Design Principles for Policy Mixes: Cohesion and Coherence in ‘New Governance Arrangements’

By Michael Howlett, J. Rayner. 2007

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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Policy Design and Non-Design: Towards a Spectrum of Policy Formulation Types (2014, background): “…in creating an internally supportive combination (Grabosky, 1994; Gunningham, Grabosky, & Sinclair, 1998; Hou & Brewer, 2010; Howlett, 2004; Howlett & Rayner, 2007; del Rio, 2010; Barnett & Shore, 2009; Blonz, Vajjhala, & Safirova, 2008; Buckman & Diesendorf, 2010; Roch, Pitts, & Navarro,…”
Implementing transition management as policy reforms: a case study of the Dutch energy sector (2009, background): “In examining this case, the article focuses on the kinds of policy goals and instruments already existing in the sector and on the kinds used in order to attempt to effect a transition to sustainability, and upon the outcomes of the reform efforts in terms of its effects upon goal coherence and tool”
The parameters of policy portfolios: verticality and horizontality in design spaces and their consequences for policy mix formulation (2015, methodology): “This is a process in which new tools and objectives have been piled on top of older ones, creating a palimpsest-like mixture of inconsistent and somewhat incoherent policy elements (Carter, 2012; Howlett and Rayner, 2007).”
The tools of climate adaptation policy: analysing instruments and instrument selection (2016, background): “More contemporary research on the subject considers combinations of multiple policy tools, seeking to develop principles for the design of optimal ‘instrument mixes’ (Howlett & Rayner, 2007).”
Resilience and robustness in policy design: a critical appraisal (2017, background): “Consequently, policy designers tend to favour incremental processes of ‘layering’ or ‘patching’ in which new instruments are added to the existing mix of instruments without the need for large-scale changes rather than a complete redesign of current policy mixes (Howlett and Rayner 2007, 2013).”
Patching vs Packaging in Policy Formulation: Assessing Policy Portfolio Design (2013, background): “And it was argued that a relatively small number of criteria could be identified to help assess the extent to which existing or future mix elements were integrated [54].”
The need for comprehensive and well targeted instrument mixes to stimulate energy transitions: The case of energy efficiency policy (2017, unknown): “…mix, depending on whether the goals are coherent (meaning that they can be simultaneously achieved without trade-offs) and whether instruments are consistent (meaning that they do not counteract each other) with what is already in place (e.g. see Howlett and Rayner 2007; Howlett and Rayner 2013).”
Introduction: Understanding integrated policy strategies and their evolution (2009, background): “…goals, for example, have failed when powerful interests are able to keep favourable policy elements in place, such as unsustainable fishing or timber cutting licences or quotas that support an industry, limiting the impact of new policy initiatives (Howlett and Rayner, 2007; Rayner et al., 2001).”