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Policy learning type shifts during creeping crises: A storyboard of COVID-19 driven learning in Belgium KU Leuven Ghent University
The politics of evaluation KU Leuven
This chapter focuses on the evaluation of public policy and administration. Institutionalized for decades in many places worldwide, policy evaluation has become a routinized and professionalized activity. However, assessing the performance of public agencies and the impact of the policies they implement is a highly political endeavor. As part of the executive branch and directly subordinate to governments, public agencies can be scrutinized and ...
Belgium: Struggling with Solidarity KU Leuven
Polder Politics Under Pressure: The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in the Netherlands KU Leuven
Academic policy advice in consensus-seeking countries: the cases of Belgium and Germany KU Leuven
Research on policy-advisory systems worldwide has shown that historically dominant sources of advice traditionally located in-house to the government have been increasingly supplemented by other actors and outside knowledge. However, the vast majority of research has concentrated on the anglophone context. Yet, countries with a consensus-seeking, neo-corporatist tradition provide a special case in terms of policy advice and merit more scholarly ...
How to Research Independent Children’s Rights Institutions: Lessons Learned from the Evaluation of the Dutch Children’s Ombudsman KU Leuven
Under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, states have the obligation to implement and monitor children’s rights. A key element thereof is the creation of independent national institutions for the promotion and protection of children rights (independent children’s rights institutions – ICRIs). All over the world a wide variety of such institutions can be found. In this chapter, the authors aim at providing a broader understanding of how ...
Formal Agenda-Setting Government Tools: Periodic Evaluations and Reviews KU Leuven
This chapter reviews the agenda-setting potential and influence of a particular group of evaluation-related tools governments often resort to in the agenda-setting stage. Particular evaluation tools play an important analytical role in setting up and managing the agendas of governments. The chapter discusses the agenda-setting role of three in-house tools: budget reviews, policy reviews, and sunset reviews. It also discusses their major ...