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作者:Baumgartner, Frank R.
作者单位:University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要:Peter Hall's 1993 article came at the same time as a parallel body of literature was developing, some building explicitly, some only implicitly, on similar ideas. I review some literature on policy communities, ideas, and the nature of policy change before exploring the statistical distribution of budget changes at three levels of aggregation. The similarity of these results suggests that a single process may be at work rather than different processes for first-, second-, and third-order chang...
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作者:Orenstein, Mitchell A.
作者单位:Northeastern University
摘要:From 1981 to 2004, a paradigm shift occurred in pension systems worldwide as more than 30 countries fully or partially replaced their state-administered pay-as-you-go pension systems with ones based on individual, private savings accounts. Yet in 2005, pension privatization abruptly stopped. After the 2008 crisis, several countries that had privatized their pension systems scaled back or even canceled individual accounts. Is the new pension paradigm dead? And if so, why? This article shows tha...
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作者:Kurzer, Paulette
作者单位:University of Arizona
摘要:This article looks at the long struggle to reform the Dutch disability insurance fund, which covered close to 10% of the labor force in 2002. Ideas played a strategic role in the framing and discourse of the policy reforms. A template propagated by the European Commission was used by center-left reform advocates to soften a neoliberal campaign to overhaul the disability insurance scheme. Center-left politicians used European deliberations to convince their colleagues to accept increased spendi...
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作者:Cox, Robert Henry; Beland, Daniel
作者单位:University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; University of Saskatchewan
摘要:This article introduces to policy studies the concept of valence, which we define as the emotional quality of an idea that makes it more or less attractive. We argue that valence explains why some ideas are more successful than others, sometimes gaining paradigmatic status. A policy idea is attractive when its valence matches the mood of a target population. Skilled policy entrepreneurs use ideas with high valence to frame policy issues and generate support for their policy proposals. The usef...
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作者:Berman, Sheri
作者单位:Columbia University
摘要:In the years since Peter Hall's seminal 1993 article Policy Paradigms, Social Learning and the State appeared, the ideational research agenda has expanded enormously, to the point where it now includes everyone from constructivists to rational choice theorists. This article assesses what we have learned about the role of ideas in political life since Policy Paradigms appeared, analyzes how well social scientists have taken up the challenges and questions Policy Paradigms put forward, and discu...
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作者:Elston, Thomas
作者单位:University of Nottingham