Institutional conditions for the up-take of governance experiments - A comparative case study

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Experiments are an important governance instrument to support niche development, promote niche-regime interaction, challenge existing regimes and manage transition pathways for sustainable development. However, policy and regulatory learning of experiments are under-explored in the transition experimentation literature. Thus, this paper examines the following research question: How is the up-take of regulatory experiments for sustainability transitions influenced by their design elements and what role do institutional dynamics play in their up-take? The paper uses comparative qualitative content analysis to examine 27 international cases of regulatory experiments. We analyze the up-take of experiment results towards the three dimensions of scalability, transferability and unintended consequences. The analysis demonstrates that the timeframe, timing, political support, regulatory context, geographical particularities, selection processes, evaluation procedures, test of different design options, heterogeneity of participants and communication processes are important influencing factors for the up-take of experiment results.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ifh Working Paper ; No. 28/2021

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Regulation ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth ; Environmental Economics: Government Policy
• Subject: Governance Experiments ; Up-take ; Scalability ; Transferability ; Unintended Consequences ; Institutional Conditions

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Feser, Daniel ; Winkler-Portmann, Simon ; Bischoff, Thore Sören ; Bauknecht, Dierk ; Bizer, Kilian ; Führ, Martin ; Heyen, Dirk Arne ; Proeger, Till ; von der Leyen, Kaja ; Vogel, Moritz
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Volkswirtschaftliches Institut für Mittelstand und Handwerk an der Universität Göttingen (ifh)
• (where): Göttingen
• (when): 2021

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/229175
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:47 AM CET