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2021 ◽  
pp. 009539972110653
Author(s):  
Ching Leong ◽  
Michael Howlett

Policy failures are often assumed to be unintentional and anomalous events about which well-intentioned governments can learn why they occurred and how they can be corrected. These assumptions color many of the results from contemporary studies of policy learning which remain optimistic that ongoing policy problems can be resolved through technical learning and lesson drawing from comparative case studies. Government intentions may not be solely oriented toward the creation of public value and publics may not abide by government wishes, however, and studies of policy learning need to take these “darksides” of policy-making more seriously if the risks of policy failure are to be mitigated.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Andrews

As with all public policy work, education policies are demanding. Policy workers need to ‘know’ a lot—about the problems they are addressing, the people who need to be engaged, the promises they can make in response, the context they are working in, and the processes they will follow to implement. Most policy workers answer questions about such issues within the structures of plan and control processes used to devise budgets and projects. These structures limit their knowledge gathering, organization and sense-making activities to up-front planning activities, and even though sophisticated tools like Theories of Change suggest planners ‘know’ all that is needed for policy success, they often do not. Policies are often fraught with ‘unknowns’ that cannot be captured in passive planning processes and thus repeatedly undermine even the best laid plans. Through a novel strategy that asks how much one knows about the answers to 25 essential policy questions, and an application to recent education policy interventions in Mozambique, this paper shows that it is possible to get real about unknowns in policy work. Just recognizing these unknowns exist—and understanding why they do and what kind of challenge they pose to policy workers—can help promote a more modest and realistic approach to doing complex policy work.


Author(s):  
Stephen Peckham ◽  
Bob Hudson ◽  
David Hunter ◽  
Sam Redgate

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
Yacob Noho Nani

Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mendeskripsikan peran komunikasi dalam implementasi kebijakan peningkatan perluasan askses pendidikan secara merata terutama dalam pencapaian sasaran-sasaran kebijakan secara efektif. Implementasi kebijakan memerlukan metode-metode yang dijalankan dalam komunikasi yang efektif dalam perilaku birokrasi. Lokus penelitian dilaksanakan pada Dinas Pendidikan Kabupaten Gorontalo Provinsi Gorontalo. Pendekatan penelitian dilakukan melalui metode kualitatif deskriptif dengan informan penelitian adalah seluruh pegawai yang terlibat dalam implementasi kebijakan pada lokus penelitian. Jenis dan sumber data yang digunakan adalah data primer berupa dokumen, foto, gambar, dan data primer berupa hasil wawancara serta hasil-hasil temuan penelitian dan lain sebagainya. Dari hasil penelitian disimpulkan bahwa implementasi kebijakan memerlukan mekanisme dan pendekatan-pendekatan sebagai metode dalam pencapaian keberhasilan atau efektifitas kebijakan. Metode-metode atau pendekatan-pendekatan tersebut hanya dapat dijalankan secara efektif melalui komunikasi yang baik antara bidang kerja, antara atasan dan bawahan, antara birokrasi dan masyarakat penerima layanan pendidikan, dan komunikasi antara birokrasi dan kemitraan masyarakat. This study was conducted to describe the role of communication in the implementation of policies to increase the expansion of access to education evenly, especially in achieving policy goals effectively. Policy implementation requires methods that are carried out in effective communication in bureaucratic behavior. The research locus was carried out at the Gorontalo District Education Office, Gorontalo Province. The research approach was carried out through descriptive qualitative methods with research informants being all employees involved in implementing policies at the research locus. The types and sources of data used are primary data in the form of documents, photos, pictures, and primary data in the form of interviews and research findings and so on. From the results of the study, it is concluded that policy implementation requires mechanisms and approaches as methods in achieving policy success or effectiveness. These methods or approaches can only be carried out effectively through good communication between the fields of work, between superiors and subordinates, between the bureaucracy and the community receiving education services, and communication between the bureaucracy and community partnerships.


2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-298
Author(s):  
Dana McQuestin ◽  
Joseph Drew ◽  
Masato Miyazaki

Deteriorating financial sustainability of local governments internationally has resulted in increased implementation of structural reform programs as a potential solution. However, the lack of a coherent framework to evaluate policy success has resulted in a myriad of approaches being applied by scholars, sometimes with conflicting results. This inconsistency is problematic given the importance of ex post analyses to the learning process, needed to ensure better decision-making and more efficacious interventions in the future. To address this gap in the literature, we employed the policy success framework along with a number of difference-in-difference analyses to assess the impact of amalgamation following a recent large-scale program. Moreover, in cognisance of the policy success literature, we also introduced a new innovation whereby we conducted empirical estimations on the disaggregated elements of total expenditure. We conclude with an enumeration of important lessons for policymaking and scholarly analysis.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 382-390
Author(s):  
Faisal Nomaini ◽  
Muhammad Husni Thamrin ◽  
Oemar Madri Bafadhal

Practitioners and academics are faced with problems about why public policy fails to achieve its goals and is met with resistance from the public. This then led to the birth of an evidence-based policy (EBP) concept that is trusted and has been proven to increase policy success. Unfortunately, this concept has not yet reached the village government level. Therefore, this community service aims to socialize this concept and put it into practice by taking a case study on the environmental resilience index as one of the compilations of the village developing index (IDM). We took a case study in Desa Lorok, Kecamatan Indralaya Utara, Kabupaten Ogan Ilir for several reasons, such as governance and their readiness to accept this new concept. This community service is a model for implementing EBP by the needs and characteristics of the community because it is formulated jointly between us as academics and the community. Another result is policy recommendations for increasing environmental resilience by focusing on the criteria composing the index.


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