The power of institutionalized learning : the uses and pratices of commissions to generate policy change
By: MARIER, Patrik
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ArticlePublisher: Oxfordshire : Routledge, December 2009Journal of European Public Policy 16, 8, p. 1204-1223Abstract: This article analyses the conditions under which commissions succeed in influencing policy change. The paper tackles three question: what do government gain by establishing a commission? What are tools employed by commission in order to make their recommendations and ensure that their output will have political significance? And how do commissions influence policy outcomes? Five different types of influence are introduced and tested by focusing on the role of pension commissions in France, Sweden and the UK.
This article analyses the conditions under which commissions succeed in influencing policy change. The paper tackles three question: what do government gain by establishing a commission? What are tools employed by commission in order to make their recommendations and ensure that their output will have political significance? And how do commissions influence policy outcomes? Five different types of influence are introduced and tested by focusing on the role of pension commissions in France, Sweden and the UK.
commission; France; pension reform; policy learning; Sweden; United Kingdom
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