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This chapter explicates and illustrates the way in which institutional design influences the activation of cultural biases in the policy process, which in turn influences the process of policy-oriented learning. The institutional domain under consideration includes constitutional structures and formal administrative organizations as well as informal links, rules and procedures that structure policy making (cf. Hall, 1986). The various effects of administrative institutions are discussed in two clusters relating to: (1) the formative or identity-shaping effects of administrative institutions, and (2) the relational or interaction-arranging effects of administrative institutions. In accordance with this, administrative institutions are defined as all the relatively persistent patterns of behavior and organization within the administrative system that have a formative or relational impact on the communities and actors involved in the development of public policy.
“Organization is the mobilization of bias. Some issues are organized into politics while others are organized out”
(Schattschneider, 1961: 71).
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Hendriks, F. (2000). The Mobilization of Bias Revisited: Institutional Design, Cultural Bias and Policy-Oriented Learning. In: van Heffen, O., Kickert, W.J.M., Thomassen, J.J.A. (eds) Governance in Modern Society. Library of Public Policy and Public Administration, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9486-8_13
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