In the early stage, Lasswellian policy analysis was overtly value-oriented, stressing that the goal of policy analysis and policy analysts should be to improve the state of human wellbeing, democracy, the rule of law, human rights, the respect for human dignity and individual choice. However, policy analysis has since evolved in many directions. One of them is the instrumentalisation of policy analysis in its broader transnational social and political contexts. This paper will focus on the role of policy analysis in the latest wave of democratisation and the introduction of capitalist economics to post-communist countries, especially those involved in the European integration process.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 30438493The member of project group provides a horough analysis of state measures in the field of youth policy by primarily focussing on aspects of youth sustainability. He also provides a revision of current state measures and recommends potential new one that would grasp the field in a more successful manner.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 254265088This book is not about the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) per se. Rather, it examines OMC practices as they are perceived and implemented in a particular EU member state: Slovenia. Thus, OMC processes are studied in a reallife environment, where national policy actors are simultaneously involved in a multitude of concurrent international policy cooperation processes. Furthermore, the particular OMC and OMC-type processes are placed in the context of their historical policy setting and in the context of the extent of Slovenia`s involvement both in EU`s hard and soft policymaking.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 254037504Members of the Slovenian research team and external collaborators internationally recognised researchers – both presented their work at the conference. Videoconferencing technology enabled the University of Exeter to participate in the conference as well, particularly their leading scholar in the field – Professor Claudio Radaelli.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 29730397Taking into consideration the theoretical presumptions of new (soft) modes of governance and Europeanisation processes, the aim of this paper is to identify the potential of the OMC to promote the participation of civil society in the policy fields of employment and education in Slovenia. To achieve this aim, we conducted two case studies, one from each policy field: active ageing in the framework of employment policy and lifelong learning (with special emphasis on adult education) in the framework of education policy. In this paper we hypothesise that various EU and domestic factors determine the role that civil society plays in the OMC processes. We assume that key EU factors include the arrangement of the respective policy field at the supranational level and the introduction of different OMC instruments, while key domestic factors include the domestic structure in the respective policy field and civil society’s capabilities in terms of personal, financial and information resources which enable civil society’s (in)active engagement in OMC processes. In our opinion all these factors provide different opportunities for the participation of civil society and variously stimulate their own interest in participating.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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