Public Policy Design and Implementation in Slovenia

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.

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

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences ◽

10.24193/tras.64e.4 ◽

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."

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

Rationality and Society ◽

10.1177/1043463120937832 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 313-333 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

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.

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Reconsidering Policy Design: Policies and Publics

Journal of Public Policy ◽

10.1017/s0143814x0000619x ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 187-206 ◽

Cited By ~ 95

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.

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Public policy instrument evaluation in service of enabling grand strategy discourse – Case of Horizon 2020 key indicators

Research in Social Change ◽

10.2478/rsc-2019-0011 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 97-121

Author(s):

Alenka Pandiloska Jurak

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Policy Instrument ◽

The European Union ◽

Horizon 2020 ◽

Post Evaluation ◽

Ex Post ◽

Europe 2020 ◽

Cultural Political Economy ◽

Relevant Social Groups ◽

Key Indicators

Abstract The purpose of the article is to illustrate the problem of public policy evaluation in regards to the availability of the information. By that, we want to warn about the issue of a disabled discourse of relevant social groups and institutions in the European Union. For this article, we evaluate public policy instrument H2020. The evaluation covers the availability of the data, that should enable interim and ex-post evaluation. The article offers a soulution to the emerging issue. Through the prism of Cultural political economy, the evaluation results also indicate the issue of Europe 2020 instruments retention. Consistency and transparency are not needed only throughout the different policies and strategy goals but also throughout their retention to assure the set goals.

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Bringing Evaluation into the Policy Cycle

European Journal of Risk Regulation ◽

10.1017/s1867299x00004281 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 57-67 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Emanuela Bozzini ◽

Jo Hunt

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Evaluation Studies ◽

Policy Cycle ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Post Evaluation ◽

Ex Post ◽

Policy Appraisal ◽

Policy Work ◽

Legislative Reforms

This contribution seeks to overcome the isolation of evaluation studies fromthe broader field of public policy analysis. Using as a case study the hybrid regulatory tool of cross compliance under the Common Agricultural Policy, the article charts the ongoing incorporation of ex ante and ex post evaluation processes over a ten year period, during which three major legislative reforms were undertaken. Anchoring its approach in the public policy work of Kingdon, the article emphasises the significance of the plurality of actors involved in the evaluation processes, the importance of timing, as well as the challenge to models of policy processes based on assumptions of rational linearity. In particular, the article demonstrates how the dis–ordering which may be observed in the stages of the policy process may equally be seen in the stages of policy appraisal. A particular focus is placed on the way in which objectives and indicators are defined and re–defined over time. The case study demonstrates that through policy appraisal, policy makers may learn what is, and what is not capable of being measured, which feeds back into the re–setting of objectives.

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Public Policy and Constitutional Rights in Times of Crisis

Canadian Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s0008423920000256 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 299-303 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Emmett Macfarlane

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Legal Rights ◽

Constitutional Rights ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Design And Implementation ◽

Policy Responses ◽

Equality Rights ◽

Division Of Powers ◽

The Relationship

Federal and provincial policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic raise a host of constitutional issues that decision makers must pay heed to or risk serious violations of individual rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This research note will examine a number of policy challenges as they relate to mobility rights (s. 6), legal rights (ss. 7 through 14), and equality rights (s. 15) and will articulate the factors that policy makers should consider in design and implementation. Other important constitutional questions, such as those relating to the division of powers, emergency powers and the relationship between the executive and Parliament, have also emerged in Canada but are beyond the scope of this note.

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The role of information systems in public policy design and implementation: Comment on the paper by wheat

Systems Research and Behavioral Science ◽

10.1002/sres.1040 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 27 (4) ◽

pp. 443-445

Author(s):

Jim Duggan

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Information Systems ◽

Policy Design ◽

Design And Implementation ◽

Role Of Information

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Future Policy Implementation

Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development - Handbook of Research on Advanced ICT Integration for Governance and Policy Modeling ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-6236-0.ch017 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 329-344

Author(s):

Ana Guseva ◽

Marjan Gusev ◽

Biljana Veselinovska

Keyword(s):

Policy Implementation ◽

Optimization Model ◽

Policy Design ◽

Complexity Science ◽

Decision Makers ◽

New Governance ◽

Design And Implementation ◽

Governance Model ◽

Future Policy ◽

The City

This chapter presents a comprehensive new governance model to support the policy design and implementation lifecycle. The innovations are driven by the demand of citizens and political decision makers to support the policy domains in urban regions with appropriate ICT technologies. It will target domains such as sustainably development, urban planning, and more specifically, fostering bicycle inter-modality in the city of Skopje. The scientific approach is based on complexity science. The proposed optimization model is aimed to explore barriers and facilitators to using bicycles as a transport means in Skopje, considering bicycle riding for transport on private bicycles, and different share schemes.

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

Policy & Politics ◽

10.1332/030557319x15579230420108 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 89-110 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

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.

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