Policy Failure and Policy Learning
Examining the Conditions of Learning after Disaster
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4792467 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristin Taylor (0000-0003-4809-4846, Wayne State University, corresponding author), Kristin O''Donovan, Kristin O'Donovan |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 537-558 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-01 |
| 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.12239 |
| OpenAlex | W2649865883 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 36 |
The policy learning literature indicates that governments can and do learn after a policy failure but not always. The purpose of this study is to examine the conditions under which policy failure leads to policy learning. It asks two questions. First, is policy failure associated with policy learning? Second, if policy is associated with policy learning, does the failure initiate different types of learning? Using the policy failure and learning literatures as an organizing framework, this paper analyzes three comparative cases of policy failure revealed by tornados in Greensburg, Kansas (2007); Joplin, Missouri (2011); and Moore, Oklahoma (2013). It finds that failure of the policy process in agenda setting is associated with instrumental policy learning. It also finds that there are two types of failure of decision making: failure to make a timely decision and failure to make any decision. The two types of decision-making failure are associated with different types of policy learning. In addition, the contextual factors underpinning the link between policy failure and learning are prior experience with the policy problem and capacity to learn
Business · Economics · Machine learning · Policy learning · Political science · Public economics · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Policy and Administration Research
Analysing the contextual factors that promote and constrain policy learning in local government
Structural Impediments to Policy Learning
Competence Development and Evaluation Dynamics in the Context of Learning
Modeling Wind-Induced Community Resilience Impacted by Broad Policy Levers
From Disaster Risk Reduction to Policy Studies
The Failure to Learn Lessons from Policy Failures in Developing Countries? The Case of Electricity Privatization in Ghana
Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Implementation
Policy learning in the face of ambiguity
Learning from Crisis
Public Support for Disaster Risk Reduction
Environmental accidents and environmental legislation in China
Over a Decade of Scholarship on the Politics and Policy of Science and Technology
Policy learning and change during crisis
Political transition, policy learning and failures to learn
Informing Governance for Food System Resilience
Community Disaster Recovery
Muddle and Match
Member duality and policy tourism
Policy learning over the legislative process
Institutions, policy learning and isomorphism
Closer than they look at first glance
Policy Learning and Information Processing
Policy Entrepreneurs, Legislators, and Agenda Setting
Diagnosing individual barriers to collective learning
Problem Uncertainty, Institutional Insularity, and Modes of Learning in Canadian Provincial Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation
Do Disasters Lead to Learning? Financial Policy Change in Local Government
Uneven local implementation of federal policy after disaster
Evidence of policy learning in emergency declarations as communication tools in Australia
Understanding Policy Success
Mitigating disaster losses through insurance
Agendas, alternatives, and public policies
Disasters by Design
Lessons of Disaster
A Comment on Marsh and McConnell
Towards a Framework for Establishing Policy Success
Policy transfer as learning
Policy learning in the Eurozone crisis
Integrated policy approaches and policy failure
Why didn't they See it Coming? Warning Signs, Acceptable Risks and the Global Financial Crisis
Ambiguity and Choice in Public Policy
The lessons of failure
Focusing Events, Mobilization, and Agenda Setting
Policy Learning and Failure
A public policy approach to understanding the nature and causes of foreign policy failure
Revisiting the study of policy failures
Policy Failure and Policy Change
Understanding the persistence of policy failures
Implementation failures revisited
What is policy failure? A primer to help navigate the maze
What is Lesson-Drawing
Systematising Policy Learning
Learning and Policy Improvement After Disaster
After Disaster
The World Changed Today
Metaphors Matter
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |