Rethinking the procedural in policy instrument ‘Compounds’: a renewable energy policy perspective

Contemporary research in the policy sciences places effectiveness as the central goal of policy design. This emphasis permeates both micro-level design considerations for specific policy calibrations, as well as more meso-level policy tool and tool mixes. Effective instrument design, therefore, augm...

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Main Author: Ishani Mukherjee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2021-07-01
Series:Policy & Society
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2021.1955488
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description Contemporary research in the policy sciences places effectiveness as the central goal of policy design. This emphasis permeates both micro-level design considerations for specific policy calibrations, as well as more meso-level policy tool and tool mixes. Effective instrument design, therefore, augments the task of looking at individual tools to considering them as tool ‘compounds’, that comprise of substantive and procedural means interacting through the process of designing tools and subsequent tool calibrations. The academic study of policy tools thus far has proffered several perspectives on how they can individually be distinguished by their different substantive components and categorized based on common governance resources that need to be mobilized to create them. However, it is eventually how well policy tools are able to coordinate the support of common procedural means and how well they are able to align their enactment plans, which determine how effectively they work together as a deliberate toolkit. In line with the growing literature on policy design and multi-component policy means, this paper magnifies policy instrument design as a complex of procedural and substantive means. To illustrate the notion of such design compounds, this paper synopsizes the state of knowledge on the formulation of three classes of energy policies as an illustration of how substantive and procedural components interact during policy instrument design.
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spelling doaj.art-62df9a2128a2406d8271a751ddcf004d2022-12-22T02:46:33ZengOxford University PressPolicy & Society1449-40351839-33732021-07-0140331233210.1080/14494035.2021.19554881955488Rethinking the procedural in policy instrument ‘Compounds’: a renewable energy policy perspectiveIshani Mukherjee0Singapore Management UniversityContemporary research in the policy sciences places effectiveness as the central goal of policy design. This emphasis permeates both micro-level design considerations for specific policy calibrations, as well as more meso-level policy tool and tool mixes. Effective instrument design, therefore, augments the task of looking at individual tools to considering them as tool ‘compounds’, that comprise of substantive and procedural means interacting through the process of designing tools and subsequent tool calibrations. The academic study of policy tools thus far has proffered several perspectives on how they can individually be distinguished by their different substantive components and categorized based on common governance resources that need to be mobilized to create them. However, it is eventually how well policy tools are able to coordinate the support of common procedural means and how well they are able to align their enactment plans, which determine how effectively they work together as a deliberate toolkit. In line with the growing literature on policy design and multi-component policy means, this paper magnifies policy instrument design as a complex of procedural and substantive means. To illustrate the notion of such design compounds, this paper synopsizes the state of knowledge on the formulation of three classes of energy policies as an illustration of how substantive and procedural components interact during policy instrument design.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2021.1955488policy instrumentsprocedural toolspolicy toolspolicy designrenewable energy
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Rethinking the procedural in policy instrument ‘Compounds’: a renewable energy policy perspective
Policy & Society
policy instruments
procedural tools
policy tools
policy design
renewable energy
title Rethinking the procedural in policy instrument ‘Compounds’: a renewable energy policy perspective
title_full Rethinking the procedural in policy instrument ‘Compounds’: a renewable energy policy perspective
title_fullStr Rethinking the procedural in policy instrument ‘Compounds’: a renewable energy policy perspective
title_full_unstemmed Rethinking the procedural in policy instrument ‘Compounds’: a renewable energy policy perspective
title_short Rethinking the procedural in policy instrument ‘Compounds’: a renewable energy policy perspective
title_sort rethinking the procedural in policy instrument compounds a renewable energy policy perspective
topic policy instruments
procedural tools
policy tools
policy design
renewable energy
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