Policy capacity and rise of data-based policy innovation labs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4773435 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sojeong Kim (0000-0002-1662-6855, University of Colorado Denver), Adam M Wellstead (0000-0003-0601-2793, Michigan Technological University, corresponding author), Tanya Heikkila (0000-0002-2619-4320, University of Colorado Denver) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 341-362 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Policy Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1541-132X • E-ISSN: 1541-1338 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ropr.12494 |
| OpenAlex | W4285041112 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 62 |
In scarcely a decade, a "labification" phenomenon has taken hold globally. The search for innovative policy solutions for social problems is embedded within scientific experimental-like structures often referred to as policy innovation labs (PILs). With the rapid technological changes (e.g., big data, artificial intelligence), data-based PILs have emerged. Despite the growing importance of these PILs in the policy process, very little is known about them and how they contribute to policy outcomes. This study analyzes 133 data-based PILs and examines their contribution to policy capacity. We adopt policy capacity framework to investigate how data-based PILs contribute to enhancing analytical, organization, and political policy capacity. Many data-based PILs are located in Western Europe and North America, initiated by governments, and employ multi-domain administrative data with advanced technologies. Our analysis finds that data-based PILs enhance analytical and operational policy capacity at the individual, organizational and systemic levels but do little to enhance political capacity. It is this deficit that we suggest possible strategies for data-based PILs
Big data · Business · Data mining · Economics · Environmental economics · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Computer Science · Delphi Technique in Research · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Smart Cities and Technologies
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Policy learning and policy innovation
Why policy failure is a prerequisite for innovation in the public sector
Meeting expectations? Response of policy innovation labs to sustainable development goals
Marginal Innovation Under Multiple Institutional Logics
Mapping the organizational design of policy innovation labs
Pathways to learning in data-based policy innovation labs
Assessing policy capacity and policy effectiveness
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The State of Policy Capacity Problems in Africa
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Institutional environments and innovation in digital policy
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Innovation labs in the public sector
Benefits, Adoption Barriers and Myths of Open Data and Open Government
Policy capacity and evidence-based policy in the public service
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The Myth of the Powerless State
Challenges to State Policy Capacity
Using Policy Labs as a process to bring evidence closer to public policymaking
Policy labs as arenas for boundary spanning
When the state fails, bureaucrats and civil society step up
Policy Analysts in the Bureaucracy Revisited
Policy capacity in public administration
Mobilizing Policy (In)Capacity to Fight Covid-19
Legitimation capacity
Policy capacity and Singapore’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic
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Policy capacity
The Role of Policy Labs in Policy Experiment and Knowledge Transfer
The challenges and limits of big data algorithms in technocratic governance
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(Re)Thinking think tanks in the age of policy labs
Not Just Steering but Weaving
To Bridge the Divide between Evidence and Policy
Changes in Public Service Bargains
Reconciling policy dissonance
Exploring criteria for transformative policy capacity in the context of South Africa’s biodiversity economy
Mapping design activities and methods of public sector innovation units through the policy cycle model
Rethinking the commissioning of consultants for enhancing government policy capacity
Governing methods
Governing healthcare in India
An expert‐generated tool for assessing policy capacity
Public Managers in the Policy Process
Governmentalizing central executives in post-communist Europe
A Capacity-Building Framework
Conceptualising State Capacity
When design meets power
Policy labs
Street-Level Management
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |