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This research aims to demonstrate the need for an economic evaluation of the Organic Law 3/2020, of 29 December, which amends Organic Law 2/2006, of 3 May, on Education (LOMLOE), especially after the investment of EU Next Generation funds that open new opportunities that were lacking in the initial drafting of the law. The challenge for Public Administrations is to use this additional investment efficiently. Our analysis shows that artificial intelligence models can predict whether educational support programmes will help increase the likelihood that students who lag behind will pass the 4th grade of ESO. In this way, we can calculate the social return of these programmes and contribute to their ex-ante design to achieve higher success rates for students. To complement the models already used by public administrations, we use robust Machine Learning (ML) models such as CHAID decision trees and artificial neural networks to analyse the characteristics of the groups of students and the intervention they have been part of. The conclusions allow us to improve educational reinforcement programmes in the coming years to support students with lower chances of academic success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article constitutes an attempt to approach the evaluation of a public policy using the methodology and concepts of public policy analysis. For this, and from the scientific method of analysis, the level of execution or fulfillment of objectives of the public policy followed in the Autonomous Community of Galicia for the management of the Iberian wolf in its interaction and impact with human activity has been reviewed. The ultimate reason for this article is to operationalize goal 16 of the 2030 agency regarding the maintenance of biodiversity, using the analysis of public policies, thus avoiding judgment or opinions and seeking the protection of the fully validated scientific method. In its concretion, the regional government objectives of the Galician government have been reviewed regarding the public policy of management of the Iberian wolf species –called «Plan del lobo de Galicia»–, the actions carried out and the objectives achieved, in its multiple dimensions effectiveness, efficiency or impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Despite the increasing institutionalization of public policy as a field of study, there has been little reflection on the teaching in this field. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the characterization of public policy teaching in Colombia based on the case of a handbook-type text on public policy. A citation analysis was carried out and surveys applied to students and graduates of a master program in public policy. A rationalistic oriented use of the book was identified, with a focus on the implementation phase at different territorial levels. The popularization of the field and the operational definition of public policy are some of the main contributions of the book. The profile of the public policy apprentice was identified and some opportunities and challenges are outlined in the end. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Simon (1976) argues that public management takes place in a bounded-rationality context, in which time, resources, information and knowledge are always limited resources available for policy decision making. In such context, Executive Evaluation or 'quick evaluation' is an efficient mechanism to support dedecision-making-in-ongoing-processes in an enlightened way; particularly when the goal is to account for the accomplished results (if any), and provide information for 'real-time' program improvement. This article describes an approach to Executive Evaluation. Methodologically it appeals to knowledge held by relevant local actors, as well as the use of simple, adaptive and relevant instruments. It considers the specificity of information needed by decision makers, so that they can have a precise assessment of policy or program performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The analytical tradition of public policies in modernity was basically centered on the investigation of instrumental ends-means actions and systemic strategy. Today, without leaving these aside, researchers are trying to find a point of convergence between these types of action and communication as a paradigm linked to polyarchic decision making, new actors and the full incorporation of discursivity as an element that contributes, from symbolic media, to the ends of developing the social fabric (integration, socialization). In this context, some theoretical-methodological guidelines are proposed regarding rationality and communicative action as emerging paths that facilitate the analysis of public policies (APP). The method is abductive or that of the "going back and forth" between theoretical proposals and the reality of discursive practices in public policies. Conclusions are that: 1. Public policies function in themselves as systems of communicative action in which the "act of language that serves as a means for expressing the link between reason and policy is substantial as a component of the action and not as a simple attribute." 2. The integrated semantic-pragmatic approach is the most effective tool not only for understanding the connections (connectivity) registered interactively among the phases of formulation, implementation and assessment of a PP, but also for identifying the communicational probabilities and improbabilities attributable to the success or failure of the same. 3. The emerging reality of APP is the application of dual models that permit complementarity among different types of rationality. 4. The formulation of strategies for the performance of public policies is an ex-post activity for the communication process that the actors should perform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As an instrument of the Colombian market-led land reform, the Comprehensive Land Subsidy (SIT) provides for land entitlement to poor peasants and smallholders tied to the development of rural production projects, through a communal property regime in certain cases. Through the case study of Sandrana y Samaría, this paper seeks to analyze the extent to which this land reform instrument and its implementation conditions create the necessary framework for productive and community development based on the acquisition of a land title. To that end, the study focuses on the logic of the main aspects of this policy instrument in the context of the Colombian land reform policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article contributes to the understanding of public policies through the proposal and analysis of a new definition of public policy. This definition resulted from an academic exercise led by its author with the participation of various university students from Bogota, complemented by a review of definitions existing in specialised literature. It is divided into three parts. It first justifies the need to provide a new definition that alludes to gaps found in definitions by other authors. Secondly, it outlines the proposed definition, presents considerations about the nature of said definition, and points out some public policy typologies for advancing in understanding the definition. Finally, it analyses the elements that constitute the definition, pointing out major adjustments introduced from class debates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Four are the steps required for the production of a public policy, according to the sequential model suggested by Harold Laswell (1956) and developed by Jones (1970). First of all, it is the definition of the problem and the construction of the agenda. Secondly, it is the formulation, the decision or legitimization, third the implementation, and finally, the evaluation of the public policy. An analysis in the first stage of the public policy production appears in this reflection document. The public policy in health for ethnic groups, with an approach in Human Rights, during the period of the Bogota Mayor Luis Eduardo Garzón, has chosen as study case. A diversity of local, and national, compared rights documents with structured interviews were used, with the intention of identifying the strengths and weakness during the definition of the problem and construction of the local agenda, created in the mayor period 2004-2007, a period characterized mainly by the social programs in favor of the rights and the most vulnerable people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the 1980s, cognitive analysis of public policies has become increasingly fashionable. This paper examines this current in public policy and its relationship to other cognitive sciences such as neurosurgery, cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence. We ask what kinds of theoretical transfer have taken place between these to date. After defining four theories of public-policy analysis as a function of their cognitive content cases of integration of these cognitive sciences within social sciences, we argue that, in most of cases, such analysis does not tend to apply the concepts if cognitive sciences to their field in any real way but rather uses them as metaphors. Nevertheless, in some cases, assumptions of cognitive sciences are used to explain the development of public policy. These cases are extremely interesting since they shed a new light on rationality by proposing an alternative vision of policy change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers a reflection on observed changes in policy making models and highlights the new attitudes by citizens and social groups toward governmental structures. It posits the notorious erosion of legal-bureaucratic rationality and identifies new roles adopted by citizens on the basis of these changes. It also recognizes substantial changes derived from citizen involvement in public action, and anticipates new possibilities for deliberative democracies in developing countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The existence of different policy frames of the problem of inequality can explain the difference in gender equality policies. The argument is based on a research developed within the European Project MAGEEQ, whose theoretical framework and methodology are considered in this article. Results of the comparative analysis of gender equality policy frames in the European Union and six Member States in relation to the issues of reconciliation of work and family life, domestic violence and gender inequality in politics are also discussed. By making explicit the different interpretations of the problem of —and the solution to— inequality that tend to remain implicit in the discourse of policy actors, the analysis seeks to promote a debate on the formulation of equality policies and the inconsistencies of the latter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]