Unboxing the vague notion of policy goals: Comparison of Croatian public policies
| Autor: | Marko Kovačić, Ana Petek, Borna Zgurić, Mario Munta, Marjeta Šinko, Krešimir Petković, Anka Kekez, Nikola Baketa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Research evaluation
Croatian Public Administration omparative public policy cross-sectoral comparison qualitative content analysis policy design policy goals Health Policy Business administration Political science language Public policy Management Monitoring Policy and Law Qualitative content analysis Policy design language.human_language |
| Zdroj: | European Policy Analysis. 7:451-469 |
| ISSN: | 2380-6567 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/epa2.1106 |
| Popis: | IN ENGLISH: This study aims at empirically improving public policy theory by unfolding the concept of policy goals and contributing to their classifications. The research focuses on the thematic dimension of policy goals and investigates 11 Croatian governmental strategies using qualitative content analysis. The research identifies original policy goal types and classifies them into sector‐, process‐, evaluation‐, instrument‐, and value‐oriented goals. Article concludes with a more comprehensive definition of policy goals, as governmental statements about desired futures in relation to specific sectoral purposes, values, and principles in democratic political systems, policymaking process improvements, necessary instrumental innovations, and evaluation standards that should be fulfilled. The application of this definition and developed goals’ classification reveals that elements of policy‐process theories, evaluation research, policy design theory and instrument analysis, democracy theory, and sector‐specific research need to be synthesized to better understand the concept of policy goals and to advance their research. --------------- IN CROATIAN: Cilj ovog clanka je empirijski poboljsati teoriju javnih politika razvijanjem koncepta ciljeva politike i doprinosom njihovoj klasifikaciji. Istraživanje se fokusira na tematsku dimenziju ciljeva politike i istražuje 11 hrvatskih vladinih strategija pomocu kvalitativne analize sadržaja. Istraživanje identificira izvorne vrste ciljeva politike i klasificira ih na ciljeve usmjerene na sektor, proces, procjenu, instrument i vrijednost. Clanak zavrsava opsežnijom definicijom ciljeva politike, kao vladine izjave o željenoj buducnosti u odnosu na određene sektorske svrhe, vrijednosti i nacela u demokratskim politickim sustavima, poboljsanja procesa donosenja politika, potrebne instrumentalne inovacije i standarde ocjenjivanja koje treba ispuniti. Primjena ove klasifikacije i klasifikacija razvijenih ciljeva otkriva da elemente teorija politickih procesa, istraživanja evaluacije, teorije dizajna politika i analize instrumenata, teorije demokracije i specificnih sektorskih istraživanja treba sintetizirati kako bi se bolje razumio koncept ciljeva politike i kako bi unaprijedili svoja istraživanja. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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