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Abstract
Research has repeatedly shown that individuals and organisations tend to obtain information from others whose beliefs are similar to their own, forming “echo chambers” with their network ties. Echo chambers are potentially harmful for evidence-based policymaking as they can hinder policy learning and consensus building. Policy forums could help alleviate the effects of echo chambers if organisations with different views were to participate and to use the opportunities that forums provide to learn from those outside their networks. Applying exponential random graph models on survey data of the Irish climate change policy network, we find that policy actors do indeed tend to obtain policy advice from those whose beliefs are similar to their own. We also find that actors tend not to obtain policy advice from the those that they encounter at policy forums, suggesting forums are not enabling policy learning.
Original language | English |
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Article number | PII S0143814X18000314 |
Journal | Journal of Public Policy |
Volume | 40 |
Issue number | 2 |
Pages (from-to) | 194-211 |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISSN | 0143-814X |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2020 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Fields of Science
- 1172 Environmental sciences
- 5171 Political Science
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- 1 Active
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Climate Change Policy Networks in World Society
Ylä-Anttila, T., Gronow, A., Kukkonen, A., Vesa, J., Wagner, P., Stoddart, M. C. J., Kammerer, M., Satoh, K. & Karimo, A.
01/01/2017 → …
Project: University of Helsinki Three-Year Research Project