Měření governance jako způsobu řízení, koordinace, kontroly a realizace veřejných politik a programů na regionální a lokální úrovni
| Title in English | The measurement of the governance of governance as a way of management, coordination, control and implementation of public and social programs at regional and local levels |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Fórum sociální politiky |
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| Field | Management and administrative |
| Keywords | governance; governing; management; public policy; public and social programmes; partnerships and networks |
| Description | In the presented paper we scrutinize the significance, ways and possibilities of measuring the concept of governance, which can be interpreted as either “governing” or “managing” public policies and public and social programmes. The existing method of measuring governance in the sense of “government” has limited usefulness for public policy practice in our opinion, because it focuses solely on the state and higher level of government and almost entirely overlooks the regional and local levels. For that reason, and based on the extensive foreign and domestic literature dealing with this concept, we propose our own method for measuring governance, which we understand more simply as the “management” of public policies and programmes (and in more complicated terms as a method for managing, coordinating, controlling and implementing these programmes). We use the concept of “management” intentionally, because we are reflecting the real public-policy shift in the perception of the governance debate from the traditional “governing” by a government at state level to the modern “management” (or administration) of individual public policies by state and non-state actors at regional and local level. Our proposed measurement method should provide information about both the structure and dynamics of the process of planning, administering and implementing public policies at state, regional and local level, and should thus draw attention – in comparison with governance methods in our countries – to the strengths and weaknesses of the governance of a specific public policy and where these strengths and weaknesses lie (whether in the areas of financing, regulation or implementation of a policy system). At the end of the paper we give thorough consideration to the possibility of making real use of the information gained by measuring governance at “governing” and by our proposed measuring of governance as “management”. |
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