Unpacking policy portfolios: primary and secondary aspects of tool use in policy mixes

Bali, Azad Singh; Howlett, Michael; Ramesh, M.

doi:10.1080/17516234.2021.1907653

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“…An important categorization of policy tools relevant to procurement is provided by current studies, which make a distinction between substantive and procedural policy tools (e.g. Bali & Halpin, 2021;Bali et al, 2021aBali et al, , 2021bHannah, 2021;Stark & Yates, 2021;Howlett, 2017;Howlett, Mukherjee, & Woo, 2018). Substantive tools are 'those policy techniques or mechanisms designed to directly or indirectly affect the production, consumption and distribution of different kinds of goods and services in society' (Howlett, 2017, p. 98).…”

Section: Procurement As a Policy Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fourth, we address the relationship between procedural tools and public sector innovation by focusing on public procurement. But today's complex scenarios require governments to use multiple tools (or policy mixes [Bali, Howlett, & Ramesh, 2021a;Hannah, 2021;Howlett, 2017) or crowdsourcing/ open innovation (Hameduddin et al, 2020;Mergel & Desouza, 2013;Taeihagh, 2017). Thus, research can explore how procurement can be used in combination with other tools to improve public sector innovativeness.…”

Section: Limitations and Future Research Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Positioning public procurement as a procedural tool for innovation: an empirical study

Demircioğlu

Vivona

2021

Policy and Society

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Procurement has received scholarly attention as a valuable policy tool to reach desired outcomes in society, such as innovation. While interest has grown in analyzing the impact of the 'substantive' function of procurement (purchasing of goods and services), procurement is much more than purchases, and most public buyers' activities are 'procedural', as they are aimed at improving the many internal stages of the procurement process. This study explains how procurement can be both a substantive and procedural tool, particularly in terms of innovation. Using the 2010 Innobarometer dataset that consist of 4,063 public organizations from 29 European countries, this study answers how public procurement, as a procedural policy tool, affects the implementation of public sector innovations. We find that procurement activities are positively related to innovation within public organizations. In particular, procurement as R&D for new technologies and services has an important and meaningful effect. We discuss implications for policy tools and public sector innovation literature, and we suggest that policy makers make use of more procedural tools such as procurement to increase innovation within public organizations.

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Section: Procurement As a Policy Toolmentioning

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Section: Limitations and Future Research Directionsmentioning

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Positioning public procurement as a procedural tool for innovation: an empirical study

Demircioğlu

Vivona

2021

Policy and Society

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“…Capano & Lippi, 2017) but also how they are assembled as 'policy mixes' or 'portfolios' to attain specific policy goals (Howlett, Mukherjee, & Woo, 2015). More recently, scholars have focussed on identifying conditions that can improve the effectiveness or likely success of policy tools to anticipate and accommodate policy shocks (Bali, Howlett, & Ramesh, 2021;Bali & Ramesh, 2018;Capano & Woo, 2018;Mukherjee, Coban, & Bali, 2021).…”

Section: The Tools Approach In Contemporary Policy Sciencesmentioning

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“…This has implications as governments and government agencies have differing capabilities to deploy these resources (see e.g. Bali, Howlett and Ramesh., 2021). In discussing illustrative examples of policy tools used to manage demands, following Capano and Howlett (2019), we also briefly comment on the mechanisms that underpin these four strategies.…”

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“…This latter contribution seems particularly salient given that the policy styles concept is at its core about characterising the way government's approach problem-solving, and the relationship between government and 'societal actors' (see discussion in Howlett & Josun, 2018, p. 6). Lastly, the typology presented in this paper contributes to the efforts in this special issue to advance scholarship on procedural policy tools and the role they play in the policy process -an area that has received limited theoretical and empirical attention in contemporary design studies (Bali et al, 2021;Capano & Howlett, 2020).…”

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Agenda-setting instruments: means and strategies for the management of policy demands

Bali

Halpin

2021

Policy and Society

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Students of public policy have spent considerable effort setting out the types of policy instruments or tools available to policymakers in different stages of the policy process. A nascent strand of this important work concerns the agend-asetting phase, where scholars aim to understand the instruments -procedural and substantivethat government uses to shape the issues that it has to address. There is however limited engagement between scholarship on interest groups and this ongoing discussion around agendasetting tools. This paper aims to fill this gap by identifying different types of agenda-setting tools deployed by government which are used to shape engagement from organised interests. These tools are classified as those which governments use to routinise demands, regularise demands, generate demands, and impose issues onto the agenda. The paper refocuses attention of policy scholars onto the means and strategies that policymakers deploy to manage government agendas, a process which has clear implications for what becomes a policy problem and thereafter potentially subject to governmental action.

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The Integrated Strategy as Urban Policy Innovation Proposed by the EU: Do Cities Apply It?

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Dorado-Rubín

Guerrero-Mayo

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EU Integrated Urban Initiatives

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Policy integration is a central aspect of urban initiatives promoted by the EU since the 1990s. However, analyses about this issue usually define and measure policy integration as the diversity of policy sectors included in local plans portfolios. Nevertheless, this chapter sustains that policy integration and diversity are different concepts. Integration means interrelation among policy sectors and actors to cope with the complexity of urban problems. Diversity means the variety of policy sectors or actors included in local strategies portfolios. Therefore, diversity does not ensure integration into local strategies. Applying the CUPPA approach, both aspects are analysed by proposing specific measurement tools. The analysis shows that diversity and integration are different concepts, that the levels of policy integration are low in local strategies, and the increase of integration in their policy agenda from 1993 to 2013. Therefore, policy-learning processes exist regarding this central aspect of local strategies to promote sustainable urban development.

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Unpacking policy portfolios: primary and secondary aspects of tool use in policy mixes

Cited by 22 publications

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Positioning public procurement as a procedural tool for innovation: an empirical study

Positioning public procurement as a procedural tool for innovation: an empirical study

Agenda-setting instruments: means and strategies for the management of policy demands

The Integrated Strategy as Urban Policy Innovation Proposed by the EU: Do Cities Apply It?

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