Policy network creation : the case of energy efficiency
By: TOKE, Dave
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ArticlePublisher: R.W.A.Rhodes, 2000Public Administration: an international quarterly 78, 4, p. 835-854Abstract: What can broadly be described as a policy community has been established with the central purpose of co-ordinating policy implementation in the field of energy efficiency in domestic buildings. A complete understanding of the processes of policy network formation cannot be achieved in this case without a thorough analysis of the construction of cognitive structures which influence the behaviour of actors and underpin the policy network. Discourse analysis is an effective means of studying cognitive structures. An understanding of the crative and unpredictable role of agents such as ministers is also important, suggesting that the study of policy network formation can be enlightened by a historical institutionalist approach that involves a role for agency as well s structural influences. The formation of the energy efficiency policy network is studied in the context of a critique of an earlier "economic" institutionalist case study of policy network formation
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What can broadly be described as a policy community has been established with the central purpose of co-ordinating policy implementation in the field of energy efficiency in domestic buildings. A complete understanding of the processes of policy network formation cannot be achieved in this case without a thorough analysis of the construction of cognitive structures which influence the behaviour of actors and underpin the policy network. Discourse analysis is an effective means of studying cognitive structures. An understanding of the crative and unpredictable role of agents such as ministers is also important, suggesting that the study of policy network formation can be enlightened by a historical institutionalist approach that involves a role for agency as well s structural influences. The formation of the energy efficiency policy network is studied in the context of a critique of an earlier "economic" institutionalist case study of policy network formation
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