Our CITADEL partner, Latvijas Universitate by Romans Putans, presented the paper "The feasibility study of innovative public policy client" at IAAS Study Group on Co-Production of Public Services in Leuven on 27-28 May 2019.

1. 1
THE FEASIBILITY STUDY OF INNOVATIVE PUBLIC
POLICY CLIENT-ACCORDANCE INDEX
Romans Putans, Dr.sc.admin.
University of Latvia, Centre for European and Transition Studies

2. Outline
1. Changes and necessities leading to it
2. The idea for a solution
3. Main findings
4. Main challenges
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3. 3
Things are clearly changing
Globalization
ICT
Digital
economy
Shared
economy
International
trade
Labour
market
Social norms
(e.g. on youth)
Data
Science
Recourses
consumption
UUBI
Education
Banks
Population growth
Security
State. Global. Human.
Welfare
state
Technology
Social state
Business
Opportunities
Bureaucracry
Regulations
Market
Competitiveness
Welfare
Politics
EU
Education
R&D
Economy
Environment
ICT
Shared
economy
International
trade
Labour
market
Bitcoin
any-crypto-coin
Population growth
Economics
Crowdfunding
Social values

4. 4
Changing societal governance
What is the new subject of social governance apart from state and market?

5. 5
Changing societal governance
• Client, Customer, Co-producer
• Client-orientation
• Public value
• Private value

6. 6
Social contract

7. 7
Policy client-accordance index
Assessment
factors
Assessment
factors` mean
value
(survey)
Assessment
factors`
importance value
(survey)
Significance Ratio
(Mean Estimation of
Importance Factor)
Weighted
average factor
rating
Proportion of
the maximum
possible
value of the
factor,%
Set
Surveyed /
Calculated
Surveyed /
Calculated
Calculated Calculated Calculated
Latvian Youth Policy client-accordance index 40,64%
F – Policy Accordance Index, PCAX;
i – statement or factor used in the calculation;
Fi – the weighted average of the factor i, expressed as % of the possible
maximum value of factor i;
xi – i-factor`s individual assessment;
xi – arithmetic mean of the factor i;
wi – i factor importance value.
wi– arithmetic mean of the significance of the factor i;
maxi – maximum possible factor i evaluation;
n – number of respondents in the study;
m – number of factors used in the calculation.
• Public value
• Private value

8. 8
Principal methodology
and main challenges

9. 9
Methodology development,
To-do`s
and challenges.
1. Unravel the policy plans and expected results
(wants rather then gains)
2. Set the assessment factors (ad-hoc tailor-made mostly)
3. Collect beneficiaries` data
»Big data possibilities; Clients` profiling; Secondary data; Survey
4. Interpretation, Indexing, Education
5. Selling the index
»Social science commercialization
»Benefits for business

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THE FEASIBILITY STUDY OF INNOVATIVE PUBLIC POLICY CLIENT-
ACCORDANCE INDEX PCAX
Romans Putans, Dr.sc.admin.
University of Latvia, Centre for European and Transition Studies
romans.putans@gmail.com, romans.putans@lu.lv, +37129442854
Thank you.