Service Selection Attributes of the Hospital Companion Focusing on the National Policy Design Task of Gwangsan-gu Office in Gwangju Metropolitan City

Worldwide, active aging policy calls for greater participation of senior citizens in the social, economic, and political realms. Despite emerging evidence of initiatives engaging senior citizens in social activities, little is known about the use of participatory approaches in the design and/or implementation of policies that matter to older citizens. This article identifies initiatives facilitating the civic participation of older people in policy-making in European Union member and associate states, drawing on a review of the literature, consultation of national policy experts, and exemplary case studies. Four main patterns of senior civic participation are identified: adopting consultative or co-decisional participatory approaches in policy design or policy implementation. The four are represented to varying degrees at different geographical levels (national, regional, local), with different actor configurations (appointed, elected/nominated, corporate representation), and with varying degree of institutionalization (temporary/permanent). Case studies illustrate approaches taken to enhance the quality and effectiveness of public services for senior citizens. Future research should strengthen this line of enquiry to cast further light on conditions facilitating the civic participation of senior citizens.

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RETHINKING ENVIRONMENTAL FEDERALISM IN A WARMING WORLD

Climate Change Economics ◽

10.1142/s2010007812500182 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 03 (04) ◽

pp. 1250018 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

WILLIAM M. SHOBE ◽

DALLAS BURTRAW

Keyword(s):

Policy Design ◽

Climate Change Policy ◽

National Policy ◽

Climate Policies ◽

Change Policy ◽

Unitary Model ◽

Effective Policy ◽

Pass Through ◽

Warming World ◽

Federal Structure

Climate change policy analysis has focused almost exclusively on national policy and even on harmonizing climate policies across countries, implicitly assuming that harmonization of climate policies at the subnational level would be mandated or guaranteed. We argue that the design and implementation of climate policy in a federal union will diverge in important ways from policy design in a unitary government. National climate policies built on the assumption of a unitary model of governance are unlikely to achieve the expected outcome because of interactions with policy choices made at the subnational level. In a federal system, the information and incentives generated by a national policy must pass through various levels of subnational fiscal and regulatory policy. Effective policy design must recognize both the constraints and the opportunities presented by a federal structure of government. Furthermore, policies that take advantage of the federal structure of government can improve climate governance outcomes.

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Local Policy Experimentation, Social Learning, and Development of Rural Pension Provision in China

Pacific Affairs ◽

10.5509/2020932353 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 93 (2) ◽

pp. 353-377

Author(s):

Ting Huang

Keyword(s):

Social Learning ◽

Local Governments ◽

Policy Design ◽

Pension System ◽

National Policy ◽

Shaanxi Province ◽

Local Policy ◽

Rural Residents ◽

Cumulative Impact ◽

Policy Experimentation

The rural pension system, co-financed by rural residents' contributions and government subsidies, is a remarkable institutional innovation in China. To better understand the establishment and policy design of this system, this article studies the local experimentation of (partly) government-funded new rural pension schemes prior to the national policy guideline issued in 2009. The focus is on the role of social learning as a crucial driving force in this process. Through a process tracing based on in-depth interviews in Daxing of Beijing and Baoji of Shaanxi Province, this article illustrates how local governments struggled to find suitable financing models for rural pensions, and relied primarily on hands-on experimentation and experiences. During the mobilization of participation in the schemes, the repeated and constant interactions between local officials and rural residents promoted a form of mutual learning that contributed to local policy adaptation and rural residents' internalization of the value and basic rules of contributory pension provision. The local experience had a cumulative impact on the ideational reorientation of the central officials regarding the state's financial role in provision. Specifically, the financing model in Baoji created new options that facilitated the reconciliation of a set of different concerns and objectives at the centre, notably fiscal affordability, wide coverage, and modest managerial burden, which, this article argues, was the major reason for the incorporation of this model into the national policy. The article concludes by discussing the implications of the establishment of the rural pension system and its provisions on rural state-society relations in China.

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Participatory statistics, local decision-making, and national policy design: Ubudehe community planning in Rwanda

Who Counts? ◽

10.3362/9781780447711.004 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 49-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Ashish Shah

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Policy Design ◽

National Policy ◽

Community Planning ◽

Local Decision ◽

Local Decision Making

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Challenges of prostitution policy

10.1332/policypress/9781447324249.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Hendrik Wagenaar ◽

Helga Amesberger ◽

Sietske Altink

Keyword(s):

Immigration Policy ◽

Policy Making ◽

Policy Design ◽

National Policy ◽

Symbolic Politics ◽

Local Policy ◽

Prostitution Policy ◽

Domain Specific ◽

Policy Goals ◽

Academic Policy

All public policy faces general and domain-specific challenges. General challenges are key tasks, such as mobilising support for an agenda, or transforming policy goals into policy design, that need to be adhered to to realize a policy. In addition we distinguish five domain-specific challenges in prostitution. These are: The pervasive stigma and the urge to control and restrict prostitution that follows from that. Prostitution is morality politics, which results in an ideologically charged, emotive debate about prostitution and a tendency toward symbolic politics. Prostitution policy gets mixed up with immigration policy. Precise, reliable data on prostitution are generally unavailable. And, local policy making is essential for understanding the process and outcomes of prostitution policy. Local policy often deviates from, and is more repressive than national policy making. In our analysis we use concepts and theories of the policymaking process as formulated in the academic policy literature. But above all, by putting the domain-specific challenges central in describing and analysing prostitution policy, we consistently reason from the perspective of the elected official and public administrator.

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Don't Toss Coins in Garbage Cans: A Prologue to Policy Design

Journal of Public Policy ◽

10.1017/s0143814x00007510 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. 345-367 ◽

Cited By ~ 52

Author(s):

John S. Dryzek

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Policy Analysis ◽

Policy Process ◽

Policy Making ◽

Social Problems ◽

Policy Design ◽

Design Task ◽

Effective Policy ◽

Level Of Difficulty

ABSTRACTThreats to effective policy-making arising from ubiquitous circumstances of complexity and uncertainty are often taken as reasons to eschew both the attacking of social problems through public policy and cogitation, such as policy analysis, in the policy process. It is suggested here that, as complexity and uncertainty increase, more cogitation is required, not less; but it is crucial that cogitation be of the appropriate sort. Greater use should be made of policy design, as opposed to methods emphasising selection among prespecified alternatives. The required design task varies with the level of difficulty – defined by complexity, uncertainty, and lack of feedback – in any case at hand. A taxonomy of levels of difficulty is developed, together with a preliminary outline of the design task required at each level.

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Wellbeing assessment yardstick

Advances in Methodology and Statistics ◽

10.51936/gleo6116 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Irina Pavlova ◽

Ilya Gumennikov ◽

Evgeny Monastyrny ◽

Elena Golubeva

Keyword(s):

Policy Development ◽

Elderly Population ◽

Policy Design ◽

Research Work ◽

Composite Index ◽

National Policy ◽

The Elderly ◽

Russian Regions ◽

Regional Environment ◽

Federal Districts

Although Russia manifests some dynamics in its national policy on ageing, it still lacks comprehensive tools for the older generation wellbeing assessment both on national and regional levels. This research work is an ongoing project aimed at the development of the composite index (composite indicator) to assess the elderly population wellbeing in Russia for cross-regional comparison to equip Russian policy-makers with an essential tool and relevant reliable data to facilitate the decision-making and policy design at national, regional and local levels. The paper discusses the possibility of selecting relevant data from the pool of the official state statistics indicators to assess the elderly generation's wellbeing in 85 regions of the Russian Federation by four index domains (economic, social, health and regional environment dimensions). Due to a high geographical and territorial heterogeneity, this index can be advised to be adopted as a potential tool to monitor wellbeing across Russian regions with the focus on policy development for macro-regions. This grouping of regions can minimize transaction costs of bargaining on behalf of the 85 regions while developing national policies and strategies. The paper employs the Russian Elderly Wellbeing Index (REWI) to compare calculation results for 2014 and 2016 as well as addresses the issue of elderly population wellbeing analysis on the meso level in the context of federal districts. The authors run cluster analysis for the REWI indicators to compare clusters of Russian regions and federal districts.

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Restorative justice and legal culture

Criminology & Criminal Justice ◽

10.1177/1748895818796549 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 57-75 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alejandra Díaz Gude ◽

Iván Navarro Papic

Keyword(s):

Restorative Justice ◽

Policy Design ◽

Common Law ◽

Civil Law ◽

National Policy ◽

Legal Culture ◽

Theoretical Contribution ◽

Political Tradition ◽

Practical Implications

This article explores the question of how to expand restorative justice as a national policy in a country underrepresented by the literature. We maintain that considering legal culture is essential. We identify restorative justice traditions that are characteristic of civil law and common law legal systems, respectively, and compare them with a case study belonging to the former system. We argue that restorative justice practices are shaped by the legal culture, political tradition and criminal justice identity of the system where they develop. We suggest an approach to transferring restorative justice practices based on comparative criminology, restorative justice traditions and legal culture, making a theoretical contribution to the field, as well as having practical implications at the level of public policy design.

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