New local cultural policy evaluation methods in the Netherlands: status and perspectives

Hoogen, Quirijn Lennert van den

doi:10.1080/10286632.2013.871005

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“…This under‐emphasis on evaluation is considered to be at least partly because of lack of capacity (Gattenhof, ). These findings accord with reports from the USA (Markusen & Gadwa, ) and Europe (Van den Hoogan, ) that outcomes of cultural development plans often not clearly identified.…”

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Outcome‐focussed planning in Australian local government: How council plans and cultural development plans measure up

Uppal

Dunphy

2019

Aust J Public Adm

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Contemporary public policy increasingly emphasises a focus on outcomes, the difference that occurs in the lives of citizens from policy and activity of government. Other contemporary imperatives for effective planning include: recognition of the values of the community whom plans serve, direction towards goals and objectives, utilisation of evidence, articulation of theories of change that underpin planning and responsiveness to evaluation. This article reports a desk‐based research project to assess how local government planning documents meet these imperatives. Two documents are examined for 67 councils across Australia: the major strategic document, council plan or other‐named document and the cultural development plan (CDP) or other‐named document that directs staff and investment aimed at cultural enrichment of the LGA. Findings indicate that the majority of councils’ documents appeared only concordant with one or two of these planning imperatives. No plan addressed more than three. Overall, council plans and cultural development plans did not clearly indicate their responsiveness to values of their communities, nor include objectives that formed measurable steps towards goals or formally refer to the use of evidence in decision‐making. No plans included theories of change to underpin decision‐making. This analysis indicates clear areas of improvement for planning for local governance.

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“…Without evidence from research or previous practice knowledge to inform such choices, the potential for achieving desired outcomes is not maximised (Rousseau, ). Despite its importance, there are indications that evidence is under‐utilised in planning (Ven den Hoogan, ).…”

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Outcome‐focussed planning in Australian local government: How council plans and cultural development plans measure up

Uppal

Dunphy

2019

Aust J Public Adm

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“…Both the rationalism perspective of policy process concerning policy formulation-implementation-supervision and the constructivism perspective of policy logic concerning policy goals-policy tools-policy actors (stakeholders) are traditional dimensions of policy evaluation, but neither of them can effectively reconcile the contradictions between "fact" and "value" evaluation [ 25 , 26 ]. And promoting the mutual complementarity of rationalism and constructivism proves to be better in optimizing the evaluation methods of public policies and upgrading public policy evaluation to be more scientific, objective, fair, and professional.…”

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Effectiveness evaluation of China’s water resource tax reform pilot and path optimization from the perspective of policy field

Yang,

Zhou,

Zhang

2024

PLoS ONE

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The water resource tax reform played an important role in promoting sustainable development in China. Subsequent to the seven-year reform, the effectiveness evaluation of the policy in each pilot area and the exploration of the optimization path directly affected the promotion of water resource tax policy and the improvement of water use efficiency. Therefore, the theoretical framework of the water resource tax policy field was constructed to examine the mechanism of the three subsystems of policy scenario, policy orientation, and policy effect; fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) was then used to evaluate and quantitatively compare the policy implementation effect and policy path in each pilot area, with emphasis put on three policy orientations, i.e., the decision and decomposition effect of policy goals, the selection and im plementation effect of policy tools, and the policy supervision and security effect. As shown by the research results: ① the water resource tax reform had effectively improved the efficiency of water resource utilization in the pilot areas; ② three pilot models of water resource tax policy had been extracted, namely the policy goal and tool-driven model centering on a single dimension of the policy field, the implementation-supervision dual drive model emphasizing the supervision and security effect of the policy, and the three-dimensional policy orientation linkage model that focused on the synergistic effect of the policy field; ③ strong heterogeneity existed in water resource tax policy implementation paths and effects in each pilot area. Accordingly, regional heterogeneity could be considered in the process of reform to construct institutionalized, precise, and differentiated reform implementation methods from the perspective of the policy field.

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“…This approach is problematic in its assumption that expenditure is a measure of value. Such a relationship cannot be assumed (Van Den Hoogen, 2014), with the causal pathway from investment to desired outcome only realised if appropriate activities and processes are undertaken.…”

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Positing a schema of measurable outcomes of cultural engagement

Dunphy

Smithies²,

Uppal³

et al. 2020

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The cultural sector (arts, heritage and library agencies) receives increasing demands to articulate and evaluate outcomes of its work. These demands are challenging because of pervasive conceptions that the intangible nature of cultural activities makes them inherently unmeasurable, while their ‘intrinsic’ properties render them essentially valuable. This article addresses this challenge in positing a schema of measurable cultural outcomes of cultural engagement developed through literature analysis and an iterative Delphi-style stakeholder consultation. The outcomes are as follows: creativity stimulated; aesthetic enrichment experienced; knowledge, ideas or insight gained; diversity of cultural expression appreciated; and sense of belonging to cultural heritage deepened.

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New local cultural policy evaluation methods in the Netherlands: status and perspectives

Cited by 12 publications

References 25 publications

Outcome‐focussed planning in Australian local government: How council plans and cultural development plans measure up

Outcome‐focussed planning in Australian local government: How council plans and cultural development plans measure up

Effectiveness evaluation of China’s water resource tax reform pilot and path optimization from the perspective of policy field

Positing a schema of measurable outcomes of cultural engagement

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