Beyond powering and puzzling: the political dimensions of policy learning
本文指出政策学习与权力的二分法过于简化,通过分析两者互动及其对政策过程的影响,为设计学习型治理架构提供新视角。
Over the years, policy learning has emerged as a theoretical lens to provide an alternative understanding of powering-based approaches to the policy process and policy outcomes.This has been a success story, with policy learning gaining presence among theoretical frameworks on the policy process.However, the puzzling-powering dichotomy is reductive.In real-world policy processes, we find both puzzling and powering.Also, we cannot reduce the value of learning to what is not explained by power alone.This Introduction shows how puzzling and powering interact and with what consequences on policy processes, moving beyond the dichotomy.We present how the four contributions of this Special Issue explore this territory and suggest how to approach the design of governance architectures for learning.