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100			_aWanckel, Camilla _942195
245			_aIntroducing a digital tool for sustainability impact assessments within the German federal government: A neo-institutional perspective
260			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
300			_a89(2), Jun, 2023: p.433-449
520			_aThis study examines the institutionalization of information technologies for policy formulation by investigating the case of eNAP. The digital tool was introduced in the spring of 2018 with the aim of supporting and improving sustainability impact assessments (SIAs) within the German Federal Government. Applying a neo-institutional perspective, this study shows how a tool like eNAP is embedded into prevailing regulative, normative, and cultural–cognitive structures. Findings from 10 semi-structured interviews indicate that the application of eNAP varies according to intra-ministerial coordination practices and portfolio-specific information-processing schemata. Overall, the tool serves to translate the abstract regulation to conduct an SIA, as well as to translate the vague norm of “sustainability” into a concrete assessment requirement, thereby helping increase policy officials’ awareness of sustainability goals. However, consistent with previous studies, great importance is not attached to SIAs in policy formulation, and prevailing norms and routines make the implementation of eNAP to increase the use of evidence or in-depth considerations of policy alternatives and their consequences unlikely.- Reproduced
650			_aICTs, Ministerial bureaucracies, Impact assessment, Sustainability, Neo-institutionalism, Policy formulation. _939553
773			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
906			_aINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
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