Policy Design and Complexity through Rational and Constructivist Lenses

Abstract

This panel launches a conversation between two prominent policy frameworks: the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework drafted by Elinor Ostrom and her collaborators and the social construction framework (SCF) based on arguments about policy design by Anne Schneider and Helen Ingram. Papers utilize tools and concepts from either framework in settings, such as polycentric, multi-governance systems and vulnerable target populations, to further theory development. It will present research that may ultimately address under what conditions and to what extent the two frameworks can be competing or complementary explanations of the policy process.

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Centering Social and Political Spaces: Middle (class) Discourses and Social Policy Design	View Paper Details
An IAD Perspective on Administrative Accountability Designs	View Paper Details
The making of contested policy: Constructing the 'other' and the 'common good' through encounters between policy contenders	View Paper Details
Construction of Tobacco Users and Companies in Anti-smoking Policy Debates in the Czech Republic	View Paper Details