Understanding governmental activism

Verhoeven, Imrat; Duyvendak, Jan Willem

doi:10.1080/14742837.2017.1338942

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“…Likewise, scholarship on the Social Economy (Defourny and Nyssens 2008), on grassroots innovation (Seyfang and Smith 2007;Longhurst 2015) and on social entrepreneurship (Dey and Teasdale 2016) has asserted the specific innovative agency of political movements and disadvantaged groups, civil society, and idealistic entrepreneurs. Also relevant are the accounts of public innovation (Bekkers, Edelenbos, and Steijn 2011), institutional innovation (Lévesque 2013) and "governmental activism" (Verhoeven and Duyvendak 2017), which highlight the (socially) innovative agency of politicians, public officials and other policy entrepreneurs. The sustained operation of the new innovation heroes is often precarious.…”

Section: Unpacking Si Ecosystems: Three Dimensions Of Empowering Netwmentioning

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“…Avoiding the outdated but persistent imaginary of the isolated hero-innovator, our empirical research has been guided by assumptions of distributed agency and accordingly "embedded, fluid and provisional" units of analysis (Pel et al 2017). This networked understanding has been informed by the critiques of movement-centrism in social movement studies (Verhoeven and Duyvendak 2017), and by accounts of triple helix innovation (Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff 2000) and networked innovation (Akrich et al 2002). Zooming out from the agency of SI initiatives, we have been attentive to the "action fields" (Fligstein and McAdam 2011), "arenas of development" (Jørgensen 2012) and "translocal assemblages" (McFarlane 2009) in which they are embedded.…”

Section: A Relational Perspective On Si Ecosystems: Empowering Networmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As such, it enriches accounts in which SI is reduced to the agency of particular "innovation heroes". Such reductionism is not only manifest in "neoliberal" preoccupations with the social entrepreneur (Jessop et al 2013), but also transpires through celebrations of grassroots innovation "challengers" versus "incumbents" (Seyfang and Smith 2007), through "movement-centrism" in social movement studies (Verhoeven and Duyvendak 2017), and through accounts that confine SI to the Third sector "silo" (Howaldt, Kaletka, and Schröder 2017a).…”

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Social innovation is on the rise as a mode of governance through which to address societal challenges. Seeking to empower SI initiatives, researchers and policy makers are concerned with the development of supportive "ecosystems". This concept usefully calls attention to the distributed nature of SI agency, but many questions remain on the kinds of network constellations involved. This contribution unpacks the "SI ecosystems" concept, specifying how the empowerment afforded through SI networks rests on (1) local embedding, (2) transnational connectivity and (3) discursive resonance. Charting the variety of network constellations as studied in an international comparison of 20 transnational SI networks, a typology of SI ecosystems is constructed. Distinguishing five SI ecosystem ideal-types ranging from loosely integrated and locally focused co-creation hubs to globally connected and widely resonating political movements, the typology informs a differentiated approach to their understanding and development.

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“…Recent analyses identify local government contestations of global and/or national rules, as part of broader processes of activism, in policy areas other than energy. Specifically, they observe local government resistance to privatization in water in the form of re-municipalization (Hall et al, 2013;Beveridge & Naumann, 2014), whilst others have referenced resistance by local governments to national and/or EU trade policy across a number of European countries (Verhoeven & Duyvendak, 2017;Siles-Br€ ugge & Strange, 2019, forthcoming). This framework could be applied in the service of better understanding some aspects of local decision-making processes that underpin these acts of resistance.…”

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Re-scaling IPE: local government, sustainable energy and change

Kuzemko

2019

Review of International Political Economy

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Sustainable energy has emerged as a new area of policy, in part as a response to greater political acceptance of the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Local governments are understood to be potentially important actors here, but also as having been constrained in their political capacities by neoliberal political institutions and the centralised nature of energy systems. This paper combines insights from energy IPE, political geography, new institutionalism and socio-technical transitions to build a conceptual framework for analysing local sustainable energy policymaking in relation to a broad range of influencing factors. It explores the ways in which policy and material aspects of energy systems interrelate ; considers ways in which ideas, contestation and learning are fundamental to change; and understands local governments as actors in their own right rather than 'takers' of global or national rules. This approach recognises specific influences of embedded institutions and infrastructures over local policymaking, but also allows us to better comprehend the implications of political and energy re-scalings for their capacity to govern and to influence political debates at national and global levels. It concludes with a plea for IPE to take better account both of sector specifics as well as of the local scale.

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“…Mainstream parties who emerged upon these traditional cleavages are torn on these issues, while also being pushed by challenger parties who mobilize heavily around these issues (Odmalm & Bale, 2015). Notwithstanding their conflicted positions, mainstream parties, and even parties holding office (Verhoeven & Duyvendak, 2017), engage in the protest arena.…”

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Party activism: the permeability of the asylum protest arena in Austria

Hadj-Abdou

Rosenberger

2019

Social Movement Studies

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This article contributes to the growing field of studies on party–protest linkages that highlight the dynamic nature, complementarity and fuzziness of the parliamentary arena and protest arena. Taking the policy field of asylum, it investigates, first, the conditions for the permeability of the protest arena for party activism and, second, the ways in which party activism shapes and transforms the protest arena. The empirical observations refer to Austria, which has a political framework with highly politicized immigration, strong political parties and a weak protest culture. Methodologically, the paper combines a protest event analysis with two in–depth case studies on protests. The authors argue that the openness of the asylum protest arena for parties is characterized by modest protest demands, and depends on the dominant political position as well as the decision making structure regarding the protest issue. The article demonstrates that pro-asylum protests are less open to political parties than anti-asylum protests, which are in tune with the dominant political position on asylum in Austria. The findings also show that anti–asylum protests are not only more likely to attract the involvement of political parties, but also tend to become instrumentalized for party–competitive ends. Pro–asylum protests, in contrast, keep their substantive, grievance–focused orientation even when political parties step in.

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Understanding governmental activism

Cited by 46 publications

References 42 publications

Unpacking the social innovation ecosystem: an empirically grounded typology of empowering network constellations

Unpacking the social innovation ecosystem: an empirically grounded typology of empowering network constellations

Re-scaling IPE: local government, sustainable energy and change

Party activism: the permeability of the asylum protest arena in Austria

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