scholarly journals Why do Ministers Ask for Policy Evaluation Studies? The Case of the Flemish Government

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 701-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valérie Pattyn ◽  
Bart De Peuter ◽  
Marleen Brans
Keyword(s):  
Policy Evaluation ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Evaluation Studies ◽  
New Public ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Accountability Policy ◽  
Diachronic Study ◽  
Policy Fields ◽  
Set Up

AbstractPolicy evaluations can be set up for multiple purposes including accountability, policy learning and policy planning. The question is, however, how these purposes square with politics itself. To date, there is little knowledge on how government ministers present the rationale of evaluations. This article is the first to provide a diachronic study of discourse about evaluation purposes and encompass a wide range of policy fields. We present an analysis of evaluation announcements in so-called ministerial policy notes issued between 1999 and 2019 by the Flemish government in Belgium. The research fine-tunes available evidence on catalysts for conducting evaluations. The Flemish public sector turns out to be a strong case where New Public Management brought policy evaluation onto the agenda, but this has not resulted in a prominent focus on accountability-oriented evaluations. We further show that policy fields display different evaluation cultures, albeit more in terms of the volume of evaluation demand than in terms of preferences for particular evaluation purposes.

scholarly journals A register of public-sector research organizations as a tool for research policy studies and evaluation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedetto Lepori
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Evaluation Studies ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
New Public ◽  
Public Sector Organizations ◽  
Public Sector Research

Abstract This article presents the conceptual and methodological design of a register of public-sector organizations, as well as a preliminary delineation of such organizations in Europe. Conceptual and methodological issues are discussed, as well as the potential usage of the register for interlining datasets and analysis. The significance of the register for research policy and evaluation studies is also discussed, as related with changes associated with New Public Management reforms.

Tevredenheid over het lokaal beleid in Gent

Res Publica ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-631
Author(s):  
Carl Devos ◽  
Herwig Reynaert ◽  
Dries Verlet
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
New Public ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Main Determinants

According to the new public management, the interaction between (local) governments and their citizens should be "client oriented". It is considered crucial for (local) policy-makers that they know how citizens perceive the policy process, that they know if citizens are satisfied with policy outcomes.Our empirical study deals with the satisfaction with global local policy. We examine the main determinants of satisfaction with global local policy. This study is based on a face-to-face survey among citizens entitled to vote in Ghent. More than 1500 respondents, spread over 2 surveys, took part in our research.  Attention is also paid to the satisfaction with more specific aspects of local policy. We linked the voter's satisfaction with the global local policy to a wide range of traditional and less traditional independent variables. Finally, we discuss the satisfaction of the electorate of the different political parties.

Agencification revisited: trends in consolidation of central government administration in Europe

2020 ◽  
pp. 002085232097679
Author(s):  
Dawid Sześciło
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Strong Increase ◽  
The Public ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
New Public ◽  
Organizational Architecture ◽  
Set Up

Agencification was one of the main pillars of the New Public Management reforms in Europe in the 1980s and 1990s. The strong increase in the number of agencies and the extension of their autonomy (especially with regard to independent regulatory agencies) significantly changed the organizational architecture of governments. However, the review of organizational reforms implemented over the past two decades in European administrative systems demonstrates a trend towards the rationalization and consolidation of the agency landscape. This article provides insight into major forms and patterns of consolidation, including comprehensive, cross-sectoral agency rationalization initiatives and more selective reforms regarding specific policy areas or types of government functions. It also explores the background of the consolidation reforms, confirming that economic pressures affecting governments in the era of austerity played a crucial role in redefining the position of agencies in governments’ organizational set-up. Points for practitioners Agencies remain the main vehicle for policy implementation across Europe but the trend towards de-agencification emerged in the decade of the 2010s, represented by both comprehensive, cross-sectoral initiatives reducing the agency stock, and consolidations in specific policy areas or covering agencies of specific types. De-agencification was triggered by the 2008 global financial crisis that increased the pressure on the reduction of administrative expenditure. To a lesser extent, it was a reaction to the adverse effects of agencification, such as coordination and steering problems, or the ambiguous impact of agencification on the efficiency of the public administration.

Korea's Public Sector Reform After Currency Crisis: Motivations, Visions and Strategies

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Jaewan Bahk
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
Public Sector Reform ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
New Public ◽  
Set Up

This paper reviews the motivations, visions and strategies of the Kim Dae-Jung Administration’s public sector reform initiative, identifies promising features and problems, and brings up future tasks. A framework of analysis is set up based on systems analysis and change management. The initiative’s visions are largely successful in terms of setting up an infrastructure of structural reforms and institutionalizing the initiative as they properly focus on value-for-money and democracy. However, the new initiative pays relatively less attention to procedural democracy, an essential element to remedy the lop-sided operation of the Korean government. In accordance with five checkpoints suggested by the framework of analysis, the new initiative’s strategies are examined. Key features of the strategies are the followings: ( i ) tough leadership backed up by powerful driving agencies; ( ii ) top-down approaches; ( iii ) comprehensive scope with scattered safe harbors; ( iv ) conflicts and distortions from myopic perspectives and political motives; and ( v ) higher intensity and faster pace in compelled uniformity. Corresponding to these features, we suggested several tasks to be addressed. Among other things, a bottom-up approach and a clean up of the political context prior to or at least simultaneously with the new public management drive are indispensable for a successful reform.

Explaining reforms: post-New Public Management myths or political realities? Social housing delivery in England and France

2018 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Laffin
Keyword(s):  
Social Housing ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
New Public ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Service Delivery Systems

This article examines the assumption that recent reforms in social and public services can be understood as a transition from New Public Management to post-New Public Management. English and French social housing delivery are selected as two cases in which to test out this assumption, for ostensibly these delivery structures share significant cross-national, post-NPM similarities – a movement towards a more ‘enabling’ or steering role for central government, the creation of coordinating agencies, ‘decentralization’ initiatives, the extensive use of public–private arrangements to finance social housing and the involvement of a wide range of extra- and semi-governmental organizations. However, further investigation reveals that these reforms of delivery structures have not been predominantly driven by an unfolding post-NPM managerial or governance logic as the thesis assumes. Rather the reforms have been driven by the partisan electoral and ideological goals of central government policymakers within the context of institutional legacies and entrenched social values. Points for practitioners New Public Management and post-New Public Management have become the conventional wisdom on administrative reforms particularly in a comparative context. This article argues that these ideas reflect an impoverished understanding of public administration given that they assume that change occurs predominantly through the unfolding of managerial and/or governance logics. These logics exclude the critical role of the political parties and other socio-political factors, such as urban unrest, in driving change. This Anglo-French analysis of social housing delivery demonstrates the significance of these political factors in how policymakers define social problems, re-design and implement social housing service delivery systems.

scholarly journals Modernisation Trends in Public Administration in Slovenia

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 623-647
Author(s):  
Simona Kukovič ◽  
Gorazd Justinek
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Classical Model ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Optimal Direction ◽  
Public Administration Reform ◽  
New Public ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Management Approaches

The theory of public administration offers a wide range of paradigms or approaches that are developed as a consequence of various triggers from internal and external environment. The classical model of bureaucratic organization as outlined by Weber is no longer appropriate in modern countries, although it still remains the basis of public administration because of numerous transformations and upgrades. The first major reforms were introduced to public administration via the more modern and market-oriented New Public Management. However, Post-New Public Management approaches have recently developed as a reflection of social and political changes. In this paper, we offer an overview of modern approaches, which do not appear in pure form, but in the form of hybrids. There is no consensus, either in science or in practice, on the optimal direction of public administration development or on the preferential approach. This decision is left to the governments, bearing in mind that each public administration reform and hybridization of approaches affect the complexity of public administration. Analysing the reform of the Slovenian public administration, we have found that the current Strategy of Public Administration Development for 2015-2020 is based on modern elements and values of Post-New Public Management approaches and that reforms strive for modernization, but (as shown by the current crisis) a serious effort will be required in the future to achieve this goal.

scholarly journals Internal Audit and the Modernization of Moroccan Public Administrations

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
Mouard HAINOUS ◽  
Yassine SEKAKI ◽  
Imane AMIRI ◽  
Houria ZAAM
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Internal Audit ◽  
The Public ◽  
Management Standards ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
New Public ◽  
Major Turning Point ◽  
Set Up

The new constitution of 2011 and the Organic Law n ° 130-13 related to the Finance law constituted for Morocco a major turning point in the modernization’s path of the public administration. A much desired objective, that can only be achieved by the dissemination within public administrations of a set of management principles and techniques allowing Morocco to set up an effective and efficient management of administrative affairs. The same goes for the advent of currents that promote the application of the principles of good governance and new public management, through the adoption of management standards and practices borrowed from the private sector. According to this logic, Moroccan public administrations have become aware of the importance of adopting internal audit as a mean to improvt their performance.

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