Public Policy Failure Research Articles

Agroenergy Policies and the Influence of Interest Groups – the Case of Polo Agroindustrial e Bioenergético do Médio São Francisco in Bahia, Brasil

Objective: The objective of this article was to investigate how public policies to promote productive activities can be influenced by the actions of interest groups, affect decision-making, and consequently increase the risks of failure and generate government failures. Theoretical Framework: The theoretical framework adopted is the theories of Public Choice and Strategic Public Management, which provided the basis for understanding the context of the investigation. Method: The methodology consisted of literature review, interviews, policy analysis methodology (PAM) and case study. Data was collected through bibliographic and documentary research, semi-structured interviews with public officials, business people and researchers, and field visits for direct observation. Results and Discussion: The findings revealed that interest groups opposed to stricter regulations on the occupation of territorial space for the exploitation of natural resources influenced the decision-making process for setting the policy agenda, formulating and implementing policies. It also revealed the "permeability" of the government to pressure from these groups, which resulted in the nonimplementation of the Polo. Research Implications: The practical and theoretical implications of this research provide insights into how the findings can influence practices in the fields of state theory, public policy formulation and management, and territorial development, as well as in the productive, social, and environmental sectors. Originality/Value: This study contributes to the literature by relating the adopted theories to a real case of public policy failure, so that public policy makers can develop mechanisms to curb or minimize the influence of these groups in governments.

Mini-Open Dumps in the Paraná River Floodplain: Local Problems with Global Effects.

The growing production of urban solid waste is a structural problem faced by most cities around the world. The proliferation of mini-open dumps (MOD; small spontaneous open-air waste dumps formed in urban and peri-urban areas) on the banks of the Paraná River is particularly evident. During the historical drought (June-December 2021), we carried out sampling campaigns identifying MODs of the Santa Fe River, a secondary channel of the Paraná River. MOD were geolocated, measured, described and classified by origin. The distance to the river and other sensitive places was considered (houses-schools-health facilities). Our results suggested a serious environmental issue associated with poor waste management. MOD were extremely abundant in the study area, being mostly composed of domestic litter. Plastics clearly dominated the MOD composition. Burning was frequently observed as a method to reduce the volume of MOD. We concluded that the proliferation of MOD is a multi-causal problem associated with a failure of public policies and a lack of environmental education.

Innovative public procurement policy failure: a case analysis from Poland

Objectives: The rising popularity of innovation public procurement (IPP) sets a question about conditions as an effective tool of transformative policies, including the governance level, coordination and strategic development. The purpose of the article is to explore the failure of governance in a Polish IPP to present how IPP guidelines are implemented empirically. The other contributions refer to merging DARPA’s approach and IPP. Research Design & Methods: The research article presents conclusions from the case study of first large-scale trial of public procurement procedure with respect to an innovative partnership in Poland. Findings: The case is a rarely analyzed example of policy failure and shows that ignoring stakeholders’ needs, timeline constrains and market capacity can result in policy failure. Program history highlights that proper risk analysis and adaptation to the market context can prevent program failure. Implications / Recommendations: The article opens up a field for considering what steps are crucial in formulating IPP. The analysis leads to the main conclusion that transformative policy frameworks using demand- pull tools need to be embedded in the market realities and capabilities of national innovation systems. Article classification: research article

Logic Analysis of Public Policy Failure under Smith Model—Taking the Central-Local Implementation Deviation of Epidemic Prevention and Control as an Example

Logic Analysis of Public Policy Failure under Smith Model—Taking the Central-Local Implementation Deviation of Epidemic Prevention and Control as an Example

Beyond fallacies: violent conflicts globally and in muslim countries

This article explores the relationship between key economic development indicators and the occurrence of violent civil conflicts. It examines public policy failures and mistakes which link with onset of conflicts. Two sets of 160 countries are included to empirically analyse the determinants of conflicts. This analysis extends to two distinctive subsets of Muslim countries. The paper establishes that the classification procedure of violent conflicts matters—varying classifications offer dissimilar values to similar predictors. Here, our conclusions are contrary to the much emphasized ‘greed motivation’ to rebel, which dismisses strong linkages of ‘grievances’ like low income, economic development failures and political repression with intrastate violent conflicts. The paper also infers limitations in country level data—which cross-country studies employ—income and unemployment data are non-reflective of conflict regions and of horizontal inequalities. We stress region and country specific research.

Tackling the UK’s regional economic inequality: binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention

ABSTRACT We analyse binding constraints to productivity growth in the UK’s regions outside London and the greater South East. These analyses challenge a number of common arguments about the UK’s regional economic inequality problem. We find little evidence consistent with the hypotheses (i) that low shares of university graduates remain the primary constraint on growth for the UK’s regions; (ii) that there is a generalised issue with access to finance for firms outside the South East; or (iii) that low or falling regional migration rates are to blame for the persistence of the UK’s regional economic inequalities. Instead, we find evidence consistent with (i) a specific relative shortage of STEM degrees; (ii) binding transport infrastructure constraints within major non-London conurbations; (iii) a failure of public innovation policy to support clusters beyond the South East, in particular through the regional distribution of public support for Research and Development (R&D); and (iv) missed opportunities for higher internal mobility due to London’s overheating housing market. We also find some suggestive evidence consistent with constraints on access to early-stage equity financing for high-growth-potential SMEs in certain regions.

A slow-burning crisis: Executive relations and the normalisation of distrust in Northern Ireland's ‘cash for ash’ fiasco

This paper explores relationships between ministers, special advisers and civil servants through the lens of a high-profile government crisis in Northern Ireland (NI). Although political–administrative relationships are a mainstay of public administration research, we still have limited understanding of how these relationships feature and function within the ‘Westminster family’ of governance when operating within devolved institutions or post-conflict societies, nor of their role in crisis. We use Scott’s institutional pillars as an analytical framework and conduct a documentary analysis of public inquiry witness statements to explore the Renewable Heat Incentive crisis which led to the collapse of the NI legislature. Utilising a novel application of existing theory, we demonstrate that the implementation of the devolved, consociational power-sharing model incubated new governance norms, that prioritised and legitimised the agendas and actions of political actors (ministers and special advisers), over civil servants. Specifically, in understanding how relational norms – particularly distrust – feed public policy failure and institutional crisis, our findings contribute to this research area and to the broader public administration field. Government institutional crisis negatively impacts upon public service delivery and the wider health of democracy. Understanding such crises is an important first step in their amelioration. Points for practitioners Structural, systemic and day-to-day behavioural layering of distrust adversely impacts government professionals’ ability to recognise, communicate and respond to risk; this can create policy problems, which can escalate, unchecked, until they have become full-blown crises. In order to proactively mitigate crises in other public policy contexts, managers and teams should build in awareness raising, reflection and management processes to individual and operational performance reviews to improve relational norms, and prevent the normalisation of distrust.

Conceptual Analysis of Public Policy Failures in Nigeria: Tract to Economic Underdevelopment

Conceptual Analysis of Public Policy Failures in Nigeria: Tract to Economic Underdevelopment

Conceptual Analysis of Public Policy Failures in Nigeria: Tract to Economic Underdevelopment

The study examined the conceptual issues of public policy failure in Nigeria and how it affects economic development. The main objective of the study is to conceptually analyses public policy failures in Nigeria as a tract to economic underdevelopment. Contents method was used in the analysis. This means that the study uses conceptual analysis and rational analysis in assessing the public policies failures in Nigeria. The study was based on the thesis of elite theory. The study reveals that public policies are not effective in Nigeria. The paper also reveals the consequences of public policies failure in Nigeria. The study analyzed the concept of public policy and economic underdevelopment. The study concludes that constant changes of government in Nigeria, high level of corruption among government officials of these public policies agencies among others affected the smooth operations of public policies in Nigeria. The study therefore recommends that there should be continuity in public policy implementation even where there is change in government as government is a continuum; and parochial and primordial interests should be avoided during policy formulation and implementation in the country. There should be capital punishment in the country constitution to address the issues of corruption in Nigeria.

What Does a Public Health Approach to Mental Health and Illness Look Like?

What Does a Public Health Approach to Mental Health and Illness Look Like?

How Public Administrators Inadvertently Helped Get Donald J. Trump Elected President: The Great Recession, the Housing Crisis, and the Failure of Public Policy

How Public Administrators Inadvertently Helped Get Donald J. Trump Elected President: The Great Recession, the Housing Crisis, and the Failure of Public Policy

The Business of Improving Neighborhoods. A Critical Overview of Neighborhood-Based Business Improvement Districts (NBIDs) in Sweden

This article offers an overview of neighbourhood-based BIDs (NBIDs) in Sweden. Swedish NBIDs tend to appear in stigmatized residential areas engaging with pressing sets of urban issues that have been longstanding concern of social policy. Their overarching goal is raising property values in neighborhoods on the edge between urban decline and (re)development potential. Emerging in a neoliberalizing institutional context, NBIDs present themselves as correctives to public-policy failures by promoting property-oriented solutions. The adaptation of the BID model in the Swedish ‘post-welfare’ landscape, however, exhibits, and arguably exacerbates, the shortcomings found in BID elsewhere. Their opaque institutional structure and lack of accountability contribute to curbing democratic influence over local development, thus reinforcing spatial inequalities. We argue that the growing political advocacy for the institutionalization of the BID model in Sweden presents a new milestone in the neoliberalization of urban governance, as private actors are promoted to legitimate co-creators of urban policy.

Activation and new governance of labor market policies in Central and Eastern European Countries

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КРИЗИС КАК ПОТРЕБНОСТЬ: ВСТРОЕННЫЕ ПАРАДОКСЫ РОССИЙСКОГО ОФИЦИАЛЬНОГО ДИСКУРСА

Current paper is devoted to the problem of using two lexemes within the Russian official discourse, which have a great importance for the formation of a certain Russian people's attitude towards government bodies and even the Russian «authority» as it is. These are the lexemes of «crisis» and «stability» that are regularly used within official discourse; over the past decades, this appeals did not acquire a clear content, but laid the foundation for the continuing reproduction of special official speech acts. The representation of «crisis» and «stability» in these speech acts (defined in the article, in accordance with J. Searle's classification as «representative», «commissive” and “expressive») allows public opinion manipulating without specifying the meaning of the lexemes themselves, but with maintaining the desired image of power. Up to the author's mind, the continuing appeal of the official discourse to the lexemes of «crisis» and «stability», despite the accumulated contradictions and even frank anecdotes (in terms of completely different statements of the same speaker), allows, on the one hand, to explain the failures of public policy by external circumstances (described with «crisis» speech acts), and on the other hand, continue the course of depoliticizing Russian society, associated with the fact that the Russian people associate «stability» with «order», «quiet» and the absence of changes. Thus, «stability», presented as the most important achievement of the existing government, turns into appeal of non-interference to the reproduction of the existing political regime and preferring it to the democratic slogans of opposition figures.

Ressocialização de Presos pela Produção Literária

O presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar a ressocialização de presos através de produção literária. A crise populacional que assola o sistema penitenciário brasileiro é uma realidade. Um dos principais fatores a contribuir para a alta taxa de ocupação dos presídios é o alto índice de reincidência. Essa situação denota a falha das atuais políticas públicas de ressocialização dos apenados, que não cumprem, a contento, a sua missão. Nesse contexto, merece destaque a falta de incentivos por parte da nossa legislação, e das autoridades públicas, à produção literária por parte daqueles que estão recolhidos ao cárcere. A atividade intelectual promovida pela produção de obras literárias exige, em suas mais variadas nuances, um nível de conhecimento e consciência por parte do autor, o que, por si só, exige maior engajamento por parte daquele que se põe a externar os pensamentos. Por exigir mais comprometimento, é natural que a propensão dessas pessoas à vida intelectual se torne mais natural. Justamente por isso, a hipótese levantada neste trabalho é que o incentivo à produção literária, nos cárceres brasileiros, ajudaria na ressocialização dos presos. Na busca por respostas para a hipótese formulada adotou-se a pesquisa bibliográfica como método de pesquisa. Os resultados encontrados confirmaram a hipótese levantada, demonstrando que o correto incentivo à produção literária poderia ser um agente de transformação no cárcere, promovendo a adequada ressocialização dos presos através da produção intelectual.

Public Policy Failure: A Study of Home Industry Food Production Certification Policy

There is an increasing concentration of Public Administration scientists on measuring whether policy succeeds or fails. It is no longer clear how best to ensure that the policy process from formulation to policy implementation is the best and more effective way. Including in the Home Industry Food, Production Certificate Policy (SPP-IRT) is taken as a locus. Study of the Home Industry of Ground Coffee in Nagari Koto Tuo, Tanah Datar Regency. The policy on offering SPP-IRT has undergone several changes, but it will not be effective. It will fail to provide quality assurance and food safety. the increase in IRTPs who have certificates does not increase. The research method used in this study uses a qualitative approach with a case study research design. The results showed that providing Food Home Industry Certification (IRTP) with the case in the provision of IRTP Coffee Powder certificates in Nagari Koto Tuo showed that the policy failures included tolerable policy criteria. Modest loss when it happens does not fundamentally hold back the goals the proponents want to achieve, and the minor opposition and criticism that occurs is almost non-existent in this SPP-IRT-related policy.

“MISS RONA IS REALLY CLAPPING THE WHITE SUPREMACISTS”: BLACK TWITTER'S POLITICAL HUMOR IN COVID-19 TIMES

As has been widely reported, the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately sickened and killed Black Americans. At the same time, however, there is a significant body of conversation on Black Twitter that jokes about the pandemic. This includes tweets that nickname the pandemic as "Miss Rona,” as in “god i need a drink so bad, miss rona i promise i will be good.” Through an analysis of tweets using the “Miss Rona” nickname, we examine how Black Twitter humor serves as a site of political critique of both public policy failures and the Trump administration more broadly, with users leveraging practices like Signifyin’, African American Vernacular English (AAVE), and wordplay to resist legibility by outsiders as they orient toward their own community. Black humor is political commentary that resonates with the Black community because the tweets address or refer to Black trauma during the pandemic: dealing with continued racial violence, white supremacist ideology, and medical disparities based on race. The tweets are also expressions of Black Twitter catharsis (joy despite pain) through witty one-sided Twitter banters that skillfully and playfully engage with several facets of the social and political climate. We consider how these conversations go beyond laughing to keep from crying to coded political statements and cultural alliance, and argue that Black Twitter’s jokes about the collective trauma of COVID-19 is a resource for online camaraderie, cultural critique, and community affiliation.

Understanding the Lessons of Failure Public Policy over the Pandemic Issues in Global Context

This paper wanted to understand how the lessons learned from the failure of public policies in responding to the Pandemic in a global context. The success of responding to a pandemic that has become the task of public office holders is closely related to implementing public policies. For this reason, we tried to examine several international publications published after the global hit pandemic. This study uses secondary data that we find through an electronic search that we specialize in the latest issue between 2017 and 2021. Then we examine it with a phenomenological approach such as a data coding system, evaluation, and in-depth interpretation to get valid and reliable finding data. So based on the findings and discussion data, we can conclude that there are several lessons that we can take from the failure of pandemic policies in the global context. Among other things, lessons on humanitarian commitment, lack of natural resources, lousy application behavior, corruption, and several other bureaucratic mistakes. Thus, these findings can add insight to the parties.

Accountability Asset Recovery: A Leadership & Sustainability Initiative Receivership Is NOT Releasership

For effective recovery of qualified assets, receivership is not releasership--the improper disposition of recovered assets. Disposition of assets being the technical terminology utilized by asset recovery and insolvency practitioners to motion the court to release recovered assets held in their custody. According to the IMF, insolvency practitioner overreach has become macro-critical to the stability of the global financial system. Anti-money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism, preventative measures and the proceeds of crime acts, 2003 and 2009 for the common law legal system and 2005 for the civil law legal system under pinning AML-CFT international cooperation could have become captured for personal purposes by the participants in the very network groups involved in its creation. Investigating the relationship through the lens of Operation Rotten Tomato, the case studying conversion, through Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, of property qualified for recovery based on suspicion or reasonable grounds to suspect unproven wrongdoing. Implementation of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption a systemic experimentation in public policy failure, information asymmetry and principal agent problems.

Tunisian industrial policy, location and evolution of the industrial space of the interior regions

AbstractTunisia's industrial development policies have long been considered as a strategic axis that guarantees the economic development of different regions. The industrial policy has tried to achieve a better distribution of economic activities and to promote industrialization in the interior regions. This article studies the evolution of the industrial space of the interior regions of Tunisia. As it measured the concentration and the geographical specialization of economic activities, in connection with their further estimation on a temporal trend, using a common empirical framework that exploits an intermediate geographic level and manufacturing sectors. This approach yields evidence on the weakly diversified industrial structure of the interior and the southern governorates of Tunisia. It is proved, too, that the growth of the manufacturing industry is accompanied by huge inequalities between space units. Given the previously stated results, the industrial policies in the interior regions of Tunisia would be of considerable benefit if it solves the problem of the market and public policy failure. Thus, we strongly urge the establishment of new components of industrial policy.