Abstract
This article examines the model of social learning often believed to confirm the autonomy of the state from social pressures, tests it against recent cases of change in British economic policies, and offers a fuller analysis of the role of ideas in policymaking, based on the concept of policy paradigms. A conventional model of social learning is found to fit some types of changes in policy well but not the movement from Keynesian to monetarist modes of policymaking. In cases of paradigm shift, policy respond to a wider social debate bound up with electoral competition that demands a reformulation of traditional conceptions of state-society relations.
Keywords
Policy learningState (computer science)Political sciencePolitical economySocial learningSocial policyEconomic systemSociologyPublic administrationEconomicsLaw
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- 25
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- 3
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- 275-275
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- 6935
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Peter A. Hall
(1993).
Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State: The Case of Economic Policymaking in Britain.
Comparative Politics
, 25
(3)
, 275-275.
https://doi.org/10.2307/422246
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- 10.2307/422246