Beyond powering and puzzling
The Political Dimensions of Policy Learning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6289836 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claire A Dunlop (0000-0003-2122-1075, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK), Claudio M Radaelli (0000-0001-5056-5585, European University Institute, corresponding author), Ellen Wayenberg (0000-0003-3357-1291, Ghent University), Bishoy L Zaki (0000-0001-7962-6812, Ghent University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1979-1992 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13501763.2024.2353852 |
| OpenAlex | W4398775305 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 50 |
Over the years, policy learning has emerged as a theoretical lens to provide an alternative understanding of powering-based approaches to the policy process and policy outcomes. This has been a success story, with policy learning gaining presence among theoretical frameworks on the policy process. However, the puzzling-powering dichotomy is reductive. In real-world policy processes, we find both puzzling and powering. Also, we cannot reduce the value of learning to what is not explained by power alone. This Introduction shows how puzzling and powering interact and with what consequences on policy processes, moving beyond the dichotomy. We present how the four contributions of this Special Issue explore this territory and suggest how to approach the design of governance architectures for learning
Economic system · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Immigration, business, and the state
Rethinking policy learning in urban policy mobility
Puzzling or powering? How fiscal communication reflects the politicisation of the European Central Bank
Policy learning in the face of ambiguity
Triggering policy learning via formal EU evaluation requirements in the case of Cohesion Policy
Blocked and “Unblocked” Learning
Policy Learning and Policy Analysis Within European Union Institutions
Crisis micro‐learning
The Epistemic Case for Federalism
Puzzling, powering, profiting
Policy learning and policy innovation
Political Institutions
Presidents and the Politics of Structure
Politics
Measuring Policy Learning
Powering and puzzling
Policy learning type shifts during creeping crises
Learning in the bath-tub
Policy learning and policy change
The irony of epistemic learning
Policy learning and crisis policy-making
Powering over Puzzling? Downsizing the Public Sector during the Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis
The Global Financial Crisis in Comparative Perspective
Turning Contention into Collaboration
Policy transfer as learning
Epistemological Bricolage
To Bridge the Divide between Evidence and Policy
The Many Meanings of Research Utilization
Implementation as communicative action
Who teaches and who learns? Policy learning through the C40 cities climate network
An advocacy coalition framework of policy change and the role of policy-oriented learning therein
The lessons of learning
Measuring policy learning
Policy learning in Europe
Symposium
Building a Conceptual Approach to Collective Learning
Policy learning governance
The lessons of policy learning
British Columbia’s fast ferries and Sydney’s Airport Link
Policy Learning and Failure
The traveller's guide to policy learning
Understanding political learning by scientific experts
Freezing deliberation through public expert advice
Learning mode misfits in policy learning
Does learning matter for policy outcomes? The case of integrating climate finance into the EU budget
Diagnosing individual barriers to collective learning
Introduction
Learning and Change in 20th‐Century British Economic Policy
Who Learns from What in Policy Diffusion Processes
What is Lesson-Drawing
Systematising Policy Learning
Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State
Policy Assemblages, Mobilities and Mutations
Organizational Learning
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |