This article uses the concept of policy inaction to analyse data about the implementation of policy evaluations and public inquiries. Consequently, it produces outputs for two audiences. For those interested in policy learning and policy implementation the analysis identifies four ‘moments’ in which forms of inaction can influence the implementation of learned lessons in positive and negative ways. For those interested in policy inaction, these moments speak to a series of calls for further research about this emerging concept, which relate to the methodological challenges of knowing inaction, the need to explain how and why governments offload policy, and the need to explore the functional and dysfunctional effects of inaction. Taken together, these outputs contribute knowledge directly to three areas of the policy sciences: agenda management studies, policy implementation studies and, more broadly, efforts to understand policy learning.

本文运用政策不作为的概念，对政策评估和公众查询执行情况的数据进行分析。因此，它为两个受众产生输出。对于那些对政策学习和政策实施感兴趣的人，该分析确定了四个“时刻”，在这些“时刻”，不作为会以积极和消极的方式影响所吸取的经验教训的实施。对于那些对政策不作为感兴趣的人来说，这些时刻呼吁对这一新兴概念进行进一步研究，这与了解不作为的方法学挑战、解释政府如何以及为何放弃政策的必要性以及探索不作为的功能性和功能性影响。总而言之，这些产出直接为政策科学的三个领域贡献了知识：