"Good" Governance and Policy Analysis: What of Institutions?
Parto, Saeed (2005). "Good" Governance and Policy Analysis: What of Institutions?. UNU-MERIT Research Memoranda. UNU-MERIT.
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Sub-type Working paper Author Parto, Saeed Title "Good" Governance and Policy Analysis: What of Institutions? Series Title UNU-MERIT Research Memoranda Volume/Issue No. 1 Publication Date 2005 Publisher UNU-MERIT Language eng Abstract Policy formation is only one the three main components in the continuum of policy formation ' policy implementation ' policy evaluation ' policy formation. To fully understand why policy outcomes often fall significantly short of policy intentions we need to examine the structuring factors, i.e., the institutions of governance, that shape the policy process. This paper focuses on the interplay between the policy process, governance, and institutions to articulate a framework for conducting institutionally sensitive policy analysis. A comparative study of the waste subsystems in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom reveals that each subsystem is the product of its 'own' institutional landscape, and not directly and immediately subject to the whims of policy making at the EU scale of governance. Although there are signs of 'Europeanization' in both cases, national problems, policies, and politics as manifest through the full spectrum of formal and informal institutions continue to play a major role in facilitating and curtailing change in each of the two waste subsystems. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of institutionally sensitive policy analysis for the current discourse on governance for sustainable development at the European scale. (Key words: Governance, Policy Analysis, EU, Sustainable Development) Copyright Year 2005 Copyright type All rights reserved -
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