Improving government decision-making systems in Lithuania and Latvia
By: EVANS, Anne
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Contributor(s): EVANS, Gord.
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ArticlePublisher: December 2001Subject(s): Tomada de Decisão | Performance | Planejamento | Política | Latvia | LithuaniaJournal of European Public Policy 8, 6, p. 933-959Abstract: The central premise undepinning this article is that a well-designed, well-supporte government decision-making system will reduce the level of executive policy unreliability, which is essentially a measure of the degree to which governments break their promises. This article describes the result of two diagnostic approaches, applied by teh Lithuanian and Latvian governments, to identify institutional strngths and weaknesses in policy management at the centre. First, a series of measures gauging government performance and the prevalence of executive policy unreliability at four stages of the policy process were identified and the corresponding data collected. Second, case studies on successful and unsuccessful government policy initiatives were completed. The results were then used to inform remedial programmes being undertaken to improve the government`s decision-making system. The approaches outlined may provie a transferble methodology for practitioners at the center in other governments for assessing and improving their systems of policy management
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The central premise undepinning this article is that a well-designed, well-supporte government decision-making system will reduce the level of executive policy unreliability, which is essentially a measure of the degree to which governments break their promises. This article describes the result of two diagnostic approaches, applied by teh Lithuanian and Latvian governments, to identify institutional strngths and weaknesses in policy management at the centre. First, a series of measures gauging government performance and the prevalence of executive policy unreliability at four stages of the policy process were identified and the corresponding data collected. Second, case studies on successful and unsuccessful government policy initiatives were completed. The results were then used to inform remedial programmes being undertaken to improve the government`s decision-making system. The approaches outlined may provie a transferble methodology for practitioners at the center in other governments for assessing and improving their systems of policy management
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