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A Policy Design Approach to Development Policy : = Cases from the Philippines.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A Policy Design Approach to Development Policy :/
Reminder of title:	Cases from the Philippines.
Author:	Saguin, Kidjie Ian Cordova.
Description:	1 online resource (390 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-04A.
Subject:	Failure. -
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ISBN:	9798352681503

A Policy Design Approach to Development Policy : = Cases from the Philippines.
Saguin, Kidjie Ian Cordova.

A Policy Design Approach to Development Policy :Cases from the Philippines. - 1 online resource (390 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--National University of Singapore (Singapore), 2021.

Includes bibliographical references

Many low- and middle-income countries struggle to transform well-designed policies into concrete actions because of poor implementation capacity. However, this paradox of well-designed, badly implemented policies inherently assumes 'goodness' in their design, ignoring the better-than-expected track record of governments in implementing successful policies and programs. The implementation paradox reveals a long-standing bias of the international development community for the spread of best practices or 'first-best policies' that assume ideal conditions for implementation.The thesis challenges this consensus in development theory and practice by formulating a policy design approach to examining the effectiveness of development policies. It broadly asks, Why do development policies fail? And what does policy design have to do with this failure? Following an abductive research strategy, the thesis builds on the recent concept of 'goal instrumentality' to recognize the less-than-benign role of policy goals in the amelioration of policy problems. Despite early recognition of goals as a crucial element of policy design, policy studies' subsequent focus on instrument research relegated policy goal as a fixed constraint that designers must work around to make effective policies. Goal instrumentality recognizes the government's ability to systematically choose and modify goals for purposes instrumental to its own achievement.The goal instrumentality concept is central to the framework of 'secondbest policy design' being advanced by the thesis. The framework puts conflict and ambiguity as the primary factors that constrain the realisation of a first-best design. Because of ambiguous models of development and intense political contestations about development goals and instruments, policies activate 'focal goals' that privileges specific goals that are likely to be attained over others within a goal system. The mechanism of goal focalisation generates a variety of 'second-best policy design' depending on the variations in policy ambiguity and conflict.Building on the extensive work of development scholars and practitioners, the thesis derives four types of second-best policy design: administrative design, experimental design, political design and symbolic design. The differences in the levels of ambiguity and conflict generate propositions about the nature of the policy's goal system and its effectiveness. These propositions were tested through an embedded case study of development policies in the Philippines, a large middle-income country that is stereotypically confronted by conflict and ambiguity in policymaking. The four cases were sampled based on fit to the theoretical expectation. Drawn largely from an analysis of policy documents, goal systems were visualised using causal diagrams to identify focal goals and identify causes for why only certain goals were attained by the policy.The thesis engages with literature on policy design and development studies. The findings complement the traditional focus of policy design on policy instruments by expounding on how goals can undermine effectiveness. By providing a longitudinal, historically-informed analysis of contemporary design, it offers a way to correct the 'snap-shot' bias of policy design studies. It further links the poor performance of development policies with design issues to shift discussions away from implementation failures. The thesis hopes invigorate a more careful consideration of policy goals in policy design in future research.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798352681503Subjects--Topical Terms:

3561225
Failure.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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