Un-Dutching the Delta Approach: network management and policy translation for effective policy transfer
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...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ade6fbbac8c5478f9394c81d259305ee2025-01-09T16:25:58ZengOpenEditionInternational Review of Public Policy2679-38732706-62742021-10-01317219310.4000/irpp.2174Un-Dutching the Delta Approach: network management and policy translation for effective policy transferEllen MinkmanArwin van BuurenVictor BekkersThis 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.https://journals.openedition.org/irpp/2174policy transferpolicy translationnetwork managementadaptive delta management |
| spellingShingle | Ellen Minkman Arwin van Buuren Victor Bekkers Un-Dutching the Delta Approach: network management and policy translation for effective policy transfer International Review of Public Policy policy transfer policy translation network management adaptive delta management |
| title | Un-Dutching the Delta Approach: network management and policy translation for effective policy transfer |
| title_full | Un-Dutching the Delta Approach: network management and policy translation for effective policy transfer |
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| title_short | Un-Dutching the Delta Approach: network management and policy translation for effective policy transfer |
| title_sort | un dutching the delta approach network management and policy translation for effective policy transfer |
| topic | policy transfer policy translation network management adaptive delta management |
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