The Joint-Decision Trap Revisited

Scharpf, Fritz W.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-5965.2006.00665.x

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“…In this perspective, actors want to contribute to finding a solution that successfully tackles the problem at hand, reduces conflict and is mutually beneficial to all actors concerned with the issue. They adopt a problem-solving attitude, i.e., a state of mind in which they focus on long-term goals such as the creation of value, better projects and a general increase in welfare (Scharpf 1988(Scharpf , 2006, independent of individual short-term policy success. This is emphasized by the literature on collaborative institutions and policy making (Leach et al 2002;Thomson and Perry 2006;Lubell et al 2010), adaptive (Crona and Parker 2012) or collaborative governance (Ansell and Gash 2008), collective action institutions (Lubell et al 2002), or deliberative policy making (Choi and Robertson 2014).…”

Section: Solving Policy Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy forums: Why do they exist and what are they used for?

2015

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Abstract:Policy forums are issue-based intermediary organizations where diverse types of political and societal actors repeatedly interact. Policy forums are important elements of modern governance systems as they allow actors to learn, negotiate, or build trust. They can vary in composition, size, membership logic, and other distinct features. This article lays the foundation of a theory of policy forums based on three interrelated elements: First, it discusses conditions for the formation of a forum and describes the logic of these organizations as one of an asymmetric multipartite exchange. Second, it enumerates the potential set of goals and motivations of participating actors that are fed into this exchange. Third, it proposes eight different dimensions on which policy forums differ and which affect the exchange mechanisms among actors. We claim that empirical work on policy forums should systematically take these elements into account and propose elements of a research agenda.

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Section: Solving Policy Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy forums: Why do they exist and what are they used for?

2015

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“…Because of the need to involve multiple stakeholders in the standardization process, a cooperative procedure is required, especially in states with federal structures, such as Germany (Scharpf, 2006;Veit and Parasie, 2010). Interoperability frameworks (Büttner et al, 2014;Guijarro, 2007), such as SAGA, e-GIF, and XÖV, facilitate the information exchange between governmental institutions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Standardized but flexible information exchange for networked public administrations

Folmer¹,

Matzner

Räckers

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PurposeGovernmental institutions must cooperate with other organizations across institutional boundaries to achieve high-quality service offerings. The required cooperation may lead to complex networks, including several of the thousands of public administrations in the many federal layers of a single country. This article addresses the key challenge of the proper management of the information exchange between networked actors, which is generally conducted by means of forms. Design/methodology/approachFollowing the design science research paradigm, this research develops a method that assists in the design and maintenance of forms in public administrations. FindingsDiscussions in the project's focus groups add evidence to the researchers' expectation that the method developed in this study improves the quality of forms while reducing the effort required for their design and maintenance. Research limitations/implicationsThis article includes an evaluation of the approach based on qualitative feedback from the project's stakeholders, although the implementation of the workflows and procedures is subject to future work that evaluates the approach in a variety of practical settings. Practical implicationsThe method developed in this article allows public administrations and legislative authorities to design and manage forms in a cooperative way. Software developers can assume the existence of information structures. The approach extends the BOMOS standardization framework to the operational level. Originality/valueThe main contribution of this article is the development of a novel method that will change how information exchange is managed in public administrations.

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“…The definition and adoption of selfregulatory measures may fail-even where firms share a strong interest in the prevention of public legislation-if firms' regulatory preferences are incompatible. Therefore, the join-decision traps that are considered to constrain public decision-making (Scharpf, 2006), can also be expected to undermine private decision-making. This has been largely overlooked by the governance literature.…”

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Political Contestation in the Shadow of Hierarchy

Meyer

2012

SSRN Journal

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In the public policy literature, there is a widespread belief that industry self-regulation would only take place-and lead to satisfactory results-if industry was faced with a credible threat of hierarchical government intervention. At the example of intermodal transport standardization, however, this paper demonstrates that this does not have to be the case. It may even have a counterproductive effect by exposing self-regulatory processes to political contestation.

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The Joint-Decision Trap Revisited

Cited by 269 publications

References 45 publications

Policy forums: Why do they exist and what are they used for?

Policy forums: Why do they exist and what are they used for?

Standardized but flexible information exchange for networked public administrations

Political Contestation in the Shadow of Hierarchy

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