Institutional conditions for the up-take of governance experiments - A comparative case study
Daniel Feser,
Simon Winkler-Portmann,
Thore Sören Bischoff,
Dierk Bauknecht,
Kilian Bizer,
Martin Führ,
Dirk Arne Heyen,
Till Proeger,
Kaja von der Leyen and
Moritz Vogel
No 28/2021, ifh Working Papers from Volkswirtschaftliches Institut für Mittelstand und Handwerk an der Universität Göttingen (ifh)
Abstract:
Experiments are an important governance instrument to support niche development, promote niche-regime interaction, challenge existing regimes and manage transition pathways for sustainable development. However, policy and regulatory learning of experiments are under-explored in the transition experimentation literature. Thus, this paper examines the following research question: How is the up-take of regulatory experiments for sustainability transitions influenced by their design elements and what role do institutional dynamics play in their up-take? The paper uses comparative qualitative content analysis to examine 27 international cases of regulatory experiments. We analyze the up-take of experiment results towards the three dimensions of scalability, transferability and unintended consequences. The analysis demonstrates that the timeframe, timing, political support, regulatory context, geographical particularities, selection processes, evaluation procedures, test of different design options, heterogeneity of participants and communication processes are important influencing factors for the up-take of experiment results.
Keywords: Governance Experiments; Up-take; Scalability; Transferability; Unintended Consequences; Institutional Conditions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L51 O31 Q56 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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