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C-KE/I: A pragmatic framework for policy innovation

Meinard, Yves; Pluchinotta, Irene; (2022) C-KE/I: A pragmatic framework for policy innovation. EURO Journal on Decision Processes , 10 , Article 100016. 10.1016/j.ejdp.2022.100016. Green open access

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Abstract

Improving policy making is key to address numerous contemporary challenges such as the environmental crisis, climate change, global inequality, financial crises, or pandemics. Policy making is a sequence of stages structuring policy problems and choices made to address them. Among these stages, policy design is a crucial phase since it impacts the quality of the policy alternatives being considered. Policy design is, however, largely neglected in the scientific literature, and in practice it is mainly conducted informally. Design theory, and more specifically Concept-Knowledge (C-K) theory, originally aimed at assisting the process of creating marketable objects, offers promises to formalize and rationalize policy design. We critically analyze this theory, showing that, despite its strengths, as it stands it is ill-adapted to support the innovative design of policy alternatives. For that purpose, we propose a framework, C-KE/I. This framework, which is inspired by and compatible with C-K, appraises innovation based on the explicit or implicit modal statements held by a certain individual or group (“E/I” stands for Explicit vs. Implicit). Through an ex-post analysis of a case study—the search for innovative policy solutions to water management problems in the Apulia Region, Italy—we illustrate the practical applicability and usefulness of our framework.

Type: Article
Title: C-KE/I: A pragmatic framework for policy innovation
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejdp.2022.100016
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejdp.2022.100016
Language: English
Additional information: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO). This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
Keywords: Policy design; C-K theory; Policy making; Water management; Policy analytics
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149155
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