Summary Reading notes Governance Theories

Reading Notes Governance Theories

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Chamberlin (1965) The method of multiple working hypotheses............................................................3
Institutionalism............................................................................................................................................5
Hall & Taylor (1996) Political science and the three new institutionalisms............................................5
Advocacy Coalition Framework...................................................................................................................8
Sabatier Chapter 4...................................................................................................................................8
Social Construction and Policy Design.......................................................................................................12
Schneider et al.......................................................................................................................................12
Punctuated Equilibrium Framework..........................................................................................................16
Sabatier Chapter 2.................................................................................................................................16
Transition theory.......................................................................................................................................20
Geels (2002) Technological transitions as evolutionary reconfiguration processes...............................20
Wieczorek & Hekkert (2012) Systemic instruments for systemic innovation problems........................22
Markard et al. (2012) Sustainability transitions: an emerging field of research and its prospects........24
Multiple Streams Framework....................................................................................................................26
Sabatier Chapter 1.................................................................................................................................26
Network Theory.........................................................................................................................................29
Bodin, Crona & Ernstson (2006) Social networks in natural resource management: what is there to
learn from a structural perspective?......................................................................................................29
Janssen et al. (2006) Toward a network perspective of the study of resilience in social-ecological
systems..................................................................................................................................................30
Bodin & Crona (2009) The role of social networks in natural resource governance: what relational
patterns make a difference?..................................................................................................................32
Political Ecology and Social Justice............................................................................................................36
Paulson et al. (2003) Locating the political in political ecology: an introduction...................................36
Ikeme (2003) Equity, environmental justice and sustainability: incomplete approaches in climate
change politics.......................................................................................................................................37
McDermott et al. (2012) Examining equity: A multidimensional framework for assessing equity in
payments for ecosystem services..........................................................................................................40
Social Ecological Systems Theory...............................................................................................................43
Gallardo et al. (?) We adapt … but is it good or bad? Locating the political ecology and social-ecological
systems debate in reindeer herding in the Swedish Sub-Arctic.............................................................43
Folke et al. (2005). Adaptive governance of social-ecological systems..................................................44

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,Holling (1987). Simplifying the complex: The paradigms of ecological function and structure.............49
Ostrom (2007) A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas.......................................................50




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,Chamberlin (1965) The method of multiple working hypotheses
Two kinds of study

 imitation of processes of earlier thinkers
 creative study to acquire new knowledge

Methods

1. method of the ruling theory
2. the method of the working hypothesis
3. the method of multiple working hypotheses

Premature theories

 danger of making hypotheses based on previous knowledge without investigating thoroughly
 lack of thoroughness, impartiality, completeness, all-sidedness, investigation
 danger of path dependency in theory, 'love makes the scientist blind for the flaws in his/her own
theory'
 a premature explanation passes into a tentative theory, then into an adopted theory and then
into a ruling theory

Attempts at reform

 repressive: theorizing should be constrained and only focus on simple determination of facts
o weakness: narrowness and restrictiveness
 method of the working hypothesis: used as a means of determining facts
o the facts are sought for the purpose of ultimate induction and demonstration
o hypothesis is a means for the development of facts, their relations, arrangement and
preservation of material for the final induction
o Weakness: danger of path dependency of the hypothesis
 method of multiple working hypotheses: bring into view every rational explanation of a new
phenomenon and to develop every tenable hypothesis respecting their cause and history
o Danger that springs from affections is counteracted
o Accounts for complex problems
o Promotes thoroughness
o Fertility in processes --> if the subject is looked at from all sides, the outcomes of means
and methods is full and rich
o Assumes that the acts of people are diverse in their nature
o Less confidence in the completeness of knowledge due to being able to detect
imperfections in knowledge --> less disposition to reach conclusions based on imperfect
grounds --> less misunderstandings, misjudgments, and misrepresentations
o Weakness: complexity makes it harder to work quickly, hard to put multiple lines of
thinking into language --> difficult language

General lack of reflection on methods in academia

 Flexibility, selection and adaptation to different methods by teachers and students is needed


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,  If our vision is narrowed by a preconceived theory as to what will happen, we are almost certain
to misinterpret the facts and misjudge the issue

Limitations of the method

 Sometimes a consistent poorer line of action yields better results than a vacillation between
better policies
 Method presumes a mind sensitive to all evidence, but this may hamper effective and timely
decision making in practical affairs




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