Policy change and policy learning in post-socialist wildlife policy in Slovenia : a case study of hunting rights

Šinko, Milan (author)

The article is a case study of the formation of wildlife policy, taking hunting rights in Slovenia as a specific example. The main analytical goal is to identify the presence of policy learning in the formation of wildlife policy in the period 1990-2004. This was a period when, owing to the process of social and political transition, the dynamic of policy formation was particularly strong. The research model is based on the theory of policy learning and policy diffusion and incorporates a review of the existing body of research on policy learning in other transition countries and in Slovenia. To identify the presence of policy learning, we used indicators of instrumental, social and political learning. Our main hypothesis, namely, that policy learning was not the trigger of policy change, was tested by applying the following mechanisms of policy diffusion: emulation, coercion and economic competition. We demonstrated the presence of political learning which led to changes in hunting rights, corresponding to the concept of institutional adjustment or patching. Instrumental and social learning were not detected, nor were mechanisms of policy diffusion.

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2015
• Number of pages: Str. 1056-1076, 1245
• Numbering: Letn. 52, št. 6
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-85431
• UDC: 351:639.1(497.4)
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 33785181
• Publication date in RUL: 20.09.2016

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian

Abstract

Članek predstavlja študijo primera oblikovanja politike divjadi na primeru lovskih pravic v Sloveniji. Poglavitni analitični namen članka je ugotoviti navzočnost javnopolitičnega učenja pri oblikovanju politike divjadi v obdobju 1990%2004. Gre za obdobje družbene tranzicije, v katerem je bila dinamika oblikovanja politik močno povečana. Raziskovalni model je oblikovan na teoriji javnopolitičnega učenja in razširitve javne politike ter vsebuje tudi pregled obstoječe literature na temo javnopolitičnega učenja v preostalih tranzicijskih državah in v Sloveniji. Za določitev prisotnosti učenja smo uporabili indikatorje instrumentalnega, družbenega in političnega učenja. Izhodiščno hipotezo, da javnopolitično učenje ni bilo vzrok javnopolitične spremembe, smo preverili z uporabo naslednjih mehanizmov razširitve javne politike: emulacije, prisile in ekonomskega tekmovanja. Dokazali smo prisotnost političnega učenja, ki je vodilo v spremembo lovskih pravic na način, ki ustreza konceptu institucionalne prilagoditve - popravljanja. Instrumentalnega in družbenega javnopolitičnega učenja nismo dokazali, kot tudi ne mehanizmov razširitve javne politike.

• Keywords: lovstvo, lovske pravice, politika divjadi, učenje