Policy assessment
The state of the art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21153552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Camilla Adelle (0000-0003-4500-0496, University of East Anglia, corresponding author), Sabine Weiland (0000-0002-3795-3046, Freie Universität Berlin) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-33 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-5517 • E-ISSN: 1471-5465 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14615517.2012.663256 |
| OpenAlex | W2156856942 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
| References cited | 38 |
Policy assessment has spread rapidly around the world in the last few decades providing an opportunity for further innovation and understanding in the way in which assessment is conceived, practised and researched. The extension of assessment from project and programme level to policy level was in part intended to improve its effectiveness by moving the focus of study upstream in the policy-making process. This paper reflects on the state of the art in policy assessment. It illustrates how the diffusion of policy assessment has led not to one standard ‘correct’ way of conducting policy assessment but to a great deal of diversity in how policy assessment is practised as well as researched and even theorized. Although the ‘textbook’ concept and everyday practices of policy assessment are based on a traditional rational linear concept of policy-making, policy assessment has become the latest arena for post-positivist conceptions of policy-making and assessment to resurface. This paper suggests that the future agenda for both research and practices could – indeed should – attempt to straddle these two theoretical approaches
Business · Economics · Engineering ethics · Impact assessment · Management science · Policy analysis · Political science · Positivism · Straddle · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Ombudsman and Human Rights · Public Administration
The policy-relevancy of impact assessment tools
A Call for Establishing a Public Policy for Mitigating the Effects of Dementia on Modern Workplaces
Proposed Legislation to Mine Brazil's Indigenous Lands Will Threaten Amazon Forests and Their Valuable Ecosystem Services
A framework for assessing the social impact of design
Differences between policy assessment & policy evaluation; a case study on supportive policies for knowledge-based firms
Evaluating international AI skills policy
A quantitative evaluation of water resource management policies in China based on the PMC index model
Retracted Article
How do the implementations of regulatory impact analysis perform on sustainable development? Investigating the OECD countries through data envelopment analysis
The state of the art of impact assessment in 2012
Investigating the effectiveness of mandatory integration of health impact assessment within environmental impact assessment (EIA)
Challenges to integrating planning and policy-making with environmental assessment on a regional scale – a multi-institutional perspective
Climate change impact assessment
Principles for ethical research involving humans
Evaluation of environmental impact assessment effectiveness in Slovakia
Sexual orientation and gender identity in human rights impact assessment
Structure-instrument-efficacy
Complex system policy modelling approaches for policy advice – comparing systems thinking, system dynamics and agent-based modelling
Tackling transformational change in climate policy appraisal
Knowledge brokerage context factors – What matters in knowledge exchange in impact assessment
Practising environmental policy evaluation under co-existing evaluation imaginaries
Policy Coherence for Development in the European Union
Measuring Sustainable Urban Development
Governing time for sustainability
Current Status and Prospects of Digital Development Policies in China’s Vocational Education
Untangling the interactions of sustainability targets
Dealing with impact. An interdisciplinary, multi-site ethnography of environmental impact assessment in the coastal zone
Integration of environmental assessment with planning and policy-making on a regional scale
Better policy to support climate change action in the built environment
A knowledge brokerage approach for assessing the impacts of the setting up young farmers policy measure in Greece
Impact assessment
Reflecting on mainstreaming through environmental appraisal in times of financial crisis — From ‘greening’ to ‘pricing’
Quality of federal level strategic environmental assessment – A case study analysis for transport, transmission grid and maritime spatial planning in Germany
A call for strategic assessments of regional applications of solar radiation management
Advancing the theory and practice of impact assessment
Analysis of the decision-support function of policy assessment in real-world policy making in the field of poverty and social inequalities. Case study on migrant integration policies in the Brussels-Capital Region
Mainstreaming ecosystem services in European policy impact assessment
L'émergence de l'étude d'impact comme norme de gouvernance en Europe
Introducing a digital tool for sustainability impact assessments within the German Federal Government
Sur le terrain de l'océanographie politique
Rationality and effectiveness
Evidence-based policy-making in Europe
A critical review of the dominant lines of argumentation on the need for strategic environmental assessment
A goal oriented indicator framework to support integrated assessment of new policies for agri-environmental systems
The production and use of knowledge in regulatory impact assessment – An empirical analysis
On the accuracy of regulatory cost estimates
Bridging the gap between theory and practice in integrated assessment
Re-evaluating Sustainability Assessment
Theorising strategic environmental assessment
Are impact assessment procedures actually promoting sustainable development? Institutional perspectives on barriers and opportunities found in the Swedish committee system
Better Regulation in Europe
The Role of Assessments and Institutions for Policy Learning
The use and non-use of policy appraisal tools in public policy making
Measuring policy learning
Hard Questions, Hard Solutions
Regulatory Impact Assessment
The Policy and Politics of Policy Appraisal
Diffusion without convergence
Whither better regulation for the Lisbon agenda
Regulating Rule‐Making via Impact Assessment
The diffusion of regulatory impact analysis – Best practice or lesson‐drawing
Joining up or Pulling Apart? The Use of Appraisal to Coordinate Policy Making for Sustainable Development
Rationalising the Policy Mess? Ex Ante Policy Assessment and the Utilisation of Knowledge in the Policy Process
New Agendas for Appraisal
| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,86 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 39 |