Subsystems and ill‐fitting problems: Clarifying a concept.
Policy process scholars are increasingly attentive to issues that engage multiple subsystems, though they disagree on what the unit of analysis should be. Researchers have used the term "boundary spanning," which already refers to a different class of institutions and actors, as well as variants of...
| Publicado en: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 90 - 111 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2022
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=155235490&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 155235490 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0190292X PSJ jtl: Policy Studies Journal issn: 0190292X maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Feb2022 vid: 50 iid: 1 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 155235490 10.1111/psj.12432 ppf: 90 ppct: 21 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: C – @attributes: type: P size: 885KB tig: atl: Subsystems and ill‐fitting problems: Clarifying a concept. aug: su: United States. Congress Policy sciences Political systems Internet security Congressional hearings (U.S.) Boundary spanning activity sug: subj: Policy sciences Political systems United States. Congress Wired Telecommunications Carriers Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals Legislative Bodies Internet security Congressional hearings (U.S.) Boundary spanning activity keyword: cybersecurity institutions subsystems ciberseguridad instituciones subsistemas 制度 子系统 网络安全 cybersecurity institutions subsystems ciberseguridad instituciones subsistemas 制度 子系统 网络安全 ab: Policy process scholars are increasingly attentive to issues that engage multiple subsystems, though they disagree on what the unit of analysis should be. Researchers have used the term "boundary spanning," which already refers to a different class of institutions and actors, as well as variants of the terms wicked and messy problems without incorporating their full definitions. In this article, I argue that trans‐subsystem issues are better understood as "ill‐fitting problems" because they do not neatly fit into existing institutional jurisdictions. Jurisdictions are arbitrary rather than fixed, so our understanding of which problems stretch across subsystems depends on the political system or institution under study. I illustrate the match or mismatch between issues and institutional organization using data on attention to cybersecurity issues in U.S. congressional hearings from 1966 to 2014. Cybersecurity's widely varied attributes mean that multiple committees and the subsystems they represent compete for policymaking authority, while cybersecurity also competes for attention within each component subsystem. While the opposite phenomenon, "well‐fitting problems" are possible, endogenous and exogenous problem definition dynamics will worsen the fit between most issues and their governing arrangements. The clarified concept of ill‐fitting problems can support research into policy regimes, wicked problems, and complex systems. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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