TY - JOUR
T1 - Un-Dutching the Delta Approach: network management and policy translation for effective policy transfer
AU - Minkman, E.
AU - van Buuren, M. W.(Arwin)
AU - Bekkers, V. J.J.M.(Victor)
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This study identifies network management as a facilitator of effective policy transfer. We reconstruct the unconventional collaboration between Dutch private-sector experts and national governments of Vietnam and Bangladesh to develop multi-sectoral, long-term strategies (‘delta plans’). We identify the network management strategies used by the Dutch actors and use these to explain how problem perceptions of state and non-state actors were aligned in order to define solution pathways. Based on these cases, we argue that network analysis is a tool for policy transfer studies. This paper further concludes that the ‘soft’ nature of the transferred policy (in the form of principles, norms and ideas) increased its transferability, as being ambiguous and abstract left room for interpretation and translation to the local context.
AB - This study identifies network management as a facilitator of effective policy transfer. We reconstruct the unconventional collaboration between Dutch private-sector experts and national governments of Vietnam and Bangladesh to develop multi-sectoral, long-term strategies (‘delta plans’). We identify the network management strategies used by the Dutch actors and use these to explain how problem perceptions of state and non-state actors were aligned in order to define solution pathways. Based on these cases, we argue that network analysis is a tool for policy transfer studies. This paper further concludes that the ‘soft’ nature of the transferred policy (in the form of principles, norms and ideas) increased its transferability, as being ambiguous and abstract left room for interpretation and translation to the local context.
KW - policy transfer
KW - policy translation
KW - network management
KW - adaptive delta management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85175965215&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4000/irpp.2174
DO - 10.4000/irpp.2174
M3 - Article
SN - 2706-6274
VL - 3
SP - 172
EP - 193
JO - International Review of Public Policy
JF - International Review of Public Policy
IS - 2
ER -