scholarly journals Policy labs: the next frontier of policy design and evaluation?

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karol Olejniczak ◽  
Sylwia Borkowska-Waszak ◽  
Anna Domaradzka-Widła ◽  
Yaerin Park
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Programme Evaluation ◽  
Mechanisms Of Change ◽  
Evaluative Inquiry ◽  
Evaluation Practices ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Potential Benefits

The article explores the potential benefits to public policy of combining traditional evaluative inquiry with insights developed dynamically in policy labs. Twenty leading labs from five continents are critically analysed through a literature review as well as policy and programme evaluation practices, assessing the extent to which the purpose, structures and processes used in policy labs address three challenges: (1) establishing the causality and value of public interventions, (2) explaining mechanisms of change, and (3) utilising research findings in public policy. The article concludes that creating synergies between evaluation inquiry and policy labs can improve the design and implementation of public policy and programmes.

scholarly journals A Content Analysis of Public Policy Design and Implementation in Slovenia: Weighing Strategic and Normative Factors

2021 ◽  
pp. 70-88
Author(s):  
Žiga KOTNIK ◽  
Dalibor STANIMIROVIĆ
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Policy Cycle ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Public ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Strategic Factors ◽  
Normative Factors

"Policy processes are complex systems and require an in-depth and comprehensive analysis. Especially, factors that affect public policy design and implementation, as two important stages of the public policy cycle, have not been sufficiently explored. The aim of the paper is to analyze the relationship between two critical factors that influence the design and implementation of public policies in the case of Slovenia, namely strategic factors and normative factors, and offer a basis for comparison with similar countries. Based on twenty-two structured interviews with prominent public policy experts in Slovenia and content analysis of the responses, the findings reveal that, although strategic factors are identified by the interviewees as the most critical, the role of normative factors is also important and should not be underestimated. For various reasons, in practice, normative factors often turn out to be crucial."

Do Koreans like being nudged? Survey evidence for the contextuality of behavioral public policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Oliver Kasdan
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Behavioral Bias ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Behavioral Biases ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Culture And Development

This study explores the nuances of South Koreans’ approval for nudge policies by replicating a survey conducted in global nudge research, and then extending the analysis and discussion with greater detail about the context. The traditions, culture, and development of Korea have contributed to a distinct behavioral bias profile that must be integrated into approaches for nudge policy design and implementation. This article proposes the qualities of such a profile from the survey results, as well as the prospect that Koreans are more receptive to information nudges that engage analytic reflection. The findings show significantly lower nudge policy approval rates for Koreans in contrast to Americans and other Western countries. This serves to support previous calls for further research about the generalizability of nudge approaches by contributing evidence to the importance of context for identifying and leveraging behavioral biases in the application of policy. The research offers insights into the Korean context that may be used for nudge policies in Korea and other Eastern contexts.

Reconsidering Policy Design: Policies and Publics

1991 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. May
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
The Public ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Political Environments ◽  
Modes Of Thought

ABSTRACTOne of the emerging areas in the public policy literature concerns new modes of thought about the construction and analysis of public policy. This article extends notions about politics within the ‘policy design’ literature by considering the implications of different political environments for policy design and implementation. Two different political environments – policies with and without publics – that form ends of a continuum of policy publics are discussed. A contrast is drawn between these two polar political environments with respect to differing policy design and implementation challenges, as well as with respect to differing opportunities for policy learning.

scholarly journals AGI Safety Literature Review

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Everitt ◽  
Gary Lea ◽  
Marcus Hutter
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
General Intelligence ◽  
Major Event ◽  
Limited Knowledge ◽  
Safety Concerns ◽  
Artificial General Intelligence ◽  
Potential Benefits

The development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) promises to be a major event. Along with its many potential benefits, it also raises serious safety concerns. The intention of this paper is to provide an easily accessible and up-to-date collection of references for the emerging field of AGI safety. A significant number of safety problems for AGI have been identified. We list these, and survey recent research on solving them. We also cover works on how best to think of AGI from the limited knowledge we have today, predictions for when AGI will first be created, and what will happen after its creation. Finally, we review the current public policy on AGI.

scholarly journals Public Policy Design and Implementation in Slovenia

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 9-38
Author(s):  
Jernej Mencinger ◽  
Polonca Kovač ◽  
Tina Jukić ◽  
Mirko Vintar
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Individual Country ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Policy Domain ◽  
Post Evaluation ◽  
Coherent Integration ◽  
Ex Post

Public policy design and implementation is a complex process, and so decision makers try to monitor all of the policy lifecycle stages in a particular policy domain. However, the question of coherent integration of various policy activities arises, including agenda-setting, ex-ante evaluation, formulation, decision-making, implementation, ex-post evaluation of individual policies, sector-specific ones, and even horizontal ones. Therefore, it is important to investigate and understand the reasons why an individual country, such as Slovenia, does not exploit all potential aspects of carrying out policy activities in a systematic and coherent manner. This article explores and analyzes Slovenian practice in policy design based on an in-depth empirical study among key public policyholders and decision makers. Furthermore, the authors identify the key success factors that facilitate or inhibit the development and progress of public policies, programs, and projects (PPPP) in Slovenia. The key findings indicate a particular lack of a professional policy unit to monitor the process holistically and the absence of ex-post evaluation. A need for a systemic solution in public policy design is established, which would merge different authorities’ efforts, epistemic communities, and the public in developing a structural multilevel model for good public governance.

Religion and Religiosity: A Path to War or Peace

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-69
Author(s):  
Ghada Awada
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Behavioral Model ◽  
Religious Violence ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Humanistic Approach ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Divine Origin

Abstract The study was set to examine the differences between religion and religiosity and to explore how communities can be protected against religious violence. The study also intended to investigate the motives and the effect that religious violence has had throughout history. The study employed the qualitative research method whereby the researcher carried out a meta-analysis synthesis of different research findings to make conclusions and implications that could answer the study questions. Using the literature review they conducted, the researchers carried out data collection. As such, the researcher employed the bottom-up approach to identify the problem and the questions along with the investigation framework of what they decided to explore. The findings of the study revealed that religious backgrounds should be the cornerstone to realize the diff erence between religion and religiosity. Religion is of divine origin whereas religiosity is specifically a humanistic approach and a behavioral model. The religious violence phenomenon is formed by interlocking factors such as the interpretation of religious texts which clearly adopt thoughts and heritage full of violence camouflaged by religion. It is recommended that governments use a strong strategy employing the educational system, summits and dialogs to successfully overcome religious violence. The summits on religion should result in starting a dialog that ensures acceptance of the different religions.

Pre-Registration in the Undergraduate Dissertation: A Critical Discussion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Pownall
Keyword(s):  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Perceived Barriers ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Statistics Anxiety ◽  
Questionable Research Practices ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Data Analysis Plan

Currently under review at Psychology Teaching Review. Over recent years, Psychology has become increasingly concerned with reproducibility and replicability of research findings (Munafò et al., 2017). One method of ensuring that research is hypothesis driven, as opposed to data driven, is the process of publicly pre-registering a study’s hypotheses, data analysis plan, and procedure prior to data collection (Nosek, Ebersole, DeHaven, & Mellor, 2018). This paper discusses the potential benefits of introducing pre-registration to the undergraduate dissertation. The utility of pre-registration as a pedagogic practice within dissertation supervision is also critically appraised, with reference to open science literature. Here, it is proposed that encouraging pre-registration of undergraduate dissertation work may alleviate some pedagogic challenges, such as statistics anxiety, questionable research practices, and research clarity and structure. Perceived barriers, such as time and resource constraints, are also discussed.

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