Public governance general considerations

1. Public Governance:
Some General Considerations
Dr Alberto Asquer

2. Some “big ques-ons” aroung public governance
How can we takle such complex public policy problems as,
for example, the pandemics, climate change, poverty,
depletion of the environment, and unknown dangers and
threats that arise from emerging technologies?

3. Some “big questions” aroung public governance
How can we takle such complex public policy problems as,
for example, the pandemics, climate change, poverty,
depletion of the environment, and unknown dangers and
threats that arise from emerging technologies?
How can we ensure that public policies are made in the
interest of the many rather than of the few?

4. Some “big questions” aroung public governance
How can we takle such complex public policy problems as,
for example, the pandemics, climate change, poverty,
depletion of the environment, and unknown dangers and
threats that arise from emerging technologies?
How can we ensure that public policies are made in the
interest of the many rather than of the few?
Who decides public policies?

5. Public sector management
Public Administration
• dominance of the ‘rule of law’;
• a focus on administering set rules and guidelines;
• a central role for the bureaucracy in policy making
and implementation;
• the ‘politics – administration’ split within public
organizations;
• a commitment to incremental budgeting;
• the hegemony of the professional in the service
delivery system.

6. Public sector management
New Public Management
• attention to lessons from private-sector
management;
• policy implementation organizationally distanced
from the policy makers;
• entrepreneurial leadership;
• inputs and output control, evaluation, performance
management and audit;
• cost management;
• use of markets, competition and contracts for
resource allocation and service.

7. Public sector management
New Public Governance
• ‘self- organizing inter-organizational networks’;
• working of policy communities and networks;
• conditions of the ‘hollow state’
• government's ability to make and enforce rules,
and to deliver services

8. Public sector management
Example: how are water services administered?
https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-17-559

9. Hierarchies, markets and networks

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Hierarchies, markets and networks

11. Hierarchies, markets and networks
Example: what is the role of public authorities, water
utilities and local communities in local water services?
https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-17-559

12. Making public policy

13. The policy cycle
Agenda
setting
Policy
formula7on
Policy
adoption
Policy
implementation
Policy
evauation

14. Institutional analysis and development

15. Institutional analysis and development

16. Decision-making

17. Decision-making
Ra.onal decision-making
Complete information
Exhaustive set of options
Maximisation criterion

18. Decision-making
Rational decision-making
Complete information
Exhaustive set of options
Maximisation criterion
Incomplete
information
Limited set
of options
Satisfying
criterion

19. Decision-making
Rational decision-making
Complete information
Exhaustive set of options
Maximisation criterion
Incomplete
information
Limited set
of options
Satisfying
criterion
Bounded rationality

20. The end