‘Policy otherwise’: towards an ethics and politics of policy translation

Clarke, John; Bainton, Dave; Lendvai, Noémi; Stubbs, Paul

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“…The policy translation perspective provides a framework for understanding how actors in such networks engage in argumentative struggles in order to shape the meaning of ideas (Johnson & Hagström, 2005), and in this process construct organizational identities (Sahlin-Andersson, 1996) drawing on local discourses and notions of legitimacy (Waldorff, 2013). Such processes, in turn, change SDG 17 as a policy idea as it travels into new localities (Clarke et al, 2015). Thus far, research on policy networks has been overly focused on network consensus, while attention to conflicts and power relations has been almost absent (Koppenjan, 2016).…”

Section: Localizing Sdg 17 Through Policy Translationmentioning

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“…From this perspective, the problems that ideas set out to solve and how they aim to solve them inevitably change when they travel to new places (Clarke et al, 2015). Distinctive branches of translation theory have been developed within actor-network theory, the knowledge-based perspective and Scandinavian institutionalism (Waeraas & Nielsen, 2016).…”

Section: Localizing Sdg 17 Through Policy Translationmentioning

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“…The translation process took place in interaction between the Danish International Development Agency (Danida) and a network of NGOs, interest organizations representing the interests of industry or civil society, research institutions, and labour unions. I advance policy translation (Clarke et al, 2015; Johnson & Hagström, 2005; Mukhtarov, 2014) as a useful theoretical lens through which to deconstruct how actors translate global policy ideas, such as SDG 17, according to local discourses and notions of (il)legitimacy. The translation perspective emphasizes how ideas become infused with contextually dependent and shaped interests as they travel into new localities.…”

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From global goal to local development policy: How partnerships as a policy idea changes through policy translation

Hustad

2022

Development Policy Review

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Motivation: Partnerships between governments, private companies, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are increasingly popular tools for policy implementation. Much research attention has been paid to the formation and design of partnerships and how they can improve their development impact but there is little on how partnerships translate into local development policies. Purpose: This article explores how partnerships as a policy idea, embedded in United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17, changes as it is translated into local development policies. It traces how such translation processes change the problems that development partnerships set out to solve, and how they aim to solve them. Methods and approach: The article presents a case study of a translation of SDG 17 that took place in interaction between the Danish International Development Agency (Danida) and a policy network. The data set consists of documents and in-depth interviews with policy network actors. Findings: From the UN's perspective, SDG 17 set out to mobilize private sector resources to achieve the SDGs. However, SDG 17 became a solution to partially global, but mostly local issues when it was translated into a Danish development policy, and consequently, a partnership programme. Some discursive alliances between policy network actors were more effective than others in advancing their discourses in the translation process, which influenced this outcome. These findings contribute to research on development partnerships by showing how partnership as a policy idea, embedded in SDG 17, changes through policy translation. Policy implications: Findings from the study highlight the importance of discursive alliances in policy networks when policy ideas are localized into development policies. Moreover, the findings imply that when studying the translation of ideas into development policies, it is important to first disentangle the local conditions under which such processes take place to fully understand how they determine the translation outcome.

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Section: Localizing Sdg 17 Through Policy Translationmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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From global goal to local development policy: How partnerships as a policy idea changes through policy translation

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2022

Development Policy Review

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“…But if we are to imagine a progressive politics of place beyond place (following Massey 2011), we perhaps risk 'rootedness' being problematically understood in rather introspective terms of localness. To articulate political alternatives attuned to spatial difference, 'translation' might remain a useful framing for researchers navigating the worlds of co-production and fast policy (Clarke et al 2015).…”

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Moving policy out of time – commentary to Refstie

Lorne¹

2022

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This paper is prompted by Hilde Refstie’s lecture on co-production and the role of academia in the search for sustainability in times of fast policymaking. My aim is to keep the conversation going by reflecting on how policy researchers negotiate all kinds of tensions and contradictions when traversing academic and policy worlds. It seems to me that those involved in making and researching fast policy are – in rather different ways – moving out of time: there is an urgent search for ‘solutions’ to the many, different crises we are now facing. Yet, the very existence of political alternatives requires holding open the possibility of interrupting the now all-too-familiar rhythms of fast policy. While calls for ‘slow scholarship’ may push back against the increasing tempo of the neoliberal academy, if we are not careful such appeals risk reproducing existing exclusions and inequalities, not least among those struggling by on temporary contracts. Confronting these dilemmas and antagonisms may help go some way towards reconfiguring research relevance in the present political moment.

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“…Al enfocarnos en la producción de discursos y significados asociados a la participación ciudadana, en el marco de la política desplegada por el municipio, es posible entender dicha política como un proceso interpretativo que está en constante desarrollo (Yanow, 1996). Desde este punto de vista, en vez de comprender la política pública como un proceso lineal y finito, se trata de un proceso complejo que está sujeto a permanente revisión y cambio (Clarke et al, 2015;Shore y Wright, 2011). En este sentido, la política pública tiene que ser comprendida en relación con el contexto sociocultural donde esta se inscribe (Wedel et al, 2003;Peck, 2011), pues son las dinámicas y lógicas relacionales presentes en el territorio las que influyen en el despliegue de una política, territorio que no es neutro ni está libre de contradicciones.…”

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Gobernanza participativa en San Luis de Macul

Tejero¹,

Fiscarelli²

2018

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En base al estudio empírico de los discursos sobre participación ciudadana presentes en los principales actores que interactúan en tres programas a nivel territorial, este artículo explora las percepciones, motivaciones y racionalidades de dichos actores respecto al ejercicio de participación en la comuna de Peñalolén. A la hora de analizar los fundamentos normativos tras la política pública participativa de Peñalolén y la relación que se establece entre funcionarios y dirigentes sociales en la etapa de implementación, se distinguen dos temas centrales: tras el discurso de corresponsabilidad existiría un imperativo ético que discrimina entre aquellos que pueden y no pueden ser parte de las dinámicas participativas establecidas por el municipio; y la presencia de lazos personalizados entre actores constituiría la base para una estructura semi-clientelar. Esto revela una concepción restringida de la gestión participativa, que excluye las manifestaciones de conflicto y disenso, aspectos fundamentales de la política democrática a escala territorial.

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‘Policy otherwise’: towards an ethics and politics of policy translation

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From global goal to local development policy: How partnerships as a policy idea changes through policy translation

From global goal to local development policy: How partnerships as a policy idea changes through policy translation

Moving policy out of time – commentary to Refstie

Gobernanza participativa en San Luis de Macul

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