Governance in Norway and Poland:Can Unequal Partners Learn Anything from Each Other?
Governance in Norway and Poland:Can Unequal Partners Learn Anything from Each Other?

Summary/Abstract: Poland and Norway are unequal partners when it comes to governance and the anagement f issues such as security, migration and energy. One still ranks relatively low according to ood governance indicators, having had to reinvent its whole system of government following he fall of communism; the other ranks high. One has spent two decades adapting to the EU’s ules; the other remains outside that framework but decided to sign an agreement on the uropean Economic Area that has made it a quasi-member without direct access to decision- aking bodies. At the same time, the hierarchy—an element of inequality—hinders the earning process between the countries. Can Poland and Norway learn anything from each ther? This paper, which sets out some of the thinking underpinning the GoodGov project, rovides some answers. Following a brief review of the literature on policy learning, it dentifies “experimentalist governance” as the model best suited to the two countries, before losing with some practical remarks about how such a model might look.

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