 Ideational robustness in turbulent timesMartin B Carstensen, Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing Policy and Society, 2024, vol. 43, issue 2, 111-126 Abstract: The concept of robustness has received increasing scholarly attention regarding public policy and governance, where it has enhanced our understanding of how policies and governance are adapted and innovated in response to disruptive events, challenges, and demands associated with heightened societal turbulence. Yet, we know little about the robustness of the ideas undergirding the efforts to foster robust policymaking and public governance. Based on a review of recent strands of governance theory and the ideational turn in public policy research, we define a new ideational robustness concept, which can help us to explain why some governance and policy ideas persist, while others disappear. As the contributions to this special issue demonstrate, studying ideational robustness opens new avenues for reflecting on how the robustness of ideas may affect the robustness of public policy and governance. Keywords: ideas; robustness; turbulence; policy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:polsoc:v:43:y:2024:i:2:p:111-126. Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Policy and Society is currently edited by Daniel Béland, Giliberto Capano, Michael Howlett and M. Ramesh More articles in Policy and Society from Darryl S. Jarvis and M. Ramesh Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK. |
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