Advancing Policy Theory with Cultural Theory
An Introduction to theSpecialIssue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6331123 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brendon Swedlow (0000-0003-2117-9639, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 465-483 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/psj.12070 |
| OpenAlex | W1557516105 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
| References cited | 104 |
Cultural Theory (CT) is a constructivist theory, developed byMaryDouglas,AaronWildavsky, and others, that seeks to participate in the positivist project of discovering, explaining, and predicting regularities in human behavior.SpecialIssue contributions and this introduction suggest some ways in which this theory can help advance policy studies. One wayCTcan help is by further specifying other approaches to policy theory. Thus,HankJenkins‐Smith and his collaborators argue (and with respect to belief systems demonstrate) that the theory can be used to specify belief systems, coalitions, and causes of policy change in theAdvocacyCoalitionFramework (ACF);RobRobinson usesCTto specify further both sources of resistance to policy change and sources of dramatic policy change inPunctuatedEquilibriumTheory (PET); andChristopherWeare,PaulLichterman, andNicoleEsparza use the theory to specify sources of collaboration in policy networks as well as sources of network dissolution. Other contributors argue and/or demonstrate thatCTcan help specify the culturally pluralized conditions for successful policy deliberation, the cultural sources of policy narratives, and how cultural biases are likely to interact with policy frames. ThisSpecialIssue invites policy scholars to consider how the theory might help advance their research interests and the field
Culture theory · Deliberation · Economics · Epistemology · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Philosophy · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Policy and Administration Research
Worldview-Specific Policy Stories in Participatory Climate Adaptation Processes
Cultural Theory's Contributions to Risk Analysis
Do Culturally Varying Expert Narratives and Social Group Cues on Covid ‐19 Influence Chinese Support for Policy Change?
Cultural worldviews and support for governmental management of Covid-19
Risk Culture and Covid-19 Protective Behaviors
Varieties of development
Deliberating coral reef protection – Cultural Theory tested
Scale reliability of alternative cultural theory survey measures
Social Identity Group Cues in Judicial Ideology and Decision-Making on the U.S. Supreme Court
Environmental Risk Perception, Risk Culture, and Pro-Environmental Behavior
Beyond Liberal and Conservative
A cultural theory and model of power relations
The politics of development in Ecuador
Governancing development in the Andes
Chinese Policy Responses to Covid ‐19, Trust in Government, and Cultural Worldviews
Cultural biases, agenda setting, and the regulation of policy processes
Development as ecology
Governance transitions’ and minority nationalist parties’ pressure for welfare state change
Variation in evidence use across policy sectors
The coalitional politics of the European Union Regulation on deforestation-free products
Environmental concern among Chinese youth
The Politics of Development in Colombia
How Radical Is Too Radical? Public Perception of Taiwanese Environmental Nonprofit Organizations’ Activism
Measuring cultural identities in cultural theory survey research
Construct Validity of Cultural Theory Survey Measures
Cultural Worldviews and Political Process Preferences
How participant values influence reasons for pursuing voluntary programme membership
Reframing Governance
Introduction to the Symposium
Participatory Policymaking Across Cultural Cognitive Divides
Toward a cognitive theory of shifting coalitions and policy change
The imperative of institutional trust and individualistic culture on early Covid ‐19 policy responses
Policy entrepreneurship for transformative governance
How Alike Are Universal Values, Moral Foundations, Cultural Theory, and Cultural Cognition Theory? A Comparison of Theories, Concepts, and Measures
A cultural theory of the culture wars
The Multiple Streams Approach at the Theoretical and Empirical Crossroads
Using Cultural Theory to Specify the Policy Actors, Belief Systems, and Sources of Coalition, Conflict, Stability, and Change in Policy Advocacy Coalitions and Environmental Resource Policies
Climate policy support in the UK
Deciding How to Decide
Cultural theory, rejection of cultural bias, and party preference
The messenger matters
Integrating collaborative governance theory with the Advocacy Coalition Framework
Images of controversy
Judicial reasoning, individual cultural types, and support for Covid-19 vaccine mandates
Three Cultural Boundaries of Science, Institutions, and Policy
Using Cultural Theory to Analyze the Metagovernance of the Nuclear Renaissance in Britain, France, and the United States
Development in Latin America
Divided We Stand
Budgeting
Purity and Danger
Images of Democracy in Danish Social Housing
Theories of the Policy Process
Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World
Who fears the HPV vaccine, who doesn’t, and why? An experimental study of the mechanisms of cultural cognition.
Punctuated Equilibrium Theory
The Advocacy Coalition Framework
Cultural cognition of the risks and benefits of nanotechnology
The Narrative Policy Framework
Policy change and learning
Bounded Rationality
Deserving and Entitled
Public Policy and Political Institutions
Cultural Theory as Political Science
Theories of Risk Perception
Cultural Cognition as a Conception of the Cultural Theory of Risk
Culture and Social Theory
Explaining Political Judgement
Risk and Culture
Natural Symbols
A Review Essay
Building Better Comparative Social Theory through Alternative Conceptions of Rationality
Partnership and Privacy – Tension or Settlement? The Case of Adult Mental Health Services
The Advocacy Coalition Framework in natural resource policy studies — Recent experiences and further prospects
Cultural theory
Cultures of public policy problems
Norwegian politics of abortion
Guest co‐editor's introduction
Dealing with multilingualism in the European Union
Cultural Analysis. Politics, Public Law and Administration
Incremental change without policy learning
Toward cultural analysis in policy analysis
I disagree, therefore I am
Managing Networks of Twenty-First Century Organisations - By Perri 6, Nick Goodwin, Edward Peck and Tim Freeman
Reason for Hope? The Spotted Owl Injunctions and Policy Change
Four cultures
Requisites of Radical Reform
Protecting the Elderly
Cultural Characters and Climate Change
Explaining Decision‐making in Government
Explaining Unintended and Unexpected Consequences of Policy Decisions
Dodgy Kebabs Everywhere? Variety of Worldviews and Regulatory Change
Change in political culture
An advocacy coalition framework of policy change and the role of policy-oriented learning therein
What future for the policy sciences
Irresolvable cultural conflicts and conservation/development arguments
The Dark Side of the Left
Divided we stand
Purity and Danger
Themes and Variations
Beyond liberal and conservative
Political Culture, Patterns of American Political Development, and Distinctive Rationalities
Making Sense of Climate Change
Belief System Continuity and Change in Policy Advocacy Coalitions
Theories of the Policy Process
Policy Theory, Policy Theory Everywhere
Cultural Worldview and Preference for Childhood Vaccination Policy
Policy Narratives and Policy Processes
Cultural Theory and the Measurement of Deep Core Beliefs Within the Advocacy Coalition Framework
From There to Here
Theories of and in the Policy Process
Communicating Climate Change
Collaboration and Culture
Is There Life After Policy Streams, Advocacy Coalitions, and Punctuations
Culture and Legal Policy Punctuation in the Supreme Court's Gender Discrimination Cases
Exploring the Contributions of Cultural Theory for Improving Public Deliberation about Complex Policy Problems
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Public Perceptions of Expert Credibility on Policy Issues
Why Self-Interest Means Less Outside of a Social Context
Evaluating the Advocacy Coalition Framework
Bounded Rationality and Political Science
Can norms rescue self‐interest or macro explanation be joined to micro explanation
Cultural Contributions to Explaining Institutional Form, Political Change, and Rational Decisions
Value Preferences and Ideological Structuring of Attitudes in American Public Opinion
A Cultural Theory of Politics
Social Network Analysis in the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence
How Cultural Orientations Create Shifting National Security Coalitions on Nuclear Weapons and Terrorist Threats in the American Public
How to Test Cultural Theory
Arguing about Financial Regulation
Leading the Way to Compromise? Cultural Theory and Climate Change Opinion
Political Networks
The Role of Culture in Public Goods and Other Experiments
Political Science and Public Policy
The Cultural Orientation of Mass Political Opinion
Cultural Surprises as Sources of Sudden, Big Policy Change
Specifying the Cultural Foundations of Consensual Democratic Institutions
Theorizing and Generalizing about Risk Assessment and Regulation through Comparative Nested Analysis of Representative Cases
Indispensable Framework or Just another Ideology
Cultural Coproduction of Four States of Knowledge
Choosing Preferences by Constructing Institutions
Elementary Forms and their Dynamics
A Cultural Analysis of the Role of Abolitionists in the Coming of the Civil War
| Unique citing works | 47 |
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| Citations per year | 4,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 46 |