The concept of robustness has received increasing scholarly attention regarding public policy and governance, where it has enhanced our understanding of how policies and governance are adapted and innovated in response to disruptive events, challenges, and demands associated with heightened societal turbulence. Yet, we know little about the robustness of the ideas undergirding the efforts to foster robust policymaking and public governance. Based on a review of recent strands of governance theory and the ideational turn in public policy research, we define a new ideational robustness concept, which can help us to explain why some governance and policy ideas persist, while others disappear. As the contributions to this special issue demonstrate, studying ideational robustness opens new avenues for reflecting on how the robustness of ideas may affect the robustness of public policy and governance.

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动荡时期的思想稳健性


稳健性的概念在公共政策和治理方面受到越来越多的学术关注，它增强了我们对如何调整和创新政策和治理以应对与社会动荡加剧相关的破坏性事件、挑战和需求的理解。然而，我们对支持强有力的政策制定和公共治理的努力的思想的稳健性知之甚少。基于对近期治理理论和公共政策研究理念转向的回顾，我们定义了一个新的理念稳健性概念，它可以帮助我们解释为什么一些治理和政策理念持续存在，而另一些则消失。正如本期特刊的贡献所表明的那样，研究理念的稳健性为反思理念的稳健性如何影响公共政策和治理的稳健性开辟了新的途径。