Resilience and robustness in policy design: a critical appraisal |
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Authors: | Giliberto Capano Jun Jie Woo |
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Institution: | 1.Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences,Scuola Normale Superiore,Florence,Italy;2.Public Policy and Global Affairs Programme, School of Humanities and Social Sciences,Nanyang Technological University,Singapore,Singapore;3.Harvard Kennedy School,Cambridge,USA |
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Abstract: | Resilience and robustness are exciting concepts for policy researchers. Their broad use in other disciplines has motivated social scientists and policy researchers to adopt them in analyses. In the present paper, we review definitions of these concepts and the primary theoretical and empirical challenges presented by resilience and robustness as lenses for improving the understanding of policy process and policy design. The results reveal that the two concepts differ in their potential value for public policy analysis. Despite its diffusion and ‘charme’, resilience does not appear to be useful and may be misleading, whereas robustness exhibits great potential with respect to both analysis and design. |
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