Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 27th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview Main Theme Author(s) Vitalis Nakrosis University of Vilnius Vilnius Lithuania Bortkevičiūtė Rasa, Title The Operation of Advisory Systems within Varying Political and Economic Contexts: The Case of the Lithuanian Sunset Commission File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Vitalis Nakrosis Abstract IThis article analyses the use of information provided by advisory bodies during policymaking and implementation. The main purpose of our research was to assess the impact of the Sunset Commissions’ recommendations on public management policy in Lithuania, as well as to explain which factors determine the successful use of advice. We explored these questions by linking different types of variables (related to an external context, a public policy subsystem and an advisory structure) into a single framework for analysis and conducting empirical research based on desk research, an analysis of available administrative information, a series of interviews and a survey of the Commissions’ members. The results of our assessment reveal a good deal of variation in the use of the Commissions’ recommendations across different governments and make it possible to identify the configuration of conditions that best explains the effective use of advice in the policy subsystem.
