Navigating challenges in policy development: addressing political, institutional, and cultural challenges
Policy development is a structured and systematic process fundamental to organizational and governmental operations. It involves identifying problems, setting objectives, exploring alternatives, selecting actions, implementing plans, and evaluating outcomes. This approach ensures alignment with orga...
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Fernando Martins De Bulhão
2024
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| description | Policy development is a structured and systematic process fundamental to organizational and governmental operations. It involves identifying problems, setting objectives, exploring alternatives, selecting actions, implementing plans, and evaluating outcomes. This approach ensures alignment with organizational goals and values, promoting fairness, equality, and risk management. Policies, categorized into distributive, regulatory, constituent, and redistributive types, address societal needs, from resource allocation to regulatory controls, government structure, and social justice. The development and implementation of policies face significant challenges, including political dynamics, such as the influence of various actors and political instability, complicating policy consistency and effectiveness. Institutional constraints like bureaucratic inertia, fragmented responsibilities, and corruption hinder policy innovation and execution. Resource constraints, both financial and human, limit policy scope and effectiveness, especially in resource-constrained settings. Social and cultural factors, including public opinion and cultural diversity, necessitate culturally sensitive and inclusive policies for broad acceptance and efficacy. Technical challenges, such as data reliability and access, impede informed decision-making and policy evaluation. Ethical and legal considerations are critical for balancing stakeholder needs and ensuring legal compliance. Overcoming these multifaceted barriers requires collaboration, robust data systems, stakeholder engagement, and a commitment to ethical and inclusive policy-making for sustainable and equitable outcomes. |
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| spelling | upm-1175632025-07-09T08:41:00Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/117563/ Navigating challenges in policy development: addressing political, institutional, and cultural challenges Md Rami, Ahmad Aizuddin Policy development is a structured and systematic process fundamental to organizational and governmental operations. It involves identifying problems, setting objectives, exploring alternatives, selecting actions, implementing plans, and evaluating outcomes. This approach ensures alignment with organizational goals and values, promoting fairness, equality, and risk management. Policies, categorized into distributive, regulatory, constituent, and redistributive types, address societal needs, from resource allocation to regulatory controls, government structure, and social justice. The development and implementation of policies face significant challenges, including political dynamics, such as the influence of various actors and political instability, complicating policy consistency and effectiveness. Institutional constraints like bureaucratic inertia, fragmented responsibilities, and corruption hinder policy innovation and execution. Resource constraints, both financial and human, limit policy scope and effectiveness, especially in resource-constrained settings. Social and cultural factors, including public opinion and cultural diversity, necessitate culturally sensitive and inclusive policies for broad acceptance and efficacy. Technical challenges, such as data reliability and access, impede informed decision-making and policy evaluation. Ethical and legal considerations are critical for balancing stakeholder needs and ensuring legal compliance. Overcoming these multifaceted barriers requires collaboration, robust data systems, stakeholder engagement, and a commitment to ethical and inclusive policy-making for sustainable and equitable outcomes. Fernando Martins De Bulhão 2024 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_nc_sa_4 http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/117563/1/117563.pdf Md Rami, Ahmad Aizuddin (2024) Navigating challenges in policy development: addressing political, institutional, and cultural challenges. Transactions on Sustainable Social Sciences Letters, 2 (2). pp. 56-69. ISSN 2993-9585 https://www.fmdbpub.com/user/journals/article_details/FTSSSL/235 10.69888/ftsssl.2024.000220 |
| spellingShingle | Md Rami, Ahmad Aizuddin Navigating challenges in policy development: addressing political, institutional, and cultural challenges |
| title | Navigating challenges in policy development: addressing political, institutional, and cultural challenges |
| title_full | Navigating challenges in policy development: addressing political, institutional, and cultural challenges |
| title_fullStr | Navigating challenges in policy development: addressing political, institutional, and cultural challenges |
| title_full_unstemmed | Navigating challenges in policy development: addressing political, institutional, and cultural challenges |
| title_short | Navigating challenges in policy development: addressing political, institutional, and cultural challenges |
| title_sort | navigating challenges in policy development: addressing political, institutional, and cultural challenges |
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