Government Failures and Institutions in Public Policy Evaluation

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1 Government Failures and Institutions in Public Policy Evaluation The Case of Dutch Technology Policy A Ard Schilder V 2000 ^VAN GORCUM

2 Contents Preface 1 Chapter 1 Technology policy and a changed government paradigm 1.1 Introduction Technology: dynamic theoretical and policy developments Technology in economic theory Policy developments A changed government paradigm The "Golden Age" of the old government paradigm The end of the Golden Age and a new government paradigm Research questions Methodology Summary and dissertation outline Summary Dissertation outline 22 Chapter 2 Public choice perspectives on public policy 2.1 Introduction Bureaucratic behaviour Down's pluralist model of bureaucracy Niskanen's theory on bureaucracy Dunleavy's bureau-shaping model Rent-seeking TheTullock rectangle and beyond The logic and consequences of collective action Possible remedies and critiques Political opportunism The basic argument Empirical issues Public choice and government failures Relevance for central research question 47 Chapter 3 Institutional economic analysis and public policy 3.1 Introduction What is institutional economics? Terminological issues Central concepts in the New Institutional Economics New Institutional Economic analysis The micro-analytic perspective The macro-analytic perspective An integrated institutional economic framework 60

3 3.4 Institutional Economic analysis and government Government in the institutional environment approach The public sector as governance structure of last resort Principal-agent theory and public policy Transaction cost politics New institutional political economy Institutional economic analysis and public policy Relevance for technology policy in the Netherlands 76 Chapter 4 The New Public Management 4.1 Introduction New Public Management versus the traditional public administration paradigm Mission, goals and strategy in the New Public Management Focus on results and performance measurement Attention for external relations The New Public Management and its critics Private management theory and economics in the analysis of the public sector The empirical basis of the New Public Management Examples of the application of the New Public Management paradigm General developments in the public management of OECD countries The new style government budget in the Netherlands New Public Management and Public Choice New Public Management and Institutional Economics Summary 95 Chapter 5 A changed government paradigm and the evaluation of public policy 5.1 Introduction The starting point: government failures and (institutional) remedies The establishment of clear and unitary policy goals Performance related reward systems Competition in the implementation of public policies A balanced review system Complexity and remediability Complexity in public policy Remediability Government failures, transactions and institutions in public policy Policy goals and governance The implementation of public policy and governance Ill Other governance structures Evaluating technology policy in the Netherlands 115 Chapter 6 Technology policy in the Netherlands 6.1 Introduction General background and developments in technology policy The origins of technology policy in the Netherlands Towards a more market-oriented approach Technology policy as policy for economic change and competitiveness 124

4 6.3 Survey of main organisations, instruments and expenditures Survey of main organisations in Dutch technology policy Survey of main instruments of technology policy Technology policy expenditures Summary and some preliminary conclusions Summary Some preliminary conclusions 140 Chapter 7 Evaluation of technology policy in the Netherlands 7.1 Introduction Evaluations commissioned by government organisations The reports of the Dekker Committee Evaluations.from the RAWB and AWT Evaluation of the WBSO Dutch technology policy in a European context Report of the Netherlands Court of Audit Academic Evaluations Innovation and government policy The technology race Instruments of technology policy Theoretical basis and focus of technology policy Science and technology policy Technology policy in the Netherlands Recurring issues Existing evaluations compared to our evaluation framework Summary and conclusions 163 Chapter 8 Complexity and remediability in Dutch technology policy 8.1 Introduction Complexity, remediability and policy goals Information from the literature and policy documents Complexity with respect to policy goals as perceived by policymakers Conclusions on the complexity and remediability involved in setting policy goalsl Complexity, remediability and the implementations of Dutch technology policy Information from the literature and policy documents The complexity of implementation as perceived by policymakers Conclusions on complexity, remediability and policy implementation Complexity, remediability and the 'privilege grating system' Information from the literature and policy documents Complexity of the privilege granting systems perceived by policymakers Conclusions on complexity, remediability and the privilege*grating system Summary and conclusions 183 Chapter 9 Summary and Conclusions 9.1 Introduction Summary Conclusions on the propositions of chapters 2 and in

5 9.4 Public Choice, Institutional Economics, New Public Management and the evaluation of public policy Public Choice and the evaluation of public policy Institutional Economics and the evaluation of public policy New Public Management and the evaluation of public policy A combined framework and the evaluation of public policy The theories of the new government paradigm and evolutionary approaches Recommendations Recommendations concerning Dutch technology policy Recommendations concerning the evaluation of Dutch technology policy Recommendations for further research 204