Data · dataset · 2026
Policy design and complexity: community relations policy in Northern Ireland since The Agreement
Listed in ZivaHub and Deakin Research Online and DMU Figshare and UCL Research Data Repository — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.17034/32631678.v1
This research makes an original contribution to the knowledge of policy design and implementation in complex environments by linking it to an examination of evolving government strategy on community relations in Northern Ireland.
Description
Complexity theory is used for the first time to conduct an analysis of the most recent government consultation on community relations with a view to examining the implications for future policy making.
The research concludes that due to the emergent nature of the issues, there are limits to the role linear strategies can play in this area of public policy. Community relations policy design and implementation in Northern Ireland must work in and with the intricacy of its dynamic and complicated domain. This intricacy is not an obstacle to be wholly overcome by policy.
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Nevertheless, policy has a part to play even when intricacy is inherent to the nature of community relations and the domain is understood as an organic open system. In this study a co-evolutionary, flexible process between policy makers and the complicated open system they seek to influence is explored through the stakeholders’ role in the emergence of community relations policy. Engaged citizens are a more important component of successful community relations policy than has been acknowledged up to this point.
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Where it is published
- DOI doi.org/10.17034/32631678.v1 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from zivahub uct ac za
Catalogue records · 1
- OAI-PMH record api.figshare.com/v2/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai%3Af… ↗
metadata API · from zivahub uct ac za
Topics
Provenance · 4 source records, 8 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZivaHub | oai:figshare.com:article/32631678 | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Deakin Research Online | oai:figshare.com:article/32631678 | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
| DMU Figshare | oai:figshare.com:article/32631678 | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
| UCL Research Data Repository | oai:figshare.com:article/32631678 | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · rdr ucl ac uk | connector:rdr_ucl_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · dro deakin edu au | connector:dro_deakin_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | connector:figshare_dmu_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/description |
| license_text | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/title |