Learning to Depart from a Policy Path: Institutional Change and the Reform of German Labour Market Policy

2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timo Fleckenstein
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
New Institutionalism ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Labour Market Reforms ◽  
Dependence Theory ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Path Dependence Theory

While new institutionalism with its path-dependence theory has proved to be an especially powerful device for explaining the stability and inertia of public policies, its focus on the stickiness of institutions has contributed to conceptual deficits in grasping and explaining actually occurring policy change which have attracted much criticism. With reference to the critical case of German labour market reforms, policy learning is identified as a key mechanism in the paradigmatic transformation of social policy. Pursuing the argument that learning does not happen in a vacuum and is institutionally embedded, policy learning is conceptually enriched with insights from new institutionalism to develop an institutional account of learning. Such an approach to policy learning and a stronger emphasis on ideas address the stability bias in new institutionalism and its path-dependence theory by accounting for knowledge-based institutional change.

The Policy of Technological the Policy of Technological Innovation and Economic Trajectory of Portugal

2019 ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
Vonia Engel ◽  
Teresa Noronha ◽  
Cidonea Machado Deponti
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Political Strategies ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Analytical Results ◽  
Dependence Theory ◽  
Path Dependence Theory

This chapter is the result of an interuniversity exchange doctoral research project carried out in the Algarve region, Portugal, in 2017. Its objective was to discuss the economic trajectory of Portugal and its implications for those political strategies encouraging technological innovation. The empirical research used interviews and the analytical results were based on the path dependence theory. The outcomes of this study point to the dependence of the Algarve region from external investments.

scholarly journals Refugee integration policy the Norwegian way – why good ideas fail and bad ideas prevail

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Britt Djuve ◽  
Hanne Cecilie Kavli
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
Policy Ideas ◽  
Policy Field ◽  
Activation Policy

Integrating non-Western refugees into the highly specialised Scandinavian labour markets has proven difficult. This highly ideological policy field is an interesting case for the study of policy learning versus ideas as drivers for institutional change or continuity. Using the Norwegian Introductory Programme as a case study, we show that the application of core programme measures remains largely unaffected by evaluations that show that such measures tend to have very modest effects on the labour market integration of refugees. Concurrently, incremental changes in the disciplining elements of the programme have resulted in an increasingly controlling activation regime. Our interpretation is that a major driver behind the intensification of disciplinary elements has been the assumption that participants lack the motivation to integrate into the labour market. Moreover, we find that this assumption presents an obstacle to policy learning with regard to programme quality. Within activation, policy ideas seem to function simultaneously as path-reinforcing cognitive locks and as drivers for political change.

scholarly journals ANÁLISE DA GOVERNANÇA PORTUÁRIA A PARTIR DA PATH DEPENDENCE THEORY: UM ESTUDO JUNTO AO PORTO DE VALÊNCIA

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme Bergmann Borges Vieira ◽  
Roberto Birch Gonçalves ◽  
Gabriel Sperandio Milan ◽  
Francisco José Kliemann Neto
Keyword(s):  
Path Dependence ◽  
Dependence Theory ◽  
Path Dependence Theory

scholarly journals Energy transition and path dependence: the case of Costa Rica

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (61E) ◽  
pp. 281-295
Author(s):  
Daniela García Sánchez ◽  
Daniel Avendaño Leadem
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Evolutionary Economic ◽  
Dependence Theory ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Path Dependence Theory

Costa Rica’s world known renewable energy model relies heavily on large scale hydropower, a source surrounded by strong environmental and social questionings. This condition of dependence has its own reinforcing processes that hinder advancements of alternative renewable technologies. In today’s carbon-constrained world, new approaches – and new geographies – are required to ensure the availability and accessibility of sustainable energy services. Using path dependence theory developed within evolutionary economic geography and neoinstitutionalist school of thought, the present research offers an explanation of the specific path driven by the impact of historical events that favor hydropower in Costa Rica’s energy transition.   

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