Strategic foresight and policy evaluation : insights for an integrated approach

DE VITO, Laura; TAFFONI, Gaia

doi:10.1017/err.2023.77

Strategic foresight and policy evaluation : insights for an integrated approach

dc.contributor.author	DE VITO, Laura
dc.contributor.author	TAFFONI, Gaia
dc.date.accessioned	2023-11-09T11:14:08Z
dc.date.available	2023-11-09T11:14:08Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description	Published online: 09 November 2023	en
dc.description.abstract	Grand challenges are shaping twenty-first-century politics. Threats connected to health, climate, demographics and welfare are increasingly intruding on the lives of citizens. Still, governments are often found off-guard, and policymakers need strategies grounded in longer-term perspectives. Strategic foresight (SF) helps us to design and shape policies to prepare to withstand shocks, anticipating and adapting to changes. However, as governments work towards embedding SF into their policymaking processes, the empirical evidence suggests that applications are still piecemeal and predominantly limited to the agenda-settings and policy formulation stages. In this article, we argue that to drive anticipatory governance, foresight needs to be applied at all stages of the policy cycle, including in evaluating policies to draw lessons for future interventions. We maintain that considering SF systemically throughout the policymaking cycle, from agenda setting to evaluation, strengthens anticipatory governance.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - CUP Transformative Agreement (2023-2025)	en
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dc.identifier.citation	European journal of risk regulation, 2023, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 800-806	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1017/err.2023.77
dc.identifier.endpage	806
dc.identifier.issn	2190-8249
dc.identifier.issn	1867-299X
dc.identifier.issue	4
dc.identifier.startpage	800
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76016
dc.identifier.volume	14
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dc.publisher	Cambridge University Press	en
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dc.rights.license	Attribution 4.0 International	en
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dc.title	Strategic foresight and policy evaluation : insights for an integrated approach	en
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