Knowledge and Policy Implementation
New Approaches in EU Environmental Policy Making
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 22. Mai 2015
229 Seiten
978-3-8452-6339-7 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
This book offers an innovative perspective on the political science debate concerning implementation issues. It focuses explicitly on the theoretical and empirical aspects of previously unrecognized problem-solving potential of actors' knowledge relevant to decision-making on the implementation level. Central to this is the question of whether the model of political control instruments can structure the way and manner in which the implementing actors contribute their knowledge to the political process and thus contribute to a more effective achievement of policy objectives.
The book offers a theoretical discussion of this issue, an approach to the analysis of empirical case studies and two case studies from the field of "New Environmental Policy Instruments" in the European Union. Within the framework of the European Emissions Trading Scheme and the Strategic Environmental Assessment, two instruments which offer the addressee prestructured room for manoeuvre are examined.
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Inhalt
- Cover
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Related debates
- 2.1. Implementation research
- New Environmental Policy Instruments
- Different traditions of implementation research and their criticism
- Postpositivist hybrid theory
- 2.2. Knowledge within the policy process
- Figure 1: Four ideational approaches in policy analysis
- Chapter 3: Concept, methods and case selection
- 3.1. Available research approaches
- Three governing orders
- Three worlds of action
- The Advocacy Coalitions Framework
- Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) Framework
- Figure 2: A Framework for Institutional Analysis
- Table 1: Configuration of working rules
- The "Two-Filter-Model" of action and reflexive knowledge
- Actor-centred institutionalism
- Multiple Streams Model
- Levels of discourse
- 3.2. A conceptual framework for postpositivist implementation research
- Figure 4: Filtering mechanisms
- 3.3. Research methods
- Process tracing
- Analysis of documents
- Interviews
- Participant observation
- Discourse analysis
- 3.4. Policy context and case selection
- The specifics of EU environmental policy-making
- Instrument presentation and case selection
- Chapter 4: Case study on emissions trading
- 4.1. Collective choices in first order governing - Introducing a legal system for emissions trading
- Introducing emissions trading - The problem stream
- Introducing emissions trading - The policy stream
- A "window of opportunity" - The introduction of emissions trading through the Kyoto Protocol
- The legal and institutional setting for emissions trading in Germany
- 4.2. Operational choices - A case study on the implementation of emissions trading
- 4.2.1. Case history and relevant actions
- Step 1 - An operational choice initiating the case
- Step 2 - Politicization of the case and development of protest strategies
- Step 3 - Responses to the protest
- Further development of the case
- 4.2.2 Filtering processes and knowledge contexts
- The first filtering process
- The second filtering process: Explaining relevant actions
- Table 2: Relevant Actions in the Case Study on Emissions Trading
- Step 1: Case Initiation
- Step 2: Politicization
- Step 3: Responses
- The knowledge context for Step 1
- Figure 5: Knowledge context for step 1 (emissions trading)
- Profitability
- Consequences for the region
- Knowledge context for step 2
- Figure 6: Knowledge context for step 2 (emissions trading)
- Consequences for the region
- Environmental impacts
- Knowledge context for step 3
- Figure 7: Knowledge context for step 3 (emissions trading)
- Legality
- Profitability
- Supply guarantee
- Case study characteristics
- Chapter 5: Case study on Strategic Environmental Assessment
- 5.1. Collective choices in first order governing - Introducing SEA
- The "Opportunity Stream"
- Policy stream
- SEA in Germany
- 5.2. Operational choices - A case study on the implementation of SEA
- 5.2.1. Case history
- 5.2.2. Filtering processes and the knowledge context
- The first filtering process
- The second filtering process: Explaining relevant actions
- Table 3: Relevant Actions in the Regional Planning Process
- Explaining the actions of step 1 (scoping):
- Explaining the actions of step 2 (Abschichtung):
- Explaining the actions of step 3 (environmental report):
- Explaining the actions of step 4 (consultation):
- Table 4: Consultation inputs referring to (elements of) SEA
- Explaining the actions of step 5 (weighing of interests):
- Explaining the actions of step 6 (justification):
- Case study characteristics
- Chapter 6: Conclusions
- Conceptual considerations
- Case study on emissions trading
- Case study on SEA
- Case study comparison
- Table 5: Policy addressees' problem/target and instrument perception
- Table 6: Indirectly affected actors' problem/target and instrument perception
- References
