Varieties of disagreement in transformative policy missions: A Q study on the decarbonization of Swedish industry
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| Title: | Varieties of disagreement in transformative policy missions: A Q study on the decarbonization of Swedish industry |
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| Authors: | Andersson, Johnn, 1983, Hellsmark, Hans, 1974, Johansson, Elizaveta |
| Source: | Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 58 |
| Subject Terms: | Q methodology, Mission-oriented innovation policy, Transformative policy mission, Stakeholder disagreement, Industrial decarbonization, Sustainability transitions |
| Description: | Governments increasingly launch transformative policy missions to address complex societal challenges such as climate change. While the literature on mission-oriented innovation policy highlights the role of stakeholder contestation and emphasizes the need to promote alignment, it often overlooks the nature of underlying disagreements. This paper distinguishes between factual and normative disagreement across problems, solutions, and interventions, and applies Q methodology to identify and analyze four distinct stakeholder narratives in the mission to decarbonize Swedish industry. The narratives reveal different varieties of disagreement, ranging from factual concerns about technological feasibility and policy effectiveness to normative critiques of directionality and legitimacy. Our findings demonstrate that missions involve not only alignment, but also disjointment – persistent divergences of opinion rooted in fundamentally conflicting values and beliefs. Recognizing disjointment underscores the need for mission-oriented policymaking to balance efforts to foster alignment with strategies that address enduring conflict through mediation, recognition, redistribution, and compensation. |
| File Description: | electronic |
| Access URL: | https://research.chalmers.se/publication/549311 https://research.chalmers.se/publication/549311/file/549311_Fulltext.pdf |
| Database: | SwePub |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | Governments increasingly launch transformative policy missions to address complex societal challenges such as climate change. While the literature on mission-oriented innovation policy highlights the role of stakeholder contestation and emphasizes the need to promote alignment, it often overlooks the nature of underlying disagreements. This paper distinguishes between factual and normative disagreement across problems, solutions, and interventions, and applies Q methodology to identify and analyze four distinct stakeholder narratives in the mission to decarbonize Swedish industry. The narratives reveal different varieties of disagreement, ranging from factual concerns about technological feasibility and policy effectiveness to normative critiques of directionality and legitimacy. Our findings demonstrate that missions involve not only alignment, but also disjointment – persistent divergences of opinion rooted in fundamentally conflicting values and beliefs. Recognizing disjointment underscores the need for mission-oriented policymaking to balance efforts to foster alignment with strategies that address enduring conflict through mediation, recognition, redistribution, and compensation. |
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| ISSN: | 22104232 22104224 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101069 |