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- Title
VIEŠOSIOS POLITIKOS SPRENDIMŲ POVEIKIO VERTINIMAS LIETUVOJE.
- Authors
DVORAK, JAROSLAV
- Abstract
Traditionally, government has consisted of three systems: budgeting, human resources and auditing. However, the feedback system, which would provide information on the results and outcomes of the government's actions, was missing. The establishment of an impact assessment system became a new accountability and better governance instrument of governments. Nowadays a lot of public sector, business, non-governmental organizations, etc. participants are involved in the process of public policy formation and implementation. The need to assess policy grows when the governments introduce new governance models, such as New Public management or multilevel governance models, and start applying stricter public finance restrictions in order to ground the rationality of governmental interventions. In the case of New Public management, state mechanisms are used together with the new 'partnership' forms of public and private sector, market mechanisms and the 'commercialised' public policy. With the help of impact assessment, the governments get information what is effective in the society, why it is effective or not. Actually, evaluation helps to make better decisions and also, by using specific evaluation approaches, contributes to the reinforcement of democracy, which encourages the participation of citizens, ensures transparency and supports the welfare of the society. The rise of impact assessment in Great Britain and France has often been related to public management reforms. The EU Member States started applying the regulatory impact assessment only in the last decade, and only recently the European Commission began extensively using evaluation of policy effect for public policy. Today policy evaluation is part of European administrative culture and is characteristic of the modern state. Therefore, evaluation is an integral part of rational and up-to-date policy forming and reforming, and, under such circumstances, policy evaluation continually evolves, widens and changes its character. The article examines the regulatory impact assessment in Lithuania. It was found that the regulatory impact assessment in Lithuania is being used systematically, but the analysis shows that the impact analysis itself is fast and primitive. The current methodology of the regulatory impact assessment doesn't provide high-quality information for decision making. There is not impact definition in the methodology, that doesn't allow to provide evidence based positive or negative impacts. The officials used small amount of evidence based sources for grounding their decisions. There isn't evidence of the officials communication with the main stakeholders before the impact assessment process. Aim of research - to evaluate the use of the public policy decisions impact assessment tool in the Lithuanian public management and propose the quality control methodology for the decisions impact assessment explanatory memorandum. According to the research aim the integrated research methodology was used.
- Subjects
LITHUANIA; POLITICAL planning; GOVERNMENT policy; GOVERNMENT accountability; PUBLIC administration; DECISION making
- Publication
Human Resources: The Main Factor of Regional Development, 2011, Issue 4, p25
- ISSN
2029-5103
- Publication type
Article