Incremental change without policy learning: Explaining information rejection in English mental health services

Glasby, Jon; Lester, Helen

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“…Several policy scholars have articulated the general value of the theory for policy analysis (Geva‐May, ; Hood, ; Hoppe, , ; Kahan & Braman, ; Klitgaard, ; Sotirov & Memmler, ; Swedlow, ). And CT is a well‐traveled theory, with applications across time, countries, and policy domains by a multi‐disciplinary, international, expanding set of policy scholars who have used the theory to understand, explain, and/or predict policies regarding industry and economic development (Intriligator, Wedel, & Lee, ; Wildavsky, ), financial regulation (Lodge & Wegrich, ), technology (Hoppe & Grin, ; Kahan, Braman, Slovic, Gastil, & Cohen, ), nuclear weapons and terrorism (Ripberger, Jenkins‐Smith, & Herron, ), waste management (Eberg, ), transportation (Hendriks, ; Hoppe & Grin, ; Ney, ), language (Mamadouh, ), abortion (Stenvoll, ), aging (Lockhart, ; Ney, ), mental illness (6, Bellamy, Raab, & Warren, ; 6, Glasby, & Lester, ; Kahan, Braman, Cohen, Gastil, & Slovic, ; Swedlow, ), land use (Coyle, , ; Swedlow, , , ), water and flood control (Gyawali, ; Lach, Ingram, & Rayner, ; Linnerooth‐Bayer, Vari, & Thompson, ), climate change (Jones, ; Rayner & Malone, ; Verweij, ), firearms (Kahan, Braman, & Gastil, ), and myriad other environmental, health, and safety risks (see, e.g., Jenkins‐Smith & Smith, ; Kahan, Braman, Monahan, Callahan, & Peters, ; Lodge, Wegrich, & McElroy, ; Ney, ; Peck & 6, ; Schwarz & Thompson, ; Verweij, ; Wildavsky & Dake, ; see also Swedlow & Wyckoff, ; Swedlow, Kall, Zhou, Hammitt, & Wiener, , and the CT bibliography in Wildavsky, ).…”

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Advancing Policy Theory with Cultural Theory: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Swedlow¹

2014

Policy Studies Journal

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Cultural Theory (CT) is a constructivist theory, developed by Mary Douglas, Aaron Wildavsky, and others, that seeks to participate in the positivist project of discovering, explaining, and predicting regularities in human behavior. Special Issue contributions and this introduction suggest some ways in which this theory can help advance policy studies. One way CT can help is by further specifying other approaches to policy theory. Thus, Hank Jenkins-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 the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF); Rob Robinson uses CT to specify further both sources of resistance to policy change and sources of dramatic policy change in Punctuated Equilibrium Theory (PET); and Christopher Weare, Paul Lichterman, and Nicole Esparza use the theory to specify sources of collaboration in policy networks as well as sources of network dissolution. Other contributors argue and/or demonstrate that CT can 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. This Special Issue invites policy scholars to consider how the theory might help advance their research interests and the field.

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Advancing Policy Theory with Cultural Theory: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Swedlow¹

2014

Policy Studies Journal

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“…Bevan 2010; Jones 2014), and researchers identified types of national systems or contested these classifications (e.g. Marmor 2010), and grappled with how to treat the EU (Paré and Montpetit 2009), Researchers found that the use of information was affected by institutional arrangements (Glasby and Lester 2007;Boothe and Harrison 2009). The structuring of government in terms of area of functional expertise (e.g.…”

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Knowledge, Policy and the Work of Governing

Colebatch

2015

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

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Making ‘what works’ work: The use of knowledge in UK health and social care decision-making

Williams

Glasby

2010

Policy and Society

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Decision-makers in UK health and social care are routinely asked to draw on evidence of ‘what works’ when designing services and changing practice. However, this paper argues that too much focus to date has been placed on a narrow definition of what constitutes valid ‘evidence’ (and one that privileges particular approaches and voices over others) and a simplistic conception of the decision-making function. As a result, policy and practice have too often been dominated by medical and quantitative ways of knowing the world, with such research approaches assumed to be more valid than other forms of enquiry. In contrast, the paper calls for a more inclusive notion of ‘knowledge-based practice’, which draws on different types of research, the tacit knowledge of front-line practitioners and the lived experience of people using services. This, the paper argues, will lead to a more nuanced approach to ‘the evidence’ and – ultimately – to better and more integrated decisions. Against this background, the paper outlines a suggested research agenda for those seeking to develop decision-making within these areas.

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Incremental change without policy learning: Explaining information rejection in English mental health services

Cited by 5 publications

References 62 publications

Advancing Policy Theory with Cultural Theory: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Advancing Policy Theory with Cultural Theory: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Knowledge, Policy and the Work of Governing

Making ‘what works’ work: The use of knowledge in UK health and social care decision-making

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