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Not Just A Tool. Taking Context Into Account In The Development Of A Mobile App For Rural Water Supply In Tanzania, Robert Hoppe, Anne Wesselink, Rob Lemmens Jun 2015

Not Just A Tool. Taking Context Into Account In The Development Of A Mobile App For Rural Water Supply In Tanzania, Robert Hoppe, Anne Wesselink, Rob Lemmens

Robert Hoppe

The 'eGovernance' hype around the potential of mobile phone and geoweb technologies for enhancing 'good governance' is soaring. In East Africa, the extensive use of mobile telephony adds to the imagined promises of ICT. We reflect on the assumptions made by the proponents of such tools, using our own action research project as an example. We took great care to consider context in the development of software for enhancing empowerment and accountability in rural water supply in Tanzania. However, we found that the rural water supply context in Tanzania is much more complex than the contexts for which successful mApps …


Critical Thinking About Political Problems, Robert Hoppe, Margarita Jeliazkova Jan 2013

Critical Thinking About Political Problems, Robert Hoppe, Margarita Jeliazkova

Robert Hoppe

No abstract provided.


The Role Of Boundary Organisations In The Social Status Of Climate Change Knowledge, Robert Hoppe, Anne Wesselink, Rose Cairns Jan 2012

The Role Of Boundary Organisations In The Social Status Of Climate Change Knowledge, Robert Hoppe, Anne Wesselink, Rose Cairns

Robert Hoppe

A plethora of institutional forms has emerged whose remit is to link climate change science to policy-making. These can be understood as boundary organisations where science and politics meet and intertwine. This article examines the role of boundary organisations in the production and social status of climate change knowledge. A multi-level conceptual model is outlined which demonstrates how context is crucial to understanding the operation and impact of boundary organisations. The framework is applied to analyse climate governance boundary arrangements at the international level and a number of national contexts. In the framing years of the global climate change issue, …


If Post-Normal Science Is The Solution, What Is The Problem?, Robert Hoppe, Anne Wesselink Jan 2011

If Post-Normal Science Is The Solution, What Is The Problem?, Robert Hoppe, Anne Wesselink

Robert Hoppe

Post-normal science (PNS) is presented by its proponents as a new way of doing science that deals with uncertainties, value diversity or antagonism, and high decision stakes and urgency, with the ultimate goal of remedying the pathologies of the global industrial system for which, according to Funtowicz and Ravetz (1993, 739) existing science forms the basis. We critically examine whether PNS can fulfil this claim in the light of empirical and theoretical work on politics and policymaking. We credit PNS as innovative frontrunner in raising important issues regarding the limited problem-solving capacity of ‘normal science’ and ‘professional consultancy’. Yet, we …


Lost In Translation? A Boundary Work Perspective On Making Climate Change Governable, Robert Hoppe Jan 2010

Lost In Translation? A Boundary Work Perspective On Making Climate Change Governable, Robert Hoppe

Robert Hoppe

No abstract provided.


From ‘Knowledge Use’ Towards ‘Boundary Work’. Sketch Of An Emerging New Agenda For Inquiry Into Science-Policy Interaction., Robert Hoppe Jan 2010

From ‘Knowledge Use’ Towards ‘Boundary Work’. Sketch Of An Emerging New Agenda For Inquiry Into Science-Policy Interaction., Robert Hoppe

Robert Hoppe

This chapter is about a new agenda for inquiry into the relationships between science and public policy. So far, most research has conceptualised this relationship in terms of knowledge utilisation and downstream impact on the policy process. However, this leads to over-instrumentalisation and serious attenuation of expert advice. Therefore, I propose a new perspective: interaction through boundary work, a concept expressing how expert advice simultaneously demarcates and coordinates science and public policy. Research shows that there are many different types of boundary work depending on various types of policy problems. This chapter concludes with a proposal for a multilevel model, …


Understanding Policy Work, Robert Hoppe Jan 2010

Understanding Policy Work, Robert Hoppe

Robert Hoppe

Draft of the first chapter of Working for Policy.


Working For Policy, Chicago University Press And Amsterdam University Press, Robert Hoppe, Hal Colebatch, Mirko Noordegraaf Jan 2010

Working For Policy, Chicago University Press And Amsterdam University Press, Robert Hoppe, Hal Colebatch, Mirko Noordegraaf

Robert Hoppe

Hal Colebatch, Rob Hoppe and Mirko Noordegraaf (eds.) Working for Policy by Amsterdam University Press and Chicago University Press There are now many people involved in ‘making policy’, but there is not a great deal written about how they do it. Most of the books on policy tend to refer obliquely, if at all, to the actual practice of policy work, and offer little guidance to policy workers or students of policy. ‘Policy work’ seems to be something that you learn on the job. This book addresses directly the nature of policy work. It blends academic and experiential knowledge of …


The Governance Of Problems. Puzzling, Powering, Participation, Robert Hoppe Dec 2009

The Governance Of Problems. Puzzling, Powering, Participation, Robert Hoppe

Robert Hoppe

No abstract provided.


R. Hoppe, Ex Ante Evaluation Of Legislation: Between Puzzling And Powering, In J. Verschuuren (Ed.), 2009, 81-104, Robert Hoppe Jan 2009

R. Hoppe, Ex Ante Evaluation Of Legislation: Between Puzzling And Powering, In J. Verschuuren (Ed.), 2009, 81-104, Robert Hoppe

Robert Hoppe

No abstract provided.


Scientific Advice And Public Policy: Expert Advisers' And Policymakers' Discourses On Boundary Work, Robert Hoppe Jan 2009

Scientific Advice And Public Policy: Expert Advisers' And Policymakers' Discourses On Boundary Work, Robert Hoppe

Robert Hoppe

No abstract provided.


Public Policy Subsystems Dealing With Ethically Contested Medical-Technological Issues, Robert Hoppe Jan 2008

Public Policy Subsystems Dealing With Ethically Contested Medical-Technological Issues, Robert Hoppe

Robert Hoppe

No abstract provided.


Applied Cultural Theory As A Tool In Policy Analysis, Robert Hoppe Jan 2007

Applied Cultural Theory As A Tool In Policy Analysis, Robert Hoppe

Robert Hoppe

No abstract provided.


How Policymakers Define Their Jobs: A Netherlands Case Study., Robert Hoppe, Margarita Jeliazkova Jan 2006

How Policymakers Define Their Jobs: A Netherlands Case Study., Robert Hoppe, Margarita Jeliazkova

Robert Hoppe

No abstract provided.


Rethinking The Puzzles Of The Science-Policy Nexus: From Knowledge Utilization And Science Technology Studies To Types Of Boundary Arrangements, Robert Hoppe Jan 2005

Rethinking The Puzzles Of The Science-Policy Nexus: From Knowledge Utilization And Science Technology Studies To Types Of Boundary Arrangements, Robert Hoppe

Robert Hoppe

No abstract provided.


Science/Policy Boundaries: A Changing Division Of Labour In Dutch Scientific Policy Advice., Robert Hoppe, Willem Halffman Jan 2005

Science/Policy Boundaries: A Changing Division Of Labour In Dutch Scientific Policy Advice., Robert Hoppe, Willem Halffman

Robert Hoppe

No abstract provided.


"'Policy Analysis, Science, And Politics: From "Speaking Truth To Power" To "Making Sense Together"', Robert Hoppe Jan 1999

"'Policy Analysis, Science, And Politics: From "Speaking Truth To Power" To "Making Sense Together"', Robert Hoppe

Robert Hoppe

No abstract provided.


Coping With Intractable Controversies: The Case For Problem Structuring In Policy Design And Analysis, Robert Hoppe, Matthijs Hisschemöller Jan 1996

Coping With Intractable Controversies: The Case For Problem Structuring In Policy Design And Analysis, Robert Hoppe, Matthijs Hisschemöller

Robert Hoppe

No abstract provided.