The idea of policy design: Intention, process, outcome, meaning and validity

Colebatch, H. K.

doi:10.1177/0952076717709525

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“…These three questions recognise that while any design process aims to be instrumentally oriented (i.e. prioritises problem-solving in instrument choicesee Howlett, 2019;Peters, 2018), it is often driven by political priorities and is a highly contingent process (Chindarkar, Howlett, & Ramesh, 2017;Colebatch, 2018). Understanding of trade-offs among policy tools choices are not new of course.…”

Section: Tool Appropriatenessmentioning

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Assessing health reform: studying tool appropriateness & critical capacities

Bali

Ramesh

2019

Policy and Society

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The past two decades have witnessed unprecedented policy effort to improve access to medical services and strengthen financial protection from catastrophic healthcare expenditure. Despite billions of dollars in health spending, manyespecially across the developing worldcontinue to remain vulnerable to financial impoverishment. What accounts for this poor performance? To respond to this question, we turn to the design literature in public policy, which emphasises the role of policy tools or combination of tools in addressing a social problem. In this paper, we focus on two interrelated aspects of the design orientation to explain outcomes: a) the appropriateness of the policy tool and b) the capacity of government agencies. We apply a framework, which integrates vital questions on both these aspects along three common dimensions (analytical, operational and political) to assess healthcare reforms in India and Thailand. The case studies illustrate the importance of both these aspects of the design orientation in explaining outcomes, and show how they are commonly overlooked in the health and social policy literatures, and in reforms underway.

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Section: Tool Appropriatenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing health reform: studying tool appropriateness & critical capacities

Bali

Ramesh

2019

Policy and Society

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“…This figure had slightly increased since 1995 when 11.3% of all parliamentarians were women. (Colebatch, 2018).…”

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Impact of Gender Equality on Socio-Economic Development of Kazakhstan

Mukhamadiyeva¹,

Agumbayeva

Alpysbayev³

et al. 2019

SACI

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Achieving gender equality in the 21st Century is one of the global priorities of every state. The Republic of Kazakhstan on its way of development also focuses on this problem, because gender equality is the basis for the economic and social development of the state. International organisations prepare reports reflecting indices (gender gap index, gender inequality index, gender development index and others) which characterise the state of equality between men and women in different countries. It was established that Kazakhstan had practically reached gender equality at the stage of education. Even the first steps towards market reforms showed the unequal impact of the socioeconomic transformation on the position of men and women in society. The transition to the market was followed, on the one hand, by the curtailment of social programmes and the social sphere, and on the other hand, by an increase of labour force requirements. Under these conditions, women who traditionally bear family care, were more disadvantaged than men, both in the family and in the workplace. Democratic reforms in the post-Soviet societies created the conditions for more active participation of women in the political and economic life of the country, securing them more rights and freedoms, yet there has been a sharp deterioration in the status of women, an increase of female unemployment, the feminisation of poverty, the displacement of women in the informal economy and increase of domestic labour. Determined that the Gender Gap Index affects the gross domestic product per capita which is one of the indicators characterising the economic condition of the state. The greater the gender gap index is, the smaller is the inequality between the sexes and the higher GDP per capita is. The article presents a correlation-regression analysis which characterises the interrelation of gender equality indicators with economic indicators.

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“…In the special issue titled “Questioning Policy Design,” Colebatch (), Hoppe (), and Turnbull () posit another perspective on conceptualizing policy design, which could be generally summarized as “praxis” vs. “theory,” with the authors of this special issue arguing for the significance of policymaking practice informing all design activities. Their starting point is that design rarely occurs in a vacuum where prior knowledge, assumptions, and biases do not color the perspectives of the designers involved in the policymaking process.…”

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“…This article begins with the analytical debates in which we situate our contribution-the extant literature on policy design, where a new design orientation is emerging (Howlett & Lejano, 2012;Howlett & Mukherjee, 2014) and receiving strong criticisms concerning its conceptual utility (Colebatch, 2017;Hoppe, 2017;Turnbull, 2017). In this section, we set out more clearly how our three central themes-"policy design," "talent identification and recruitment," and "immigration policy"-relate to one another.…”

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Defining “Talent”: Insights from Management and Migration Literatures for Policy Design

Černá¹,

Chou²

2018

Policy Studies Journal

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Taking the case of defining “talent,” a term that has been widely used but its definitions differ by discipline, organization, policy sector, as well as over time, we demonstrate how the basic definition of a policy subject may affect policy design and the assessment of policy outcomes. We review how “talent” is defined in two sets of literature, talent management and migration studies, and find that definitions fall under one of two categories: binary (“talent” as qualities) or composite (“talent” as a relational concept). The implications of our findings are epistemological and ontological; the findings point to diverse epistemological effects of definitions through developments of indicators, as expected, and they also reveal the policy designers’ ontological starting points. Ontological perspectives are significant because they ultimately determine whether the policy assessments carried out differ in degrees or in kind. In the case of defining “talent,” this means determining which objectives the designers would set (e.g., recruiting vs. cultivating vs. introducing competition), the policy instrumentation for achieving the goals (migration measures vs. education vs. lifelong learning vs. human resource policy), and the type of assessment for measuring policy outcomes (single vs. multiple indicators, qualitative vs. quantitative).

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The idea of policy design: Intention, process, outcome, meaning and validity

Cited by 41 publications

References 43 publications

Assessing health reform: studying tool appropriateness & critical capacities

Assessing health reform: studying tool appropriateness & critical capacities

Impact of Gender Equality on Socio-Economic Development of Kazakhstan

Defining “Talent”: Insights from Management and Migration Literatures for Policy Design

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