| Titre | Policy change and the persuasive potential of polysemic ideas: What explains coalition-building success? | |
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| Auteur | Tamara Tubakovic, Marina Cino Pagliarello | |
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Revue | International Review of Public Policy |
| Numéro | vol. 6, no 2, 2024 | |
| Résumé anglais |
This article examines the persuasive potential of polysemic ideas in contexts where powerful actors are needed to generate new policy decisions or non-incremental changes to existing policies. Polysemic ideas are those characterised by ambiguity, allowing for multiple interpretations, and consequently adaptability to new environments (Cino Pagliarello, 2022a). However, we argue that there is a paucity of empirical cases, especially cases pointing to variation in the contexts in which polysemic ideas are successful in facilitating coalition-building and driving policy change. We address this gap by examining two cases of polysemic ideas from the European Union: the ‘Europe of Knowledge' in education policy, which succeeded in forging a new policy consensus and shifting preferences about cooperation in education (Cino Pagliarello, 2022b), and ‘Solidarity' in asylum policy, which failed to unite Member States around the need for major changes to the EU asylum distribution system (Tubakovic, 2019). We explain this variation by drawing on the policy learning literature. We argue that, when successful, polysemic ideas persuade policymakers to reassess their beliefs and recognise new shared possibilities to achieving their interests under the new policy framework. Trust and collaborative structures are nevertheless essential to this learning process. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | https://journals.openedition.org/irpp/4846 |
