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Current Challenges in Strategy and Public Policy

A special issue of Administrative Sciences (ISSN 2076-3387).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2024) | Viewed by 2673

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Richard K. Common

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Business School, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK
Interests: public policy analysis; public sector management; international and comparative public management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In the very unpredictable world of the early 21st century, the analysis of public policy and management has come under challenge. Simplistic assumptions about public policy using a top-down analysis are redundant, given that stakeholders are involved in policy formulation, including local communities, citizen groups, and multiple economic interests. Public service delivery has also been subject to radical change through e-government, digitisation, and co-production. Knowledge about public policy and management reform is also rapidly circulated and transferred between states, while at the same time, there have been calls for professionalisation and credentialism of public servants.

As a result of this complexity, which includes greater involvement from stakeholders and multiple modes of public service delivery, the tools of strategy are now being used to a greater degree in the analysis of public policy. However, this has created issues of governance and accountability. Therefore, this Special Issue is timed to invite public policy and management academics to consider how a ‘strategic lens’ can be used to inform better policy making and to offer new insights into navigating the analysis of public policy. The Special Issue also recognises the broad scope of issues that strategy generates for a wide variety of public services.

Dr. Richard K. Common
Guest Editor

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The Situation of Social Cooperatives in Small Villages in Hungary
by Katalin Lipták
Adm. Sci. 2025, 15(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci15010003 - 24 Dec 2024
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Social cooperatives, which are an important pillar of the solidarity economy, have become increasingly popular and common in Hungary over the past 10 years, especially in disadvantaged settlements, where the administrative burden of public employment is outsourced to social cooperatives. Analyzing social cooperatives [...] Read more.
Social cooperatives, which are an important pillar of the solidarity economy, have become increasingly popular and common in Hungary over the past 10 years, especially in disadvantaged settlements, where the administrative burden of public employment is outsourced to social cooperatives. Analyzing social cooperatives in small villages is a relevant topic for local economic development. Of the 3155 settlements in Hungary, 1162 have a population of less than 500 inhabitants, i.e., small villages. In the spatial structure of Hungary, small villages tend to be located on the periphery, which is both the spatial and socio-economical peripheral position, with mostly disadvantaged inhabitants with low educational attainment and high unemployment. In these settlements, local communities can better understand what hinders and what helps their economies to grow and improve living standards by assessing their economic base. With this new knowledge, local communities can achieve results through strategically designed programs and projects that social cooperatives can join and help achieve. The methodology of the study is field research; we interviewed managers of the social cooperatives to learn about its operations and difficulties. The study described well-run and successful social cooperatives. In small villages, these cooperatives can be an important source of employment, even if the number of people employed is low. The experiences of the field research are presented in the form of recommendations for policymakers, as social cooperatives can be an important instrument of employment policy. Full article
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Politico-Administrative Culture and Public Service Reform in Post-Independence Kazakhstan
by Artan Karini
Adm. Sci. 2024, 14(10), 268; https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci14100268 - 21 Oct 2024
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Classical organizational management literature draws clear parallels between organizational culture and climate and effective use of power and influence as key to successful policy implementation of reforms in public sector organizations. On the other hand, the public policy literature, in particular, policy transfer [...] Read more.
Classical organizational management literature draws clear parallels between organizational culture and climate and effective use of power and influence as key to successful policy implementation of reforms in public sector organizations. On the other hand, the public policy literature, in particular, policy transfer as a strand within policy studies, emphasizes the role of the national context, more specifically, ‘facilitators’ and ‘constraints’ of ‘‘politico-administrative culture” within the national context, as crucial to understanding processes of transfer, convergence, and diffusion of public policy. There is a plethora of studies by Western scholars of public management who have successfully utilized these theoretical underpinnings to study the effectiveness of public service reforms in mature policy environments such as the UK, the US, Australia, New Zealand, and others. However, the public policy and comparative public management literature only offers a limited number of case studies from developing, middle-/upper-middle countries, which rely on concepts of organizational management in addition to narratives on the impact of policy learning from global doctrines, such as Weberianism, New Public Management (NPM), and New Public Governance (NPG), and national politics, on the implementation of administrative reforms in those contexts. Kazakhstan, as a resource-affluent post-Soviet country and a bastion of modernization and ‘open government’ in Central Asia or the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in the post-Soviet era is a case in point. Based on ethnographic research consisting of interviews with elite academics, civil servants, and think-tank activists, as well as reviews of OECD and government strategy reports in Astana, the findings point to a potential abatement of the impact of context constraints such as large power distance and collectivist behavior by context facilitators such as those surrounding the use of ‘trilingualism’ and public diplomacy towards reforms in Kazakhstan particularly in recent years. Full article
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