Procedural Policy Tools and the Temporal Dimensions of Policy Design

Procedural Policy Tools and the Temporal Dimensions of Policy Design

In recent years work on policy design and instrument choice has advanced towards a better understanding of the nature of policy mixes, their dimensions, and the trade-offs between choices of tools, as well as the identification of basic design criteria such as coherence, consistency and congruence a...

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Autor principal: Howlett, Michael
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Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: International Review of Public Policy 2019
Matèries:
policy tools
robustness
resilience
policy sequencing
procedural instruments
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:irpp_310 https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.310 urn:doi:10.4000/irpp.310 en https://journals.openedition.org/irpp/310 2019-06-18T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/h5fr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Procedural Policy Tools and the Temporal Dimensions of Policy Design International Review of Public Policy International Public Policy Association info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2706-6274 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2679-3873 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/irpp Howlett, Michael policy tools robustness resilience policy sequencing procedural instruments In recent years work on policy design and instrument choice has advanced towards a better understanding of the nature of policy mixes, their dimensions, and the trade-offs between choices of tools, as well as the identification of basic design criteria such as coherence, consistency and congruence among policy elements. However, most of this work has ignored the temporal dimension of mixes or has studied this only as an important contextual variable affecting instrument choices, for example, highlighting the manner in which tools and mixes often evolve in unexpected or unintended ways as they age. This ignores the important issue of the intentional sequencing of tools as part of a mix design, either in terms of controlling spillovers which emerge as implementation proceeds, ratcheting up (or down) specific tool effects like stringency of implementation and public consultation as time passes. This article reviews existing work on the unintentional sequencing of policy activity as well as the lessons which can be derived from the few works existing on the subject of intentional sequencing. In so doing, it helps define a research agenda on the subject with the expectation that this research can improve the resilience and robustness of policies over time.
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topic policy tools
robustness
resilience
policy sequencing
procedural instruments
spellingShingle policy tools
robustness
resilience
policy sequencing
procedural instruments
Howlett, Michael
Procedural Policy Tools and the Temporal Dimensions of Policy Design
description In recent years work on policy design and instrument choice has advanced towards a better understanding of the nature of policy mixes, their dimensions, and the trade-offs between choices of tools, as well as the identification of basic design criteria such as coherence, consistency and congruence among policy elements. However, most of this work has ignored the temporal dimension of mixes or has studied this only as an important contextual variable affecting instrument choices, for example, highlighting the manner in which tools and mixes often evolve in unexpected or unintended ways as they age. This ignores the important issue of the intentional sequencing of tools as part of a mix design, either in terms of controlling spillovers which emerge as implementation proceeds, ratcheting up (or down) specific tool effects like stringency of implementation and public consultation as time passes. This article reviews existing work on the unintentional sequencing of policy activity as well as the lessons which can be derived from the few works existing on the subject of intentional sequencing. In so doing, it helps define a research agenda on the subject with the expectation that this research can improve the resilience and robustness of policies over time.
author Howlett, Michael
author_facet Howlett, Michael
author_sort Howlett, Michael
title Procedural Policy Tools and the Temporal Dimensions of Policy Design
title_short Procedural Policy Tools and the Temporal Dimensions of Policy Design
title_full Procedural Policy Tools and the Temporal Dimensions of Policy Design
title_fullStr Procedural Policy Tools and the Temporal Dimensions of Policy Design
title_full_unstemmed Procedural Policy Tools and the Temporal Dimensions of Policy Design
title_sort procedural policy tools and the temporal dimensions of policy design
publisher International Review of Public Policy
publishDate 2019
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