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- Title
Connecting models of the individual and policy change processes: a research agenda.
- Authors
Millar, Heather; Lesch, Matthew; White, Linda A.
- Abstract
This article proposes that closer attention to models of the individual provides substantial theoretical and empirical leverage to policy studies scholars. Capturing the nuances of individual choice can assist policy researchers in adjudicating between specific theories of policy change. We provide an analytical matrix for parsing models of the individual underpinning various collective processes of policy change and demonstrate the value of our approach by applying it to the case of Canadian provincial renewable energy policy. The article demonstrates that gathering evidence regarding individual choice can support the presence or absence of processes functioning at the collective level. It concludes with a discussion of the implications of this approach for future policy research on the relative explanatory power of different causal processes, sequencing of policy change, and the identification of new mechanisms of policy change.
- Subjects
POLICY sciences; ENERGY policy; COALITIONS; BOUNDED rationality; ADVOCACY coalition framework; PUNCTUATED equilibrium (Social science)
- Publication
Policy Sciences, 2019, Vol 52, Issue 1, p97
- ISSN
0032-2687
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11077-018-9327-3