| title: | The role of government commitees as the input from institutional context in the policymaking process. Application of P. Sabatier's advocacy coalition model in Estonian context. |
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| reg no: | ETF5076 |
| project type: | Estonian Science Foundation research grant |
| subject: |
5.7. Political Sciences |
| status: | completed |
| institution: | Tallinn University of Educational Sciences |
| head of project: | Georg Sootla |
| duration: | 01.01.2002 - 31.12.2003 |
| description: | The general aim of the project is to operationalise the problem of governability to promote methods of scientific assessment and prognosis of the mechanisms of governance in Estonia. In the framework of current project this will be done through the prism of the analysis of government commission. Previous research was targeted to the same problem analysed through the prism of politico-administrative dichotomy. We depart from the presumption that in the end of 1980-s the new paradigm of the policy analysis has been developed. This change enabled to analyse the policy process from the viewpoint of impacts of institutional environments. The government commission is the most important channel of this input. The change of paradigm enabled to analyse the feasibility (from the point of view of implementation) and the outcomes of policy already at the stage of policy formulation. Among many theoretical perspectives the P. Sabatier's model of advocacy coalition as the analytical tool was chosen. The reason is that this approach enables to analyse the impacts from environment from the viewpoint of values and norms as well as to analyse the policymaking process from the perspective of cognitive branch of institutional theory. We are going to analyse the government as well as the interministerial commissions. All the information about commissions will be transformed -- through the use of elaborated indicators -- into the format that will enable to apply quantitative analysis. After that the in depth qualitative analysis of typical commissions (from the viewpoint of input) will be undertaken. This will be done through the analysis of commission's minutes and other documents, but as well through the interviews. The project will sum up the multiyear studies of the core executive in Estonia by members of the research group and will result in a book that is intended to be published in English. In practical dimensions the mechanisms of improvement of the capacity of core executive as well as overall governability will be offered for various the areas of policy making. |
| project group | ||||
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| no | name | institution | position | |
| 1. | Annika Anton | Tallinn University of Educational Sciences | PhD student | |
| 2. | Georg Sootla | Tallin University of Pedagogical Sciences | professor of public policy and administration | |
| 3. | Annika Velthut | Tallinn University of Educational Sciences | assistant professor | |