Designing a model for promoting policy making capacity in Iranian public administration: a mixed method design

The emergence of new issues and complexity of them, involve formulating and implementing intelligent policies in government. Therefore,the concept of policy capacity has been emerged in different dimensions of governance. Promoting the policy-making capacity ofgovernment, means the ability of government in identification of issues, formulating of high quality and convenience policies and coordinatingof policymaking process. In this regards, This Research is going to design a model to explore the different elements of policymakingcapacity in government. Therefore, drawing upon mixed method design, in the first step by using semi-structured interview, many datawas collect and in a recursive way, the core categories of policymaking capacity extracted and named. According to model, the institutionalfactors, policy-making infrastructure, policymaking capability, and interaction with environment, recognized as a causal conditionfor policymaking capacity. In addition, in our grounded theory model, the category of good policymaking considered as a strategy forcore category (policymaking capacity). In addition, the intervening variables and contextual conditions in implementing good policymakingstrategy in government extracted and named. The categories of organizational and managerial capacity along with extra role capacityof policy maker constitute the intervening condition of government. Contextual conditions that influence in good policymaking strategywere named in five categories of international, social, political, economic, and technological conditions. Finally, the consequences of implementing good policy making in government were named in three categories of governmental consequence, national consequence andpolicy maker consequence. In the second phase of the research, all parts of the policy making capacity theory, using structural equationmodel were tested in AMOS graph 18. Research Results Show Significance of Measurement and Structural Models at the 0.95 ConfidenceLevel

کلیدواژه ها:

capacity ، policy making capacity ، institutional factors ، good policy making ، grounded theory