TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hannah, A
AU  - Baekkeskov, E
Y2  - 2020/12/16
Y1  - 2020/05/29
SN  - 0032-2687
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/11343/254458
AB  - Recent scholarship posits that ambiguous (‘polysemic’) ideas are efective for coalition
building between diverse stakeholders: their capacity to be interpreted diferently attracts
diferent interests. Hence, in search of political solutions to ‘wicked’ and similarly complex problems, deploying polysemic ideas would be critical to efective policy-making.
This paper scopes the policy-making potential of polysemic ideas by examining the impact
of an ambiguous concept known as ‘One Health’ on responses to antimicrobial resistance
(AMR) in Australia and the UK. It ofers two primary arguments. Firstly, polysemic ideas
can help mobilise broad attention to complex problems: since One Health became associated with AMR, political and administrative attention has grown more intense and coordinated than previously. Secondly, however, a polysemic idea alone may be insufcient
to generate efective action: the contrast between Australian and UK AMR policies illustrates that polysemic ideas do not suspend interests, institutions, or ideas that can be readily
deployed.
LA  - English
PB  - SPRINGER
T1  - The promises and pitfalls of polysemic ideas: 'One Health' and antimicrobial resistance policy in Australia and the UK
DO  - 10.1007/s11077-020-09390-3
IS  - Policy Sciences: an international journal devoted to the improvement of policy making
VL  - 53
IS  - 3
SP  - 437-452
ER  -