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Evaluating Policy Implementation: The European Union's Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Policies in Galicia and Sardinia

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Evaluating policy implementation involves assessment of the institutional performance of the institutional system in its locale. This paper highlights the importance of local conditions for effective policy implementation. Current literature suggesting that civic culture is an essential precursor to successful institutional performance is rejected, instead it is argued that policies need to be better adapted to local strengths and institutional forms. A mis-match between the policy design, the socio-cultural environment and the institutional structures can lead to problematic institutional performance and implementation outcomes. Insufficient institutional capacity also places strains on institutional performance and implementation capacity. Policies and institutions need to build on the strengths of a locality and be tailored to the prevailing socio-cultural environment for effective policy delivery. Implementation difficulties can be resolved by allowing policy design to better fit the exigencies of local areas, while simultaneously reinforcing regulatory solutions where this can improve implementation capacity. Evaluer la mise en application d'une politique necessite une estimation de la performance des institutions sur place. Cet article cherche a souligner l'importance des conditions locales necessaires a la mise en application efficace d'une politique. La documentation actuelle, qui laisse supposer que la culture civique constitue une variable prealable au succes des institutions, est rejetee. On affirme plutot que les politiques doivent mieux repondre aux atouts locaux et aux formes institutionnelles. Une disparite de la conception de la politique, du milieu socio-culturel et des stuctures institutionnelles pourrait entrainer des problemes pour ce qui est de la performance des institutions et des resultats de la mise en application. Le manque de capacite institutionnelle risque aussi d'avoir un effet nefaste sur la performance institutionnelle et la capacite de mise en application. Pour une mise en application de politique efficace, les politiques et les institutions ont besoin de tirer parti des atouts du milieu local et de s'adapter au climat socio-culturel qui prevaut. Les difficultes de mise en application pourraient se resoudre en autorisant une conception de politique qui repond mieux aux exigences des zones locales, tout en renforcant des solutions de controle la ou il en resulterait une amelioration de la capacite de mise en application. Eine Einschatzung der Durchfuhrung politischer Bestrebungen schliesst die Beurteilung der institutionellen Leistung des institutionellen Systems an seinem Ausfuhrungsort ein. Dieser Aufsatz hebt die Bedeutung ortlicher Verhaltnisse fur eine wirksame Durchfuhrung politischer Bestrebungen hervor. Aktuelle diesbezugliche Literatur, die nahelegt, dass Ortskultur ein wesentlicher Vorlaufer fur erfolgreiche institutionelle Leistung sei, wird verworfen. An ihrer Stelle wird die Behauptung aufgestellt, dass politische Bestrebungen besser an ortliche Starken und institutionelle Formen angepasst werden mussen. Politische Planung, gesellschaftlich-kulturelle Umwelt und institutionelle Strukturen, die schlecht auf einander abgestimmt sind, konnen auf Probleme stossen, wo institutionelle Leistung und Durchfuhrungsergebnisse verlangt werden. Auch ungenugende institutionelle Kapazitat kann zu Spannungen bei institutioneller Leistung und Durchfuhrungskapazitat fuhren. Wenn Grundsatzbestrebungen und Institutionen effektiver werden sollen, mussen sie auf Starken einer Gegend aufbauen und der vorherrschenden, gesellschaftlich kuturellen Umwelt angepasst werden. Probleme bei der Durchfuhrung lassen sich losen, indem man durch bessere Anpassung der Grundsatze den Erfordernissen einer Gegend gerecht wird, doch zugleich behordliche Losungen stutzt, wo dies die Durchfuhrungskapazitat verbessert.

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  • Sarah Batterbury, 2002. "Evaluating Policy Implementation: The European Union's Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Policies in Galicia and Sardinia," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(8), pages 861-876.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:36:y:2002:i:8:p:861-876
    DOI: 10.1080/0034340022000012306
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