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Managing ideational complexity in public policies: the case of public research funding
Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland.
Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth of the National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy.
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5281-4362
2023 (English)In: Journal of Public Policy, ISSN 0143-814X, E-ISSN 1469-7815, Vol. 43, no 1, p. 157-178Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article examines how ideational complexity, i.e. the lasting presence of alternative policy frames in a policy domain, can be managed without leading to overt conflicts. By leveraging insights from the organisational literature, we suggest that, in most cases, alternative frames are kept apart within distinct policy instruments, while hybrid instruments are established only when required by the nature of the problem. We provide illustrative examples of how these strategies are employed in the case of public grant schemes for research funding. Our findings suggest that a) composite instrument mixes are an important resource to deal with ideational complexity, and b) the design of the instruments' delivery package, and specifically its procedural and organisational dimensions, plays a central role in avoiding conflicts between policy frames. Accordingly, our analysis advances the unexplored issue of how the coexistence of alternative policy frames impacts policy implementation.

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Cambridge University Press, 2023. Vol. 43, no 1, p. 157-178
Keywords [en]
ideational complexity, instrument mixes, instruments' delivery package, organisational tools, policy frames
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Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-102314DOI: 10.1017/S0143814X22000265ISI: 000881856300001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85149028040OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-102314DiVA, id: diva2:1712539
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European Commission, 154321Available from: 2022-11-22 Created: 2022-11-22 Last updated: 2023-06-22Bibliographically approved

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