scholarly journals Strategic policy committees: Talking shops or active participants in local policy development?

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 151-160
Author(s):  
Fintan Phelan
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Strategic Policy

scholarly journals Public Administration and Governance for the SDGs: Navigating between Change and Stability

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5914
Author(s):  
Louis Meuleman
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Governance Reform ◽  
Policy Coherence ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Strategic Policy ◽  
Research And Policy

This article highlights four key reform challenges regarding the quality of public administration and governance (PAG), aimed at increasing ‘SDG-readiness’ at all levels of administration, in a nexus characterized by complexity, volatility, pluriformity and uncertainty. Based on others’ research into how EU Member States institutionalize the implementation of the SDGs, a critical review of SDG-governance approaches, as well as a review paper on the management of the SDGs, it is concluded that that four priority areas could guide research and policy development to accelerate implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Firstly, to recognize that creating an effective public administration and governance is an important strategic policy area. Secondly, to begin with mission-oriented public administration and governance reform for SDG implementation, replacing the efficiency-driven public sector reform of the past decades. Thirdly, to apply culturally sensitive metagovernance to design, define and manage trade-offs and achieving synergies between SDGs and their targets. Fourthly, to start concerted efforts to improve policy coherence with a mindset beyond political, institutional, and mental ‘silos’.

scholarly journals Between the Regulatory State and the Networked Polity: Central-Local Government Relations in Sweden

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Granberg ◽  
Mikael Granberg ◽  
Stig Montin
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Regulatory State ◽  
Central State ◽  
State Regulations ◽  
Government Relations ◽  
Integration Of Immigrants ◽  
Post War

Governance research has become strikingly multifaceted in terms of theory, methods and empirical focus. More attention has been given to the spatial and scalar dimensions, and research are becoming more context-sensitive and process-oriented. Drawing upon on results from several research projects and programmes conducted by the authors and some other researchers this article offers an analysis of the development of Swedish central-local government relations since the 1990s. Analysing the constitutional, financial and multi-scalar/multilevel changes of these relations since the end of the Millenium, the strong neoliberal imprint upon ideology and practices is highlighted, showing how de-regulation gradually intermingled with re-regulation, combining market-driven, public welfare provision with measurement, evaluation and control. The article also bring to the fore sustainability, climate change and immigration as local policy fields characterized by horizontal capacity-building involving municipalities, private companies and civil society. Gradually municipal and regional government came under pressure by contextual challenges such as an elderly population, increasing number of school children and integration of immigrants. Related to this central state regulations and obligations multiplied and complicated local policy-making. As a broader discursive framework of the study the analysis is related to Antonino Palumbo’s (2015) exploration of post-war policy development in Europe in the light of two contesting, but complementary, ‘research programmes’, the Regulatory State and the Networked Polity. Finally, the article bring attention to the huge pandemic challenge facing humanity and governance at all levels beginning in spring 2020. What role municipalities will find in this critical juncture remains to be seen.

Strategic Policy and American Goverment: Structural Constants and Variables

1965 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward J. Kolodziej
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Military Policy ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Strategic Policy ◽  
The Common ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
Fundamental Values ◽  
Substantial Change

THE common note of most writing about strategic policy is that it accepts the governmental framework within which strategic policy-making proceeds in the United States as given, largely beyond analysis or substantial change. This tendency is quite natural and justifiable. Military force is presumably in the service of the nation's fundamental values. A nation's form of government is obviously basic to its ideals and purposes. It is important, however, for the defense analyst as well as the interested citizen to approach the relation of military policy and governmental institutions from a reversed perspective, one that seeks to identify the constraints that the American governmental system and the consent requirements that it establishes impose on effective strategic policy development and operations.

Social Science, Public Policy, and Amnesty for Chickens

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-10
Author(s):  
Merrill Eisenberg
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Agriculture Policy ◽  
Policy Development Process ◽  
Pima County ◽  
Applied Social Science

This is a story about efforts to develop local policy in Pima County, Arizona, that supports and encourages urban agriculture in Tucson, Arizona. These efforts have been guided by an applied anthropologist, working in consort with local grassroots citizen groups, and policymakers in local government. This paper describes those efforts and highlights how concepts and methods of applied social science have informed the policy development process and created opportunities for citizens to participate meaningfully in developing urban agriculture policy.

scholarly journals MOTORCYCLE-PROPELLED PUBLIC TRANSPORT AND LOCAL POLICY DEVELOPMENT

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Danielle V. GUILLEN ◽  
Haruo ISHIDA
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Local Policy

The fiscal-geographic nexus: An overview of fiscal impact assessment in local policy development

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. David Lamie ◽  
Wallace Campbell ◽  
William Molnar
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Fiscal Impact

Understanding the Impacts of Local Policies on Distributed Photovoltaic Market Development

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Doris ◽  
Sarah Booth ◽  
Joseph Chavez ◽  
Vitaliy Krasko ◽  
Sherry Stout
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
State Level ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Market Development ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Policy Action ◽  
Policy Environments ◽  
National Market ◽  
Policy Impacts ◽  
Local Policies

A growing body of literature discusses the impacts of state-level policies on the development of distributed photovoltaic (PV) markets both in the implementing jurisdictions and spilling into others. Localities (municipalities and counties) are also increasing their involvement in policy development to support clean energy markets. There is a barrier to knowing the impacts of the policies within a jurisdiction as well as how the patchwork of local policies interacts to contribute to national PV market developments. This barrier can result in an inability for localities to implement effective and efficient local policies. This paper aims to reduce this barrier by (1) summarizing local activities related to solar in 151 localities as a means of determining trends in local PV policy action, (2) looking critically at several local policy environments in two states to determine if successful policy strategies or interesting observations warrant further investigation on the impacts of local policy, and (3) outlining the challenges of and opportunities for developing improved data for supporting an understanding of local policy impacts on the national market.

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