Policy Transitions, Policy Success, and Social Groups

Abstract

For policy transitions and transformations to be successful, policy actors need to contribute to innovation, adoption, and implementation of ideas. From the perspective of the Programmatic Action Framework and Social Identities in the Policy Process, social groups are the main entities through which such changes are driven. The panel includes papers that investigate how (programmatic) groups of policy actors form around ideas, constitute identities, and effect policy changes to answer pressing challenges. It discusses different drivers of individual behaviour with a focus on social-psychological explanations and self-interest. Likewise, it is open to contributions that center on the procedural, programmatic, and political dimensions of policy success.

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