Indicators as a Tool for Strengthened Monitoring

2021 ◽  
pp. 108-122
Author(s):  
Emma Lantschner
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The Political ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Political Dialogue ◽  
Outcome Indicators ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Process And Outcome

Chapter 3 is dedicated to a discussion of the concept of indicators, since the use of such an instrument is not uncontroversial. To address critics of the concept, the chapter analyses not only the purposes for which indicators can be used and their related advantages, but also discusses the limitations and pitfalls connected with their use. This chapter also introduces the division into structural, process, and outcome indicators that measure the progress of implementation in different phases of the life cycle of a norm. It further looks at the use that is made (or not made) of indicators in monitoring procedures carried out by the Commission in the pre-accession phase to show that, to date, the concept has been used rather inconsistently. On the basis of the foregoing, it develops criteria for the development of indicators in the area of equality and non-discrimination. The main purpose of these indicators is to support consistent monitoring of the transposition and implementation of the EU non-discrimination acquis. They can, however, also be used as a tool in the political dialogue between the European Commission, civil society actors, and state institutions, as well as by policy makers to analyse the situation in view of evidence-based law and policy making.

scholarly journals Yudisialisasi Politik dan Sikap Menahan Diri: Peran Mahkamah Konstitusi dalam Menguji Undang-Undang

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 473
Author(s):  
Bisariyadi Bisariyadi
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Theoretical Justification ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Aggressive Approach ◽  
Legal Policy ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Executive Discretion ◽  
Judicialization Of Politics

In a review of the constitutionality of law or policy, the Constitutional Court can take an aggressive approach or choose to take self-restraint. Theoretical justification on the Court to change or made policy derived from the judicialization of politics. Global phenomenon indicates the shift of policy-making authority towards the judiciary. Consequently, policy makers shows resistence. Such conditions forced the Court to use a number of strategies to reduce political tensions between state institutions while at the same time the Court still protect the rights of citizens. The Court uses self-restraint approach to examine policies which in realm of legislative or executive discretion. This approach is referred to by the Court as an “open(ed) legal policy”. This study elaborates on the actions carried out by the Indonesian Constitutional Court to test the constitutionality of law or policy, both in the application of the judicialization of politics nor in the judicial restraint approach. In reality, the Court uses both of these approaches on review the constitutionality of law and  policy.

scholarly journals Deliberative Research for Deliberative Policy Making: Creating and Recreating Evidence in Transport Policy

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Murray
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Transport Policy ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Research Utilisation ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Interpretative Research

Despite promotion of evidence-based policy responses, there remains a knowledge gap between policy-makers and academia particularly in transport policy making, which is steeped in positivist traditions. A number of social policy academics have conceptualised research utilisation in relation to particular elements of social policy, but less attention has been paid to the integration of deliberative and interpretative research into transport policy. This article explores this through a study of the journey to school that used mobile and visual methods in an in-depth exploration of this element of everyday life.

scholarly journals Improving Policy Evidence Base for Agricultural Sustainability and Food Security: A Content Analysis of Life Cycle Assessment Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1033 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oriana Gava ◽  
Fabio Bartolini ◽  
Francesca Venturi ◽  
Gianluca Brunori ◽  
Alberto Pardossi
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
System Level ◽  
Agricultural Sustainability ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Assessment Research

Life cycle assessment is a widespread method for measuring and monitoring the environmental impacts of production processes, thereby allowing the comparison of business-as-usual with more ecological scenarios. Life cycle assessment research can support evidence-based policy making by comparing and communicating the environmental impacts of agricultural and food systems, informing about the impact of mitigating interventions and monitoring sectoral progress towards sustainable development goals. This article aims at improving the contribution of science to evidence-based policies for agricultural sustainability and food security, while facilitating further research, by delivering a content-analysis based literature review of life cycle assessment research in agricultural and food economics. Results highlight that demand-side and system-level approaches need further development, as policies need to support redesigned agricultural systems and newly conceived dietary guidelines, which combine environmental protection and health benefits, without reducing productivity. Similarly, more research effort towards consequential life cycle assessment and multidimensional assessment may benefit policy makers by considering the rebound effects associated with the large-scale implementation of impact-mitigating interventions. Promising interventions involve the promotion of waste circularization strategies, which could also improve the profitability of agriculture. For effective policy making towards agricultural sustainability and food security worldwide, countries with the greatest expected population growth and raise of urbanization rates need more attention by researchers.

scholarly journals Why policy needs history (and historians)

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 369-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Berridge
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Time History ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Direct Relevance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Evidence Based Policy ◽  
Fresh Starts ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractPolicy makers like the idea of new initiatives and fresh starts, unencumbered by, even actively overthrowing, what has been done in the past. At the same time, history can be pigeonholed as fusty and antiquarian, dealing with long past events of no relevance to the present. Academic historians are sometimes bound up in their own worlds. The debates central to academe may have little direct relevance to the immediate concerns of policy making. The paper argues that history, as the evidence-based discipline par excellence, is as relevant as other approaches to evidence-based policy making. Case studies can show us the nature of that relevance. How to achieve influence for history also needs discussion. The relationship is not straightforward and will vary according to time and place. History is an interpretative discipline, not just a collection of ‘facts’. The paper discusses how historians work and why it is important for policy makers to engage, not just with history, but with historians as well. Historians too need to think about the value of bringing their analysis into policy.

scholarly journals INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN THEIR EXISTENCE OF IN EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY MAKING BY GOVERNMENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1344-1348
Author(s):  
Revency Vania Rugebregt ◽  
M.J. Saptenno ◽  
J. Tjiptabudy
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Vulnerable Group ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Evidence Based Policy ◽  
Laws And Regulations

Indigenous Peoples are a problem that is relatively unknown to the wider community because they are located in remote areas, and only certain areas have Indigenous Peoples problems. They are a very vulnerable group in our society and in the country in general. This happens because they lack access to development and even their rights tend to be neglected. Apart from that, the alignment of the constitution with them in the laws and regulations is not in line with the practice in the field. This research uses the normative research method where the conceptual and statutory approaches are used, but also the legal materials that are obtained in the field will also be input in this research. It is hoped that this research can contribute ideas to policy makers so that it becomes a recommendation for making policies based on conditions in the field or evidence (evidence-based policies).

scholarly journals Digital Transformations in Planning: An Australian Context

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Kok Ming Ng ◽  
Christopher Pettit
Keyword(s):  
Development Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Data Governance ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
Planning Institute ◽  
Urban Problems

Australia is currently undergoing sweeping changes in transforming and digitizing its planning and development sectors. However, numerous challenges still exist in consolidating and making accessible essential data in the country to effect evidence-based development policy-making. This has been argued to have tangible consequences in formulating solutions to urban problems, such as housing delivery, and driving new urban innovations that are data-focused. In this chapter, we discuss a new urban data governance model in the context of the development of a novel single housing data and analytics platform, which has been formulated based on Australia’s current issues on data disparity, ownership, and interoperability. This platform, the Australian Housing Data Analytics Platform, seeks provide researchers with an integrated data repository and transparent analytical capabilities that hopes to drive collaboration, public participation, and data democratization across the country. In line with PlanTech principles developed through the Australian Planning Institute, this chapter describes how data in Australia can be made as a public good and integral commodity for policy-makers for the better planning for our cities.

Political Action, Error and Failure: The Epistemological Limits of Complexity

2011 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Little
Keyword(s):  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Complex Terrain ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Risk Averse ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Epistemological Obstacles

The trend in government and public policy towards evidence-based policy making has recently been the subject of criticism from authors such as Ian Sanderson who argue that the insights of complexity theory undermine the claims of evidence that these forms of policy design advocate. While taking on board the primary claim of this critique, this article examines the contribution of complexity theory in more detail to suggest that the epistemological obstacles that complexity science identifies also challenge the kind of pragmatic, deliberative model that Sanderson prefers. Instead, it examines the work of Michael Freeden on failure and Michel Foucault on error to demonstrate the ways in which approaches that are less wedded to epistemological certainty can enable policy makers to think more creatively about the complex terrain they must navigate and develop more innovative and less risk-averse forms of political action.

Following Suit or Falling Behind? A Comparative Analysis of Think Tanks in Canada and the United States

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 525-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald E. Abelson ◽  
Christine M. Carberry
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
The United States ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
The Political ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Parliamentary Systems ◽  
Economic Barriers

AbstractPolicy institutes, or think tanks, have become increasingly visible on the political landscape. However, their policy role has varied in different countries. This article seeks to explain why, compared to think tanks in the United States, Canadian institutes have maintained a relatively modest presence in the policy-making community. Although many Canadian think tanks have made concerted efforts to replicate the strategies of their American counterparts, they have had far less success employing them in an effective and meaningful manner. While many American think tanks have both the resources and the opportunities to convey ideas to policy makers, Canadian organizations must overcome institutional, cultural and economic barriers before they can play a decisive role in policy-making circles. This article also makes reference to the experiences of think tanks in some parliamentary systems, notably Great Britain, to demonstrate that although these barriers are formidable and need to be addressed in some detail, they are not insurmountable.

Policy analysis in the Mexican federal government

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo M. Cejudo
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Legislative Oversight ◽  
Administrative Framework

By the end of the 20th century, policy making in the Mexican federal government was aligned to the authoritarian, closed and hierarchical logic of the political regime and its bureaucratic apparatus. Over the span of a few years, pluralism and competition have transformed the political regime and its bureaucracy. This chapter analyzes how policy analysis in the Mexican federal government has been shaped by recent political and administrative developments derived from democratization. After a brief analysis of policymaking under authoritarianism, it is discussed how policy analysis has changed according to the new nature of the political regime, with a relatively more open policymaking process and more legislative oversight. The author examines the development of a monitoring and evaluation system and shows how it has introduced a results-oriented, evidence-based, problem-solving approach to policy analysis. This new approach is contrasted with the normative and administrative framework guided by the logic of planning with which it has to compete.

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