Crisis, Policy Discourse, and Major Policy Change: Exploring the Role of Subsystem Polarization in Nuclear Energy Policymaking

ABSTRACT Understanding policy process involves many distinctive approaches. The most common are institutional, groups or networks, exogenous factors, rational actors, and idea-based approach. This paper discussed the idea-based approach to explain policy process, in this case policy change. It aims to analyse how ideas could assist people to understand policy change. What role do they play and why are they considered as fundamental element? It considers that ideas are belong to every policy actor, whether it is individual or institution. In order to answer these questions, this paper adopts Kingdon’s multi streams approach to analyse academic literatures. Through this approach, the relationship between ideas and policy change can be seen clearer. Ideas only can affect in policy change if it is agreed and accepted by policy makers. Therefore the receptivity of ideas plays significant role and it emerges policy entrepreneurs. They promote ideas (through problem framing, timing, and narrative construction) and manipulate in order to ensure the receptivity of ideas. Although policy entrepreneurs play significant role, political aspects remains the most important element in the policy process. Keywords: policy change, ideas, idea-based approach, Kingdon’s multiple streams, policy entrepreneurs.

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The Role of Government Backbenchers

10.1093/oso/9780198753827.003.0005 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Meg Russell ◽

Daniel Gover

Keyword(s):

Policy Change ◽

Legislative Process ◽

Role Of Government ◽

Policy Actors ◽

Corporate Manslaughter ◽

Party Cohesion ◽

Government Legislation

This chapter explores how government backbench parliamentarians in both chambers at Westminster influence the content of government legislation and the dynamics of politics. Government backbenchers are often thought to be Westminster’s most influential policy actors, operating through the ‘intraparty mode’. As summarized here, governments have recently become less able to rely on their votes, thanks to declining party cohesion. Yet governments are rarely defeated as a result of rebellious votes. This chapter analyses government backbenchers’ amendments proposed to the 12 case study bills—some of which served purposes other than immediate policy change—and their role as ‘pivotal voters’ in resolving legislative disputes with other (particularly opposition) actors. It also emphasizes their influence on legislation before it is introduced, and the importance of ‘anticipated reactions’. For example, ministers introduced the Corporate Manslaughter Bill only reluctantly, following backbench pressure. Backbenchers hence have subtle, and often hidden, influence in the legislative process.

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Role of nuclear energy in environment, economy, and energy issues of the 21st century – Growing energy demand in Asia and role of nuclear

Progress in Nuclear Energy ◽

10.1016/j.pnucene.2007.10.024 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 50 (2-6) ◽

pp. 103-108 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Masanori Tashimo ◽

Kazuaki Matsui

Keyword(s):

21St Century ◽

Energy Demand ◽

Nuclear Energy ◽

Energy Issues

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The role of nuclear energy in establishing sustainable energy paths

Fuel and Energy Abstracts ◽

10.1016/s0140-6701(03)90609-6 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 81

Keyword(s):

Nuclear Energy ◽

Sustainable Energy

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Policy Entrepreneurship and Policy Transfer: Flood Risk Governance in Northern Sweden

Central European Journal of Public Policy ◽

10.1515/cejpp-2016-0028 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 1-12 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Evangelia Petridou ◽

Pär M. Olausson

Keyword(s):

Policy Change ◽

Flood Risk ◽

National Level ◽

Policy Transfer ◽

Risk Governance ◽

Policy Entrepreneur ◽

Policy Entrepreneurship ◽

Public And Private ◽

Political Actors

AbstractCentral to policies relating to risk governance at the regional and local levels is the interaction between the public and private sectors also referred to as networked governance. At the same time, the role of political actors in general and policy entrepreneurs in particular, in terms of policy change, has gained considerable traction in recent policy scholarship. The purpose of this study was to investigate the change in governance arrangements resulting in the formation of a coordination network in regional flood risk management-the first of its kind in Sweden. Our research is guided by the following questions: first, would the policy change (the establishment of the networks)have taken place if a policy entrepreneur were not part of the policy transfer process? Second, what is the role of policy entrepreneurship in the implementation of the policy after its nationwide adoption? Third, what other factors played a role in the variation of the results in the implemented policy that is, the enforced networks? We find the role of a policy entrepreneur key in the policy transfer from the regional to the national level. In order to investigate the resultant networks, we draw from B. Guy Peters (1998) and his conceptualization of factors which affect the politics of coordination. In addition to the presence of a policy entrepreneur, we compare: (i) pluriformity of network members;(ii) member interdependence; (iii) redundancy of structures, and (iv) degree of formality (in terms of meetings). Our findings suggest that entrepreneurs contribute to the variation in the functionality of the enforced river groups, though other factors play a significant role as well.Most importantly, perhaps, we did not identify entrepreneurs in any of the river groups which were not functional.

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Community-Based Approaches to Obesity Prevention: The Role of Environmental and Policy Change

Handbook of Obesity Prevention ◽

10.1007/978-0-387-47860-9_13 ◽

2007 ◽

pp. 263-284

Author(s):

Alice S. Ammerman ◽

Carmen D. Samuel-Hodge ◽

Janice K. Sommers ◽

May May Leung ◽

Amy E. Paxton ◽

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Keyword(s):

Policy Change ◽

Obesity Prevention ◽

Community Based

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The Role of Libraries in the Information Support of Global Environmental Problems

Bibliotekovedenie [Library and Information Science (Russia)] ◽

10.25281/0869-608x-2011-0-3-128-130 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 128-130

Author(s):

Elena F. Bychkova ◽

Anna V. Krukova

Keyword(s):

Nuclear Energy ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Public Library ◽

Environmental Problems ◽

Information Support ◽

Scientific Seminar ◽

Global Environmental Problems ◽

Global Environmental

On the scientific seminar “The Role of Libraries in the information support of global environmental problems. The problem of using nuclear energy”, which has taken place on April 28, 2011 at the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology

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