Pathologies of policy learning: what are they and how do they contribute to policy failure?
将政策失败分析为政策学习的退化，聚焦于知识学习这一类型，以英格兰1997年以来牛结核病管理为案例，通过精英访谈和文献分析揭示政府与知识社群关系管理中的学习问题。
We analyse policy failure as a degeneration of policy learning. Analytically, we drill down on one type – epistemic learning. This is the realm of evidenced-based policymaking (EBPM), where experts advise decision-makers on issues of technical complexity. Empirically, we present the management of bovine tuberculosis (BTB) in England since 1997 as a failure of epistemic learning. Drawing on elite interviews and documentary analysis, weaknesses in government’s management of its relationship with an epistemic community are analysed as problems of learning about different aspects of organisational capacity. We conclude discussing the value of learning theories as conceptual lenses for policy failure.