Among the many reasons that may limit the adoption of promising reform ideas, policy capacity is the least recognized. The concept itself is not widely understood. Although policy capacity is concerned with the gathering of information and the formulation of options for public action in the initial phases of policy consultation and development, it also touches on all stages of the policy proces...

Current research efforts are being directed to commit with the long-term view of self-management properties for telecommunications networks. One of the key approaches that have been recognised as an enabler of such a view is policy-based management. Policy-based management has been mostly acknowledged as a methodology that provides flexibility, adaptability and support to automatically assign n...

The paper investigates the relevance of participatory approaches to environmental policy-making when sustainable development is taken as the encompassing normative basis for environmental governance. In the first section, we illustrate the frequent references to participatory approaches in environmental decision-making. We then look at environmental issue attributes as determinants of the probl...

Policy capacity focuses on the managerial and organizational abilities to inform policy decisions with sound research and analysis, and facilitate policy implementation with operational efficiency. It stems from a view of the policy process that is rational and positivistic, in which optimal policy choices can be identified, selected, and implemented with objectivity. By itself, however, policy...

This study aimed to see how the coalition policy at national level narrated social safety net (JPS) as an effort save people from crisis during Covid-19 Pandemic. Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) was used analyze influence of narrative component experts, executives, and their supporters on JPS process. The method descriptive qualitative. result showed that strategy coalitions meso in influenced...