an article by Verónica Escudero (International Labour Organization (ILO), Switzerland; Paris School of Economics (PSE), France) published in IZA Journal of Labor Policy Volume 7 Article 4 (March 2018)
Abstract
This paper examines the effectiveness of active labour market policies (ALMPs) in improving labour market outcomes, especially of low-skilled individuals, by means of a pooled cross-country and time series database for 31 advanced countries during the period 1985–2010.
The analysis includes aspects of the delivery system to see how the performance of ALMPs is affected by different implementation characteristics. Among the notable results, the paper finds that ALMPs matter at the aggregate level, but mostly through an appropriate management and implementation.
In this regard, sufficient allocation of resources to programme administration and policy continuity appear to be particularly important.
Moreover, start-up incentives and measures aimed at vulnerable populations are more effective than other ALMPs in terms of reducing unemployment and increasing employment.
Interestingly, the positive effects of these policies seem to be particularly beneficial for the low skilled.
JEL Classification: J08, E24, H5, J68, D78
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Tuesday, 27 March 2018
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
The UK Coalition government: Constructing public service reform narratives
an article by Chris Painter (Birmingham City University, UK) published in Public Policy and Administration Volume 28 Number 1 (January 2013)
Abstract
Narrative stories offer insight into political agency and constructed reality. They are also part of the armoury for maintaining political ascendancy.
The UK Cameron–Clegg Coalition government’s public service reform narrative juxtaposed its open, transparent and decentralised approach with the top-down configuration of institutional power attributed to New Labour. The more complex reality of public service reform is exemplified particularly from the criminal justice arena.
From a structuralist perspective, the Coalition’s reform trajectory has been related to emergent realities of networked governance. But here too more ambiguous influences were at work with reform again proving more problematic than anticipated.
Full text of an earlier version of this article (PDF 20pp)
Abstract
Narrative stories offer insight into political agency and constructed reality. They are also part of the armoury for maintaining political ascendancy.
The UK Cameron–Clegg Coalition government’s public service reform narrative juxtaposed its open, transparent and decentralised approach with the top-down configuration of institutional power attributed to New Labour. The more complex reality of public service reform is exemplified particularly from the criminal justice arena.
From a structuralist perspective, the Coalition’s reform trajectory has been related to emergent realities of networked governance. But here too more ambiguous influences were at work with reform again proving more problematic than anticipated.
Full text of an earlier version of this article (PDF 20pp)
Monday, 10 December 2012
Stakeholder Consultation as Social Mobilization: Framing Scottish Mental Health Policy
an article by Steve Sturdy, Jennifer Smith-Merry and Richard Freeman (University of Sydney, Australia) published in Social Policy & Administration
Volume 46 Issue 7 (December 2012)
Abstract
Public and stakeholder consultation is increasingly important in the policy process, both in the UK and elsewhere.
Social scientists have considered consultation primarily in terms of how it relates to decision-making – either as a means of involving a wider constituency of actors in the decision-making process, or as a means of legitimising the decisions taken by policy-makers.
This article shows that consultation can also serve a rather different role in relation to policy: as, in effect, the first stage in policy implementation. Based on direct observation of a stakeholder consultation on Scottish mental health policy that took place during late 2007 and early 2008, it draws on elements of social movement theory to show how that consultation served as a means of enrolling, orienting and mobilising stakeholders to implement a largely pre-existing set of policy aims.
Abstract
Public and stakeholder consultation is increasingly important in the policy process, both in the UK and elsewhere.
Social scientists have considered consultation primarily in terms of how it relates to decision-making – either as a means of involving a wider constituency of actors in the decision-making process, or as a means of legitimising the decisions taken by policy-makers.
This article shows that consultation can also serve a rather different role in relation to policy: as, in effect, the first stage in policy implementation. Based on direct observation of a stakeholder consultation on Scottish mental health policy that took place during late 2007 and early 2008, it draws on elements of social movement theory to show how that consultation served as a means of enrolling, orienting and mobilising stakeholders to implement a largely pre-existing set of policy aims.
Thursday, 25 October 2012
What’s wrong with this picture? The case of access to information requests in two continental federal states – Germany and Switzerland
an article by Sarah Holsen (Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, Lausanne) published in Public Policy and Administration Volume 27 Number 4 (October 2012)
Abstract
More than 80 access to information (ATI) laws exist worldwide. Their primary objectives are to increase transparency and accountability in government. Given the similarity in the components of ATI laws across countries, one could expect per capita usage of the laws to be roughly similar.
However, comparing the number of requests in seven countries, we found that far fewer requests are being made in Switzerland and Germany than in Canada, Ireland, Mexico, India, and the UK and that, in contrast to these five, the number is not increasing.
Drawing on 28 semi-structured interviews with experts on the Swiss Law on Transparency (LTrans) and German FOI Law (IFG), we offer three primary explanations for the low use of the laws.
The first is that few people are aware of the law in either country as a consequence of little promotion of the laws.
The second is that people might have more interest in information held at the state or local level than at the federal level.
The third is that other avenues to information in Switzerland reduce interest in using the LTrans and a culture of “amtsgeheimnis”, or official secrecy, in Germany inhibits the administration from willingly disclosing information.
We examine these hypotheses against the situation in the UK, where awareness of the FOI law is known to be high and the number of requests is high and has been on the rise for the past four years.
Abstract
More than 80 access to information (ATI) laws exist worldwide. Their primary objectives are to increase transparency and accountability in government. Given the similarity in the components of ATI laws across countries, one could expect per capita usage of the laws to be roughly similar.
However, comparing the number of requests in seven countries, we found that far fewer requests are being made in Switzerland and Germany than in Canada, Ireland, Mexico, India, and the UK and that, in contrast to these five, the number is not increasing.
Drawing on 28 semi-structured interviews with experts on the Swiss Law on Transparency (LTrans) and German FOI Law (IFG), we offer three primary explanations for the low use of the laws.
The first is that few people are aware of the law in either country as a consequence of little promotion of the laws.
The second is that people might have more interest in information held at the state or local level than at the federal level.
The third is that other avenues to information in Switzerland reduce interest in using the LTrans and a culture of “amtsgeheimnis”, or official secrecy, in Germany inhibits the administration from willingly disclosing information.
We examine these hypotheses against the situation in the UK, where awareness of the FOI law is known to be high and the number of requests is high and has been on the rise for the past four years.
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