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II. Working Group on Public Sector Quality

WG Programme Coordinators:


William N. Dunn, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, USA and Graduate Center for Public Policy and Management, Republic of Macedonia
E-mail:
dunn@pitt.edu
Katarina Staronova, Open Society Foundation Slovakia
E-mail:
katka@osf.sk
Sergei Pushkarev, Ural State University, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Russian Federation,
E-mail:
sergei_pushkarev@mail.ru


NISPAcee Project Manager:


Viera Wallnerova, Email: wallnerova@nispa.org

Theme 2005: ”Quality of Implementation”
The Working Group on Public Sector Quality throughout its existence since 1999 has discussed the basic principles of quality in public administration. Among the issues addressed by this working group have been: promotion and measurement of quality in the public administration, the role of public consultation and e-government in improving the quality of service delivery, how to assess the quality of public governance, and quality of policy analysis, research, and expertise in decision-making and implementation. Following the interest of its participants and the last theme, group’s focus moves towards the new theme - the implementation. There are two broad directions of analysis for which papers will be prepared.

The practice shows that the stage of implementation is extremely weak in the policy making processes in Central and East European countries. The first thoughts (if any) about implementation come only when the law is passed. These thoughts tend to relate the implementation to the application of the law, and to that end some ministries occasionally prepare seminars to secure unified application of the law.  Implementation is a necessary step following policy decision; otherwise policy-making looses its purpose and mission.
In most countries in Europe, there is not a coherent modernizing agenda in relation to quality policy implementation and assessment of this quality. Without implementation, all good efforts in the public administration reform become only theoretical exercises. In other words, professional and high quality public policy implementation addresses efficiency and effectiveness directly in a real world of activity and thus supports change and improvement on the road to democracy and citizen satisfaction. Papers presenting single case studies or comparative, policy-relevant empirical research on how to assess and measure implementation processes, how to improve quality of policy implementation in the good governance perspective in the western democracies, CEE and the NIS are sought by this working group. This includes studies that identify conditions that facilitate and retard implementation, factors that may help or hinder the implementation of effective policies at the national, regional or local level. To what extent do policy-makers including elected officials as well as civil servants and their roles and ethics influence quality of the implementation? Papers may include applications of existing models of implementation to a concrete process, documentation of the use of methods and techniques for monitoring the process and outcomes of implementation, development of systems of indicators that are or could be useful in monitoring and evaluation of the implementation, and an inventory and assessment of some of the most important methods and models for monitoring and evaluating implementation. Do experts and consultants, and/or citizen participation or consultation have a place in these methods and techniques for monitoring and evaluation of implementation? What impact has EU accession (or the pursuit of EU accession) had on policy implementation at the national, regional or local level? Has the accession process helped or hindered the improvement of policy implementation in the member states, accession states and states outside of the accession process?  Comparisons of cases of successful and unsuccessful implementation and case studies of the implementation and non-implementation of policies are useful part of this call topic. We hope that a range of papers drawing on the empirical experience in a variety of countries and at various levels of government will provide a valuable basis for cumulating our current knowledge about the range of variation and factors contributing to or hindering the improvement of policy implementation.

In sum, we are calling for papers of two kinds.  First, we seek evaluations/analyses/empirical research of the quality of preparation for the policy implementation process (e.g. the use of impact assessment tools, implementation strategies, etc. prior to actual implementation). Second, we seek evaluations, analysis, empirical research and case studies that assess the performance or demonstrate progress in actual implementation of certain policies. Practical experience from practitioners and civil servants who may increase the dissemination of good practice in the region is welcome. We would therefore particularly like to invite papers, which combine conceptual and empirical research on the issues described below.

Discussions of the working group will be organized around five sub-topics:
  1. The impact of the EU accession on the quality of policy implementation;
  2. Evaluation of the quality of the policy implementation process (both anticipation of the implementation and the actual implementation);
  3. Monitoring and measuring the performance of civil servants and other stakeholders in the implementation of the policies;
  4. Conditions that affect the quality of policy implementation;
  5. Decentralization, outsourcing and the quality of policy implementation on local and regional levels.
The research protocol with specific outlines could be found in external files:
 MS Word file (37k) or  Acrobat PDF file (17k)
 We request participants to follow the research guidelines carefully as a major criterion for selection of papers and funding participant’s travel is that papers follow the protocol effectively. In choosing your topic and planning your proposed research, do not hesitate to contact the workshop coordinators.

We welcome all contributions from CEE as well as Western countries especially those who have no previous contact with WG. More detailed information about our WG is available at the NISPA website.