Designing long-term policy: rethinking transition management |
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Authors: | Jan-Peter Voß Adrian Smith John Grin |
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Institution: | 1.Innovation in Governance Research Group, Institute of Sociology/Center for Technology and Society,Technische Universit?t Berlin (Secretariat ER 2-2),Berlin,Germany;2.SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), Freeman Centre, Falmer,University of Sussex,Brighton,UK;3.Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences,University of Amsterdam,Amsterdam,The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Long-term policy is enjoying something of a come-back in connection with sustainable development. The current revival tries
to avoid the pitfalls of an earlier generation of positivistic long-range planning and control approaches. Instead, this new
generation of policy design emphasises reflexive governance concepts. These aim at inducing and navigating complex processes
of socio-technical change by means of deliberation, probing and learning. A practical expression of this move that is attracting
growing international attention amongst researchers and practitioners is the policy of ‘Transition Management’ (TM) in the
Netherlands. This article takes stock of TM implementation experience to date and discusses the critical issues it raises
for long-term policy design. The article provides a framework and synthesis for this Special Issue, which comprises articles
that address a range of those issues in more depth. We highlight three critical issues: the politics of societal learning,
contextual embedding of policy design and dynamics of the design process itself. This leads us to propose a view on policy
design as a contested process of social innovation. Our conclusion considers implications for continued work on designing
transition management in practice as well as the reflexive capacities of democratic politics. |
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