STEPS methods #2: Wider context in governance, politics and institutions
1. STEPS Pathways Methods
PART 2
Wider context in governance, politics and institutions
Professor Andy Stirling
Co-director, STEPS Centre
www.steps-centre.org
www.sussex.ac.uk/spru
www.multicriteria-mapping.org
5. Help Appreciate Alternative Pathways
Method alone can’t do whole job: also involves encompassing process
Methods are conditioned by – but can also shape – institutions and practices
… “below the radar”; “Trojan horses”; “political judo”
Overall Aims
6. Help Appreciate Alternative Pathways
Method underpins both understanding and judgement; knowledge and action
Method alone can’t do whole job: also involves encompassing process
Overall Aims
7. Help Appreciate Alternative Pathways
Method underpins both understanding and judgement; knowledge and action
Critical focus on alternatives: reflecting and favouring marginal interests
Method alone can’t do whole job: also involves encompassing process
Overall Aims
8. STEPS Methodology:
ordered repertoire of conditionally-appropriate methods – together prioritising
scope, depth, sensitivity, complementarity, synergy and enabling of reflexivity
Help Appreciate Alternative Pathways
Method underpins both understanding and judgement; knowledge and action
Critical focus on alternatives: reflecting and favouring marginal interests
Repertoires: sensitive to context, positioning and plural views and pathways
Method alone can’t do whole job: also involves encompassing process
Overall Aims