national grey wolf (Canis lupus) population. It seems that after major institutional adjustments undertaken to improve wolf protection, the wolf population has, in fact, decreased. This calls for an explanation. My approach to the question of institutional fit builds upon classical institutional economics and pragmatism. I will apply Charles S. Peirce's conception of habits and his theory of categories and the idea of normative sciences. The case study from southwestern Finland shows that if the institutional designers would address the habits of feeling, mind, and action, including their own, that frame and constitute the problematic situation and potential solutions, the critical conditions of institutional fit would be more tangible and easier to identify and handle. As long as policy adjustments are reactive and compulsive and not built upon a reasonable engagement of whole epistemic community in habit-breaking and habit-taking, policies will most likely fail
Economics · Epistemic community · Epistemology · Habit · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Politics · Population · Positive economics · Pragmatism · Sociology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Institutional fit and the sustainability of social–ecological systems
Metapopulation perspective to institutional fit
Nudging Evolution
From Obstructionism to Communication
Governing Large Carnivores—Comparative Insights from Three Different Countries
Nudging the Impasse? Lessons From the Nationwide Online Wolf Management Forum in Finland
Mission impossible? Pursuing the co-existence of viable predator populations and sustainable reindeer husbandry in Finland
Economics and evolution
Institutions in Economics
Understanding the Process of Economic Change
The Evolution of Institutional Economics
Institutions and the environment
Volitional pragmatism
The Architecture of Global Environmental Governance
A sketch of Peirce’s Firstness and its significance to art
Peirce and politics
Against Mechanism
Sufficient Reason
Introduction
Fit, Interplay, and Scale
Fit in the Body
Environmental Governance as Stochastic Belief Updating
Pragmatism, Bourdieu, and collective emotions in contentious politics
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,54 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2020 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |