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Designing complex policy mixes: elements, processes and characteristics

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In the last decade, researchers and policy makers alike have increasingly moved away from the consideration of single policy tools and towards a greater consideration of their combination and resulting interactions. Much of this policy design work has used – albeit with varying definitions and based on different bodies of literature – the term policy mix to capture such interacting instruments, may that be in environmental policy, innovation policy, biodiversity policy, or other policy fields. However, these ‘simple’ conceptualiza-tions of policy mixes have been recently extended to a consideration of more ‘complex’ policy mixes, particularly in the context of sustainability transitions, such as the transi-tion to low-carbon energy systems. This chapter will provide an overview of this new orientation in policy mix research, including an introduction to the major building blocks – the elements, processes and characteristics – as well as dimensions of ‘complex’ policy mixes. It concludes by outlining how such an extended policy mix concept can serve as integrated framework for policy mix evaluation and design.

Funding

Centre for Innovation and Energy Demand; UK EPSRC; EP/KO11790/1

History

Publication status

  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Publisher

Routledge

Page range

34-58

Pages

474.0

Book title

Routledge Handbook of Policy Design

Place of publication

New York

ISBN

9780815369189

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  • SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Michael Howlett, Ishani Mukherjee

Legacy Posted Date

2018-10-01

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2021-01-19

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-09-30

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