Policy paradigms, social learning, and the state: The case of economic policymaking in Britain
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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.
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Such destabilizing shocks usually also entail ideational change that can discredit old policy paradigms and pave the way for new paradigms.
“Such destabilizing shocks usually also entail ideational change that can discredit old policy paradigms and pave the way for new paradigms (Hall, 1993).”
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- Authors
- Hall, P. A.
- Corresponding author
- Hall, Peter A.
- ORCID
- Hall, Peter A.
- Venue
- Comparative Politics
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1993-04
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 275
- ISSN
- 0010-4159 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4371184
- Cited by
- 7,369
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 315 · 2025: 349 · 2024: 370 · 2023: 375 · 2022: 374 · 2021: 412 · 2020: 423 · 2019: 471 · 2018: 405 · 2017: 336 · 2016: 329 · 2015: 336 · 2014: 305 · 2013: 260 · 2012: 264
- FWCI
- 118.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Comparative Politics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policy Transfer and Learning
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Keywords
- policy paradigms, social learning, economic policy-making, state autonomy, Keynesian economics, monetarism, paradigm shift, state-society relations, electoral competition, British economic policy
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