Identifying and selecting the characteristics of a suitable policy laboratory for the executive branch of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Doctoral student, Department of Management, Public Administration, Policy Making and Public Decision Making, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

2 Professor, Department of Management, public Administration, Faculty of Management and Faculty Governance, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3 Associate Professor, Department of Management, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The policy laboratory consists of teams, institutions and structures specializing in the design of public policies and involves all stakeholders in the design process using innovative methods. The policies in the laboratory can be considered like the laying of rails, indicating the direction of all the movements and behaviors of the studied governance system.

Among the types of public policies, the policies of the executive branch have a tangible reflection on people's lives.

Based on this, the aim of the current research is to design a superior laboratory system for the continuous testing of the policies of the executive branch of the Islamic Republic of Iran with a qualitative approach, and it tries to select the characteristics of a suitable policy laboratory for the executive branch.

The current research is of an applied type and in terms of method, descriptive-survey, and its main strategy is the comparative study of various policy laboratories suitable for the executive branch of the country of I.R.I.

The community of experts in the current research is 20 scientific and executive experts who used the snowball method and targeted statistics and semi-structured interviews were used to collect information.

The results of the current research, in addition to identifying the four basic approaches of the living laboratory, data-based policy making, behavioral insight and serious game approach, the structure of the policy laboratory of the executive branch according to the diversity of issues in a decentralized (divergent) manner and with active participation in the field explains various.

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Strategic Studies of public policy
Volume 13, Issue 46
May 2023
Pages 124-141

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