<i>Civil society strategy</i>: a policy review

Bennett, Ellen; Coule, Tracey M.; Damm, Christopher; Dayson, Christopher; Dean, Jon; Macmillan, Rob

doi:10.1332/204080519x15617330887624

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“…It may be that the COVID pandemic serves to reignite policy debates about the relationship between CSOs and the state in England following the 'post-Big Society' period (2015-19) which was something of a policy vacuum in this regard. The 2018 Civil Society Strategy presented little in the way of new funding or major policies and in some ways sought to dilute the notion of a sector distinct from government and private business (Bennett et al, 2019), whilst a clear vision for the future of civil society was absent from the 2019 General Election Manifestos of both main Westminster parties (Damm and Dayson, 2019). Certainly the Kruger Review (2020) implies a renewed focus from central government, on civil society specifically and 'communities' in a more general sense, and suggests that the state may wish to rebuild (national) and build-on (local) these relationships in its response to the pandemic.…”

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Re-making state-civil society relationships during the COVID 19 pandemic? An English perspective

Dayson¹,

Damm²

2020

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A bstract State and civil society have had a complicated and intertwined relationship for many years and this has arguably never been more evident than during the COVID 19 pandemic. This review article discusses how this relationship played out locally and nationally during the early months of the pandemic from an English perspective to consider whether we have witnessed an extension of pre-existing roles or a re-making of new ones. At a national level we identify the exacerbation of pre-existing adversarial relationships focussed on the scale and necessity of the government's financial support package for civil society organisations (CSOs). At the local level we observe an extension of prior complementary relationships, with CSOs further embedded in local systems of decision making, coordination and service provision. We also identify a newly visible and increasingly complementary local role for previously supplementary community-led CSOs responding to the needs of vulnerable citizens. It is unclear if the next phase of the pandemic will affect these relationships yet further, or whether these configurations will be preserved following the COVID-19 crisis, but it seems certain that the crisis will have a lasting effect on national and local state-civil society interactions in one way or another.

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Re-making state-civil society relationships during the COVID 19 pandemic? An English perspective

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2020

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“…Thus, policy reading is more as a discourse of ideas in the public sphere compared with the contestation of actors in the civil society, the state, and the market/private. This article will elaborate that policy actually does not merely arise from the relationship between civil society and the state (Bennett et al, 2019). Rather, beyond that actually, there is a more important thing and moving both, namely the same idea in designing policy.…”

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Mainstreaming Idea: Alternative Reading of State and Civil Society Relation in Policy Making

Seftyono¹,

Santoso

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Scientific climate as the unity of ideas and the activator of an organization is suspected to be a form of civil society leadership. It moves from the personification of actors to the debate of ideas. Civil society as a political movement is a study that still being debated because of its position when faced with the state and policy. This article provides a different review, by carrying out the phenomenon of research-based policy in Indonesia. Through qualitative data tracking, it was shown that some civil society did not put themselves in these two positions, namely as the opponent or the partner for the government. Furthermore, the reality showed that both of them, in this case civil society and the state were more concerned with the realization of their ideas, the openness, and the professionalism of publications to support policy making. More specifically, the existence of openness and implementation of science and information as a collaborative arena appeared from the interaction of the National Development Planning Agency and Knowledge Sector Initiative which had been running since 2011 in building the ecosystem of Research-Based Policy. Then, it was followed by the presence of Open Science community in 2017 and the establishment of National Research and Innovation Agency in 2019. Therefore, both collaborations encouraged the creation of a data openness climate in policy making. This was a general 'norm', but it did not work fully. Therefore, this article provides a space that the opportunities to strengthen the ecosystem of research-based policy can be optimized by setting out the idea approach and makes the civil society goes beyond the institutional barrier.

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“…More recently, the Civil Society Strategy (HM Government, 2018) makes a commitment to collaborative commissioning arrangements, alongside encouraging local authorities to maximise social value within their commissioning processes. The potential for more collaborative commissioning arrangements has been largely welcomed, however in reality without committed funding or clear accountability the strategy remains more of an idea than a reality (Bennett et al, 2019).…”

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The commissioner’s perspective: the lived realities of commissioning children’s preventative services in England and the role of discretion

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2019

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Commissioning remains the dominant process by which England’s state and third sector financial relationships are managed, attracting much criticism and debate. In response, the Civil Society Strategy (HM Government 2018) has called for a renewed focus on collaborative commissioning arrangements. However, the absence of much comment on commissioners suggests we have not paid enough attention to the role of the individuals who manage these processes. Semi-structured interviews with 15 commissioners, responsible for children’s preventative services, provide new empirical evidence exploring commissioners’ lived experiences. Drawing on the notion of vertical discretion, which is an individual’s freedom from external control, versus horizontal discretion, which is an individual’s freedom for decision making, this article explores the space for commissioners’ individual discretion within the commissioning process. Findings highlight that greater consideration of the role discretion has in commissioning processes can add some insight into how more collaborative commissioning arrangements may be achieved at a local level.

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Civil society strategy: a policy review

Cited by 9 publications

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Re-making state-civil society relationships during the COVID 19 pandemic? An English perspective

Re-making state-civil society relationships during the COVID 19 pandemic? An English perspective

Mainstreaming Idea: Alternative Reading of State and Civil Society Relation in Policy Making

The commissioner’s perspective: the lived realities of commissioning children’s preventative services in England and the role of discretion

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