The benefits of specialized knowledge in polycentric governance.
Policy forums bring individual actors together to deliberate on specific policy issues. The literature found that actors' perceptions of forum performance depend on both their individual characteristics (goals, expertise, resources) and forum processes (trust, learning, beliefs). However, we do not...
| Publicado en: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 849 - 877 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2022
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=160719038&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 160719038 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: Nov2022 vid: 50 iid: 4 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 160719038 10.1111/psj.12464 ppf: 849 ppct: 28 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: C – @attributes: type: P size: 1.8MB tig: atl: The benefits of specialized knowledge in polycentric governance. aug: au: Vantaggiato, Francesca Pia Lubell, Mark affil: Department of Political Economy, King's College London, London, UK Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis California,, USA su: Government policy Policy sciences Environmental policy Policy discourse Forums sug: subj: Government policy Policy sciences Environmental policy Other provincial and territorial public administration Administration of Air and Water Resource and Solid Waste Management Programs Policy discourse Forums keyword: climate adaptation composition policy forums polycentric governance specialization Conocimiento Foros de políticas Gobernanza policéntrica 多中心治理 政策论坛 知识 climate adaptation composition policy forums polycentric governance specialization Conocimiento Foros de políticas Gobernanza policéntrica 多中心治理 政策论坛 知识 ab: Policy forums bring individual actors together to deliberate on specific policy issues. The literature found that actors' perceptions of forum performance depend on both their individual characteristics (goals, expertise, resources) and forum processes (trust, learning, beliefs). However, we do not know how different combinations of actors, embodying different types of knowledge or expertise, relate to forum performance. We distinguish between policy and institutional specialization. Forum participants can be policy specialists, who are experts on the policy issue, and/or institutional specialists, who are expert of the policy process in the governance system. The former excel at problem definition and facilitation; the latter enable inclusivity. We surmise that higher proportions of specialized actors positively affect the group's perceptions of forum performance in terms of both process and outcomes, particularly in high conflict forums. We test this claim using survey data on 55 policy forums working on adaptation to sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay Area, collected in summer 2018. The empirical findings lend support to our hypothesis as concerns policy specialists but not as concerns institutional specialists. Further research should devote more effort to study how actor composition affects forum performance. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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