Taking the multiple streams framework for a walk in Latin America

Sanjurjo, Diego

doi:10.1007/s11077-020-09376-1

Cited by 15 publications

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“…In this case, numerous tweets reflect that the plastic bans were considered ineffective to tackle plastic pollution and were therefore only placebo policies that appear to solve an issue but have minimal impact. Decision makers needed to acknowledge the political context where the dominance of legislatures, political parties, interest groups/ entrepreneurs and public opinion differ (Sanjurjo, 2020). The case study therefore demonstrates the importance of putting into context the plastics policies and decisions within the broader political landscape and agenda that they belong to, not least because policies can be presented as placebo within a broader political agenda.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%

‘Windows of opportunity’: exploring the relationship between social media and plastic policies during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Plastic pollution has reached a crisis point due to ineffective waste management, an over-reliance on single-use plastic items and a lack of suitable plastic alternatives. The COVID-19 Pandemic has seen a dramatic increase in the use of single-use plastics including ‘COVID waste’ in the form of items specifically intended to help stop the spread of disease. Many governments have utilised COVID-19 as a window of opportunity to reverse, postpone or remove plastic policies off agendas ostensibly in order to ‘flatten the curve’ of COVID-19 cases. In this paper, we use novel methods of social media analysis relating to three regions (USA, Mexico and Australia) to suggest that health and hygiene were not the only reasons governments utilised this window of opportunity to change plastic policies. Beyond the influence of social media on the plastics agenda, our results highlight the potential of social media as a tool to analyse public reactions to government decisions that can be influenced by industry pressure and a broader political agenda, while not necessarily following responses to consumer behaviour.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%

‘Windows of opportunity’: exploring the relationship between social media and plastic policies during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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“…Further, though the framework was initially conceived to explain agenda setting, it has subsequently been extended to investigate policy adoption (Goyal & Howlett, 2020a;Herweg et al, 2018;Howlett et al, 2015;Zahariadis, 1992). Moreover, studies have demonstrated the applicability of the framework outside the Global North, including in countries in Asia and Latin America (Goyal, 2021c;Sanjurjo, 2020;Van Den Dool, 2022), while also incorporating the role of policy entrepreneurship in fostering policy innovation (Goyal et al, 2020).…”

Section: The Multiple Streams Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Value Change, Value Conflict, and Policy Innovation: Understanding the Opposition to the Market-Based Economic Dispatch of Electricity Scheme in India Using the Multiple Streams Framework

Goyal

Iychettira

2022

Sci Eng Ethics

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As policy innovation is essential for upscaling responsible innovation, understanding its relationship to value change(s) occurring or sought in sociotechnical systems is imperative. In this study, we ask: what are the different types of values in the policy process? And, how does value change influence policy innovation? We propose a disaggregation of values and value change based on a four-stream variant of the multiple streams framework (MSF), a conceptual lens increasingly used for explaining policy innovation in sociotechnical transitions. Specifically, we posit that the values that ‘govern’ problem framing, policy design, political decision making, and technological diffusion can evolve relatively independently, potentially leading to value conflict. We apply this framework to the ongoing case of the market-based economic dispatch of electricity (MBED) policy in the Indian energy transition using content analysis. We find that the MBED scheme—with its emphasis on efficiency (problem), economic principles (policy), low-cost dispatch (technology), and centralization (politics)—attempts value change in each stream. Each instance of value change is, however, widely contested, with the ensuing value conflicts resulting in significant opposition to this policy innovation. We conclude that a disaggregation of values based on the MSF can facilitate an analysis of value change and value conflict in sociotechnical transitions and lay the foundation for systematically studying the relationships among technological change, value change, and policy change.

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“…In essence, Ackrill and Key (2011) employed MST to understand European union policymaking and asserted that it is essential to decontextualize the theory in order to adjust for the variations between American and European union legislation. The increasing number of studies employing the MST demonstrate its universality (e.g., Howlett, Mcconnell, & Perl, 2014;Jones et al, 2016;Sanjurjo, 2020).…”

Section: Theoretical Reflection: Multiple Streams Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%