Public Management - Science topic

Dear Mpilo Ngubane ，

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In a VUCA world, public managers, like all managers, should adopt an agile mindset. This entails not only the application of agile methodologies but also a commitment to continuously delivering value by understanding the needs and perspectives of each stakeholder (agile mindset).

This can be achieved by involving citizens in the process and steering towards alternative design solutions that meet the population's needs. Public managers are expected to:

Externality is the impact on others that would not be taken into account by a person in his calculation of costs and benefits. Externality is the foundation of people's aggregation in the city. So, it is the basic problem facing a city manager that needs to be tackled everyday.

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Hi Thalita Laua Reis Campos! Thank you very much for participating in this discussion. I believe that TBL is essential for the development of solid waste management. In my vision, I suggested that it should be an indirect action because it doesn't directly operationalize waste treatment and disposal, but with actions that could improve its impacts on the environmental level (as in the case of developing awareness campaigns), social level (as in campaigns that encourage the exchange of waste for food), and economic level (encouraging the structure of the commercialization of recyclable items, so that the collectors can have better profit margins and can dedicate themselves to the activity because they are key players in the reduction of waste). In the case of Environmental Solution, I classified it as direct, because this pillar deals directly with the operationalization of waste management, such as thermal or biological treatment plants or the use of waste to produce renewable energy. But anyway, this is just an opinion in which I am analyzing its consistency, and the insights that you are providing me are very important. Best regards!

make with SWOT analysis.

SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, and so a SWOT analysis is a technique for assessing these four aspects of your business.

SWOT Analysis is a tool that can help you to analyze what your company does best right now, and to devise a successful strategy for the future. SWOT can also uncover areas of the business that are holding you back, or that your competitors could exploit if you don't protect yourself.

A SWOT analysis examines both internal and external factors – that is, what's going on inside and outside your organization. So some of these factors will be within your control and some will not. In either case, the wisest action you can take in response will become clearer once you've discovered, recorded and analyzed as many factors as you can.

SWOT seems simple, but, if used carefully and collaboratively, it can be very revealing. For example, you may be well aware of some of your organization's strengths, but until you record them alongside weaknesses and threats you might not realize how unreliable those strengths actually are. Equally, you likely have reasonable concerns about some of your business weaknesses but, by going through the analysis systematically, you could find an opportunity, previously overlooked, that could more than compensate.

In this article, video and infographic, we explore how to carry out a SWOT analysis, and how to put your findings into action. We also include a worked example and a template to help you get started on a SWOT analysis in your own workplace.

Public Administration Review or Public Management Review are top journals, among many others.

Dear Vladimir Fagundes,

Thank you for answering the question:

How to increase the efficiency of state delivery of public goods?

You indicated the key factors of improving institutional solutions for creating and offering public goods to citizens and the important factors of developing cooperation between institutions of the public and private sector.

Thank you, Greetings,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Dear Sigit Setiawan I have a review paper on the subject. It might be interesting to you

Regards

Mohamed

Here is an emprical test of the substitution effect of bribery and corruption in Bulgaira.

he findings suggest that bribery is used primarily when companies are engaged in hidden economic activities and circumvention of the law, while networks turn out to be the only significant variable when firms attempt to influence new legislation or acquire public procurement contracts.

At 3.18 Wuhan reported no new cases for the first time since the outbreak started.As Tedros said,Wuhan provides hope for the rest of the world that even the most severe situation can be turned around.For the most difficult situation, the best enlightenment is to show people that the difficulty can be solved.Countless great ordinary people bring this outbresk under control.Here I show some cases that I personally experienced or witness and give some feeling from the perspective of public management:

Picture-1 is a community sentry of small town I lived,people get temperature monitoring when they are getting in or out the intersection.There are bulletin and notice board in the front,you can see the QR-code there.Picture-2 is inside the tent,where staff work and rest.Staff consists of volunteer and employees of state-owned enterprises.We are on duty by turns everyday,24/7.Most of volunteers are college students and most of employees are Communist Party members.Every communtiy in this town have one or two sentries like this and this is the representative case of Chinese Mainland.

This sentry may seem ordinary but every details are supported by the incredible industrial and mobilization capability of my country.

1、Public support:Under this special situation,everyone do understand and support the policy and measures with concrete action.All chinese communities accept community grid management and try to stay at home,accept testing,less contact etc;

2、Medical Security：Chinse Health Insurance covers 1.35 billion people and we can use web services through Wechat or other apps.During this crisis,the testing and treatment cost is basically paid by the state,that means coronavirus pneumonia patients have no worry during treatment.I heard that some British clinic sell test kit to the rich and disregard poor people without medical insurance and that's not good at all just like herd immunity .Chinese local government also reward in cash if people get fever and get to hospital from their own initiative,reward more if diagnosis and register in hospital.Encourage medical treatment is proved much more cost saving compared than negative treatment by the cases in china.There are punishment for concealment and disseminate infection,of course.

3、Mobilization：In many dangerous situation,CPC members should be pioneer,just like today's health crisis.Whole country take epidemic situation as the first priority.Doctors and nurses from 16 provinces were drafted to help cities surrounding Wuhan just after lockdown,one province taking care of one city.Cities locked down if necessary,many economic and public activities stopped but the production activities of protective appliances must keep on unconditional.

4、Production policy：For instance，enterprise in Jiangxi province product nearly half of dialysis in China，dialysis is very important for ICU units.These production lines resume production immediately and multiple output after the outbreak and support dialysis for all the country.Every communtiy need masks and temperature guns,hospitals need protective gears and ventilators.All these materials,whether superfluous or not,wll be purchased by chinese government as strategic materials for extreme cases in future,then those companies can work at full capacity without worries.

5、National capacity：China usually produces 4.5 billion masks, accounting for half of the global demand past years, and expected to produce 312.5 billion masks or more by the end of this year.That is becaus the production capacity of all country focus on medical protective equipment.Petroleum enterprises change the line of production,food enterprises change the line of production,even main battle tank and J-20 stealth fighter jet factories product gauze maskes these days.

6、Paperless office：Picture-3 is the QR-code I use during epidemic period,which contain my identity and healthy information.These information are connected to neighborhood committee,they can scan this code instead of paper record.I heard that people in France should take paper documentary proof everyday after announce of isolation measures,France may have paper-office tradition but electronic means may be much more effective in this extreme situation.

7、Technological capability：Except the large scale application of QR-code,China use many technological means during epidemic period.Beidou navigation system help build field hospitals in Wuhan,with 5G and big data technology it become possible to trail 5 million people who left Wuhan just before lockdown,drones are used to advise the public to prevent gathering in Wuhan or other place difficult to use manpower.All these means are much more meaningful to save lives,rather than shout the slogan of privacy or what.

8、National strength：We call PLA the people's army and we trust and depend on them.They join and help in every natural disaster in China just like this one.PLA settled in Wuhan after lockdown and this is a reassurance for Wuhan people.Except army,market authority play important role in the save and stable of our society.Food,medicine,especially protective articles must not price increase rapidly,drastic actions were taken and severe punishment measures were adopted.

I know some above measures may be controversial and get criticism from some mainstream media because they are not in line with Western values,but all measures are taken to save lives,there is no bargain.We should also know that those are not numbers in policy making,but lives waiting for help.

Thank you, I use Mendeley for managing publications. It's also great. But I am searching for something, what don't need installation in computer. I just need to have a table of articles in my flash drive, for easier searching publications in folders :-)

A big management issue is that the Public Service plays an important role in many Pacific Island countries, but it consumes much of governments' resources. Weak economies, often build on weak resource basis (with the exception of most of the Melanesian countries) have impacts also on public management.

A most interesting question! I wonder if breaking it down could be of help. If I understand you correctly, the thrust of the question is about relations between the 'happiness' of groups. Setting aside the tricky matter of what 'happiness' is, we are left with the idea that the happiness of one 'group' - tourists - may impact the happiness of another group - 'locals'. We could, perhaps, think of this as 'locals' and 'non-locals' . Here, the issue of locality, suggests the prime dimension of difference is connection to (and use of) place - it is about the happiness derived from use of (consumption of) places by those with different kinds of connection to place. Presumably the connection is time - each group being more or less temporary consumers of place. From the perspective of locals, the question is how temporary consumers of place affect them - while from the perspective of non-locals the question is how less temporary consumers of place affect them. Negative effects detract from the experience of either - producing varying results in terms of 'happiness' (however conceived). Depending on how happiness is conceived, you might divide the groups further into different kinds of local and non-local groups (for instance, business tourists versus other kinds of tourists and different kinds of locals - business operators, residents and so on). Happiness effects of place consumption by other groups might then vary for each subgroup.

For instance, happiness for tourists is often measured by 'satisfaction' (various pre- and post- measures being used - see for example work by Metin Kozak), though lately things have shifted to the idea of 'visitor experience'. More generally, happiness int he workplace is often measured by various measures of 'wellbeing', and there are plenty of workplace studies that operationalize this construct in the context of various settings of employment. Life quality and quality of life are also used as indicators of well being in place or occupational contexts. One way would be to take some of these measures and apply them. Another way could be to develop the construct. For instance, I wonder if it could be interesting to see if you could develop a new construct of 'happiness' in the context of tourism place - to investigate what the construct of 'happiness' means in this context and point towards an operable construct that might cuts across different types of place consumers.

Yes

The best approach for Public policy making and dissemination is dependent on the nature and situation of the country. In underdeveloped countries, Public policy making and dissemination should follow what I termed VERTIPROCATIONAL APPROACH which is a vertical reciprocal approach both in the making and in the dissemination to ensure active involvement of both the public policy makers, the government and the citizens. This is more of an improved development-participatory management approach. The reason for this approach is that, if it flows top-down, then public policy becomes an imposition and if it flows bottom-up; then there would be tendencies of non-implementation of public policies because the requirements of the people might be beyond government fiscal capability. However, this approach will aid in both policy making, policy supervision and policy evaluation as each party is fully integrated in on equal basis in the policy processes

Dear Fred

If you need more references please le me know. i could also try and retrieve my Leeds University lecture PPTs which I used for teaching a Leeds

Best wishes

Colin Barnes

Here is a research proposal that includes a questionnair on mental health:

Much depends on the nature of the decision, in light of which actors can engage in different types of thinking. "Everyday" decision-making requires little competence and can be accomplished in "default" mode: in such cases, people have a strong tendency to stick with the tried and tested (or trusted). More complex decision-making—to be defined, of course, but recognizing that everything is relative—may call for more analysis and deliberation and even a good deal of mental effort; supposing there is an optimal strategy, which is not necessarily the case, this is where bounded rationality, cognitive bias, personality, and free will come in (and tools for debiasing are relevant). Most importantly, the process of decision-making is impacted by the number of people associated with it; these days, complex decision-making tasks demands teamwork (and can fall prey to the vagaries of that). Not to forget, since this query relates to the public sector, hierarchy does weigh in and not every decision maker is equal. may be of interest.

Dear Tomazs,

In my context, making a generalization seems difficult. Every alternative in the literature (e.g. strategy follows sturucture; structure follows strategy; they interact with each other; they are independent) seems possible under certain conditions. For example, public organizations sometimes adopt some structures ceremonically that are dictated by some forceful organizations. In this situation, structure can be independent (decoupled-loose coupled) from strategy of related organization. Good luck in your studies!

Best regards,

Mehmet

Thanks so far for any feedback and answers, all will be regarded. Any article I find or new perspective on my search tot relevant literature will be shared here. There must be a framework, a model, already tested hypothesis around the question how getting results, achieving goals is effecting ones motivation (smile). The fact that it's hard to find, makes my own research the more interesting.

Hi!

I have noted that you have got some good advices and recommended articles. This might add to them:

Also, check the list of References in the above study. Further I can recommend a review made by Cummings targeting leadership styles and different outcomes.

Hope you find what you are searching for!

Marcus

I have an article coming soon will happy to share it with you

 Dear Prof. Murat,

Thank you so much.

At some point, I think you will have to decide whether you want to look at transparency as an independent or a dependent variable.  If as an independent variable, you probably should think about what you think greater transparency could or should accomplish, outline the mechanisms through which you think transparency might influence your dependent variables.  For example, full transparency in budgeting should reduce the level of government corruption, say in contracting, because it would make clear what the costs are for what services provided by whom, and if the government was paying much more for a service than it seems that it could, it would look suspicious...full transparency might increase public confidence that tax money was being spend in accordance with the budget or with national needs, and would reveal the priorities of the government, that is, proportionally, how much of the money is going to defense, or to historic preservation, or child health.  Possibly transparency could reduce the level of public alienation.  Full transparency in governmental reporting--say making inspector general reports public--should, could or might increase accountability.  If you cannot come up with a likely mechanism linking transparency to your dependent variables of interest, you should omit those dependent variables from the analysis.  Or do a different study of the determinants of the dependent variable you are most interested in.

The same kind of logic should apply if you use transparency as your dependent variable, what variables might influence the degree of openness and transparency and how do they operate, through what mechanisms?  To me, these questions are less obvious, the research topic is wide open, waiting for eager researchers.  You might have to look at variations in openness that have occurred in the past and see if you can ferret out what might have been involved in those cases, and then design a study around those independent variables to see how they work.  

Irene

Long term formal and informal institutons should support regilations, otherwise cheaters will always find a way to g junp over them.

Dear Tinnaphop, I would recommend you to read Teodor Shanin´s "Marxism and the vernacular revolutionary traditions", in Late Marx and the Russian Road: Marx and 'the peripheries of capitalism". You may also found similarities in the conflict between Russian Orthodox Marxists and the vernacular revolutionaries and your current topic. Good luck.

Teodor Shanin, “Marxism and the vernacular revolutionary traditions”, in Late Marx and the Russian Road: Marx and ‘the peripheries of capitalism’, Monthly Review Press (New York, 1983) p.255

Dear William and Isi

Thank you for the clear and thoughtful answers.  We will follow up with them.

Best Cheyanne

On Knowledge Behaviors, available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266477251_On_Knowledge_Behaviors, may be of interest. With particular reference to knowledge sharing, the article argues that where large organizations make an effort to boost certain behaviors the solutions they fabricate can aggravate problems. Instead, designing jobs for knowledge behaviors and recruiting people who are positive about sharing to start with will boost knowledge stocks and flows at low cost. There must be implications for bureaucratic management to impact employee behavior elsewhere.

I can refer you to three classic sources on decision making by Presidents of the U.S. which can be applied to executive decision making in the public and private sectors.  All of them discuss decision making as a process:  Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power; Graham Allison, The Essence of Decision; and Irving Janis, Groupthink. 

Listening is the most important thing outsiders can do. Then, ask clarifying questions-- people on the ground know a great deal.   

Please read the book edited by Osborne, Stephen P. (2010), on “The New Public Governance? Routledge:London

and

Book "Public Administration and Public Governance" Author: Khan Mohammad Mohabbat, (2016) , AHDP:Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Hi, there is a special number of the journal "Educação & Sociedade" with the european approaches about NMP

GRIMALDI, Emiliano; SERPIERI, Roberto  e  TAGLIETTI, Danilo. Games of truth. new public management and the modernisation of the Italian Education System. Educ. Soc. [online]. 2015, vol.36, n.132, pp.759-778. ISSN 0101-7330.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/ES0101-73302015152327.

Emmanuel,  I appreciate the semantic difficulties that this discussion faces and I need to address this before saying any more.... The word  'institutions' in the context of your question would appear to refer to quite specifically to organisational administrative and governing structures in the public domain.  If you are in agreement then what I now say is relevant to this.

The 'strength' or rather efficacy, resilience and durability of any of these public organs of service delivery is  itself a function of the strength and presence of many other institutions of a completely different nature.  In fact institutions of many different natures.  These institutions extend right back into the 'factors' which other commentators here have identified.  These include the norms and values which are prevalent within the society, as well as the mechanisms for monitoring, calling to account, sanctioning and the inherent recognition of responsibility and 'honour'as personal qualities to be admired.  All of these contribute , for each society - defined at whatever granularity you s=choose, their 'institutional landscape'.

Like the human body, no part is greater or less than any other.  All are required for proper functioning at the expected level of efficacy, durability and resilience.  A society cannot accept local cheating, nepotism, favouritism and exploitation and demand saintly conduct at higher levels without accepting one's own individual hypocrisy and its consequences.... in a properly functioning democracy.  Of which I know not of any..

The reason is that the day-to-day imposition, sanctioning or acceptance, of these societal institutions, which I have extended the discussion to include, is arbitrated by the position an individual sits in in relationship to local administrative power structures - both formal and informal. These relationships are essentially reflections of the circumstances and nature of the economic relationships which exist within the local society, or community.  In aggregation at higher domains of societal grouping the effect of consistency in the institutional landscapes across the local levels upon which they stand is to amplify and strengthen their chief characteristics.   If local institutions are instrumental in imposing and maintaining exploitative economic relationships, irresponsible office bearers and  a lack of fear of accountability for injustices committed then these will be amplified as they are aggregated.

This does not need peer reviewed papers to know the truth of.  Consider your own experiences and conscience.  Similarly, it is almost self-evident  - though some factuals would be good to see -  that this argument suggests that those institutions of society which arbitrate the allocation and holding of private property, and which arbitrate the access that each individual has to those opportunities he needs to apply and benefit from the whole of his own efforts, skills and knowledge  - on any equal footing with every other member of that society, are key in determining the relationships of power which are inevitably the causal root, in almost every case, of the the institutional failings of which we speak.

It is equally clear, therefore, that the correction of such wide ranging and axiomatic failings in the components of our 'institutional landscapes' address failings in elements which are foundational to the social paradigm, or cultural hegemonies, within which we have our existence and in which we live our lives, dream our dreams and build our hopes and expectations for the future.

A small amount of further examination suggests that since we widely identify and express a dissatisfaction with the endemic existing of these ills with which the question is concerned then perhaps a fundamental disconnect exists between our prevailing 'norms' and 'values', and hence our expectations, and those which are intrinsic to the characteristics of those more formal and less dynamically responsive elements of the 'institutional landscapes' within which live our lives.

This 'institutional lag' is inevitable unless there is within our 'institutional' paradigm a requirement for those institutions by which the dynamism of the whole landscape is facilitated in a way which, whilst being considerate of the passing wisdoms of the past is still enabled to embrace the future...  as we as individuals and our societies evolve under the influence of our developing technologies, knowledge, metaphysical qualities, local and planetary environments and cosmological neighbourhood.

We do not yet have this, in the public domain.  Asking your question... again and again... will help to bring that new paradigm forth from the nooks and crannies of the socio-economic heterodoxy.  At present there is a well recognised void... a vacuum of reason and principles.  It must be filled.

Robin

I have written about this in my book, Development Projects for a New Millennium.  I would say that NPM may be suitable for routine tasks but let's not forget that in a context of patron-client relations and corruption, simply making formal changes is likely to be superficial, and the private sector/subcontractor if that is the form it takes, is just as likely to be corrupt as the public sector.  See my new special edition of Journal of Developing Societies on the topic of corruption reform.

Well, this sounds as an interesting starting point. If you need it for regression analysis, you could try to plug this pca, and then alternatively the 6 original ones, and then check the sources of the different results. Good luckl!

You may wish to read these two articles:

1) Galetto and Marginson (2011) where the NPM established more independent public sector providers, particularly in the health sector, for instance turning English NHS hospitals into Foundation Trusts at arm's length from direct government control: https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/research/irru/wpir/gusto_papers/gust_wp6_4.pdf

2) Bossert et al. (2003) where performance improvements by service providers in Zambia have been rewarded with greater freedom from government control. DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czg044.

Hope they are of help.

I am not quite sure, but maybe my experience will be relevant. In our research of urban policy networks in Russian megapolis we defined 5 groups of actors: (1) public administration instituitions, (2) municipalities (administrative and legislative bodies), (3) business and business associations (which are nonprofit but represent business interests), (4) NGOs, (5) not institutionalised civic initiatives (which usually are networks of civic activists) 

Thank you yet again Brian.

All the best,

Carlos

One, there has to be openness in governance, friendly policies, rule of law, freedom of information (constructive criticism of governance), subsidized and affordable Internet services provision etc. will help.

NPM emphasised achieving  an efficient result without considering the basic principle of fairness and justice. Public administrators are expected to act like businessmen pursuing efficiency and consumer satisfaction without consideration for value.  In Nigeria, most policies put in places like commercialization and privatisation, management by objective, deregulation concession, and in recent times, Public- private- partnership have not achieved much. Even, other public service reforms implemented to make the public service more result oriented and as well ensure effective service delivery have failed. NPM has made the public servants  less accountable and transparent, more selfish, dishonest and corrupt.. (See my papers on Nigerian public service and service delivery ,MEASURES PUT IN PLACE TO CURB INDISCIPLINE IN THE NIGERIAN PUBLIC SERVICE, Corruption and service delivery: the case of Nigerian public service, and Corruption and Challenges of National Development)

Therefore, what we need is a kind of home-grown initiatives suitable for our own peculiar situation .

Actually, NPM was never theoretically or conceptually accurate; the fundamental flaws lie in the distinctions between public and private goods, and between customers and  citizens.  Wilson advanced these misconceptions when he claimed one could adopt the practices of the felonious knife-sharpener without becoming a criminal. NPM suffered from these basic problems from Minnowbrook onward.  In my view, I believe that NPM and allied theories are at the root of the rapid drop in citizen trust in government and the financial mess most governments now face.

I would highly recommend McDermott's book on education.

McDermott, K. A. (2011). High-stakes reform: The politics of educational accountability. Georgetown University Press.

The best policy position on ICM, is the one that follow the concept of "given water a space". That is reduce/prevent development that tend to squeeze on catchment areas. In addition, it is important to accept the connect between river catchment and the coast of the lake they emptied to. Thus the ICM and integrated coastal/lake management should have a linkage, because some development eg. dam construction on a river could have a significant impact on the coast. Particularly the morphdynamic of the estuary  and the coastline downdrift.

involvement from the different stakeholders should be the key. encouraging the set up of interdisciplinary faculty and centers would also facilitate.

Hi Charles,

I suggest you also read "Fatal Misconceptions: The Struggle to Control World Population" by Mathew Connelly, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.

Regards, Ivan

Dear David, Please explain the reasons for your concerns and some references to explain more about the CDF and its methods and goals.   Robin

Hi Everybody,

I was wondering can we assign a particular time frame for evolution of Post Modernism in Public Administration , making it more relevant to fit in the paradigm of Public Administration?

Second is there any difference in the post structuralist approach and Post modern in Public Administration(PA) and its impact on PA ?

The adoption of fiscal prudence,responsibility and discipline mechanisms will be of help

The civil service is the trustee of the public trust. Citizens rely on the commitment of officials to work for the general interest, demonstrating impartiality and daily administering public resources appropriately. Fair and reliable public administration inspires confidence to the public and create a favorable business climate, thus contributing to the smooth functioning of markets and the growth of the economy. Ethics in government is needed to strengthen the confidence of the public; it is the cornerstone of good governance.

Dear Bamboo Allcen,

Could you read Spanish? If yes, I recommend you to go tohttp://www.juntadeandalucia.es/haciendayadministracionpublica/planif_presup/genero/preguntas.htm

The Junta de Andalucia is using the GRB since 2003 and there you can find answers for your questions and solutions. 

If not, they have another page http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/haciendayadministracionpublica/planif_presup/genero/bibliografia/bibliografia_0.htm

where you can find a lot of bibliography in Spanish but also in English.

Good luck!!

Gloria

The "Fix rate" project of Integrity Action goes beyond anti-corruption, but I think it is relevant for your research: http://www.integrityaction.org/siobhan/fix-rate-%E2%80%93-citizens-can-make-difference

I propose new indexes to make better decisions. You can read about it in my articles.

According to Pollitt and Bouckaert, reforms are deliberate changes to the structures and processes of public sector organizations with the objective of getting them (in some sense) to run better. Although modernization is often perceived as a synonym of reforms, this term often means the objective or outcome of transition into a more advanced state/situation.  

there is no satisfactory creativity theory that I know of. I do however think environments more likely to release creative and spontaneous act and thoughts can be structured, but it still can not be measured and is unpredictable. I endorse Cecilia's comment.

You might also go a step further to examine more innovative forms of PPP, such as strategic alliances, which go beyond contract fulfillment and delve into more strategic issues of co-innovation. Haiying Lin and I have a couple of papers on this topic.

The first step will be to make a proposal of public goods and their benefits to society.then you can request the authorities to provide you basic info and data.

From a political perspective, key risks are 1) that privatization itself is both a product and producer of a particular ideology, and 2) that the global capitalist framework makes such decisions more or less irreversible. If interested, there are good documentaries on the issues you raise above, for example the effects on IMF policies for money lending to developing countries, which force countries to give up access to key infrastructure (e.g. privatisation of water supply and provision, which exclude the poor). 

Hi Laura, can I suggest you join the evidence-based policy in development network (https://partnerplatform.org/ebpdn/) and ask them this question -- it's a very lively community of people from across the world, and we've just had a short discussion about the use of SNA.  They'll be able to point you in the right direction.  

OPM has their Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey publicly available (from years 2004, 2006-2014).  You can mine this data to extract specific questions or use their defined workplace indices.  I used this data in my dissertation stratifying by generation.

Lisa, we are finding that 'who' a policy is successful for is very important. A policy that is successful for one set of stakeholders may not be successful for other stakeholders. And the policy measures selected tend to reflect which stakeholders vested interests are given prominence, which usually reflects the power dynamics in particular situations.   

Thank you very much Thaneshwar.

I am clear now about these two perplexing concepts.

Dear Colin,

some years ago I started a challenging work about the rapid diffusion of policy innovations in different countries that have been characterized by a schizophrenic adoption of practices (“the factory of best practices) with governments utilizing those considered the ‘best’ as well as those deemed capable of actually providing solutions to policy problems. Nevertheless, the replication of policy innovations in different countries have been met with varying degrees of success.

The focal point of the study has been how to learn from the successes and failures of others in the field of public sector innovation. In my recent work (Evidence for public policy design – How to learn from best practices ed- Palgrave), I analyzed the adoption of the Standard Cost Model (a methodology to measure red tape and improve the quality of regulation ) in a number of European countries that provides an example of this due to it being met with success in some countries while failing inexplicably in others.

Focussing on policy transfer literature, classic studies on policy learning take interest in understanding the causal mechanism and, generally, the transfer of a policy from one country to another – which is what some call “lesson drawing” (Rose, 1991; 1993; 2004). Bardach (2008) and Barzelay (2009) tried to find a way to develop the concept of social mechanisms (Merton, Hedström and Swedberg, 1998) in order to understand the reasons of policy success.

Schneider and Ingram (1988) inquired the notion of “systematically pinching ideas” referring to the suggestion addressed to policy designers to adopt a more formal and rational selection process when policy ideas are transferred from other contexts, by comparing features of the different policy designs. I stressed and carefully inquired this point aiming at developing guidelines for policy analysts in order to evaluate the quality of best practices, to understand the reasons of success and to transfer innovations from a source case to a target case, presenting a final appraisal on how to design an effective policy.

I hope these inputs could be useful for you,

Best wishes,

Paola

NPM not opposite or supplementary to new gov ernance paradigm. While NPM is about an administrative practices, the new governance paradigm captures the larger relationship among government, market and civil society. NPM can be said to be part of new governance paradigm, but not necessarily; there are critiques of NPM within the new governance paradigm also.

Hi,

you can consult this article: Gregg G. Van Ryzin (2013): An Experimental Test of the Expectancy-Disconfirmation Theory of Citizen Satisfaction. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 32, No. 3, 597–614 (2013)

And the government people themselves have to be enthusiastic and interested what they do. Very often they seem only bureaucratic and routine oriented. One of the reasons for that I see the disappearance of clear left-right political division in internal affairs of the countries. Social problems can not be discussed without left-right discussions.

A.Guogis