Systems approaches to public service delivery: methods and frameworks.

Researchers and practitioners are increasingly embracing systems approaches to deal with the complexity of public service delivery and policy evaluation. However, there is little agreement on what exactly constitutes a systems approach, conceptually or methodologically. We review and critically synt...

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Publicado en:Journal of Public Policy Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 1 - 27
Autores principales: Mansoor, Zahra, Williams, Martin J.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cambridge University Press Jun2024
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          Mansoor, Zahra
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          School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
          Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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        Municipal services
        First-order logic
        Research personnel
        Complexity (Philosophy)
        Evaluation methodology
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          Municipal services
          Other local, municipal and regional public administration
          Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development
          Administration of Housing Programs
          Administration of Public Health Programs
          Administration of Air and Water Resource and Solid Waste Management Programs
          First-order logic
          Research personnel
          Complexity (Philosophy)
          Evaluation methodology
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        complexity
        evidence-based policy
        external validity
        impact evaluation
        implementation science
        systems approaches
        complexity
        evidence-based policy
        external validity
        impact evaluation
        implementation science
        systems approaches
      ab: Researchers and practitioners are increasingly embracing systems approaches to deal with the complexity of public service delivery and policy evaluation. However, there is little agreement on what exactly constitutes a systems approach, conceptually or methodologically. We review and critically synthesize systems literature from the fields of health, education, and infrastructure. We argue that the common theoretical core of systems approaches is the idea that multi-dimensional complementarities between a policy and other aspects of the policy context are the first-order problem of policy design and evaluation. We distinguish between macro-systems approaches, which focus on the collective coherence of a set of policies or institutions, and micro-systems approaches, which focus on how a single policy interacts with the context in which it operates. We develop a typology of micro-systems approaches and discuss their relationship to standard impact evaluation methods as well as to work in external validity, implementation science, and complexity theory.
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