1. DAAD
Webinar
Public
Policy
and
Good
Governance
-­‐-­‐challenges
in
the
MENA
Region–
DAAD
WEBINAR
PUBLIC
POLICY
AND
GOOD
GOVERNANCE
CHALLENGES
IN
THE
MENA
REGION
Prof.
Florian
Hoffmann
Franz
Haniel
Chair
of
Public
Policy
Willy
Brandt
School
of
Public
Policy
University
of
Erfurt
(Germany)
h"p://www.brandtschool.de/the-­‐school/full-­‐6me-­‐academic-­‐staff/prof-­‐dr-­‐florian-­‐hoffmann.html

2. Introduc6on
&
Programme
1. Raw
Materials:
States,
Markets
&
Civil
Socie6es
2. Policy
Space
and
Policy
Time:
Global
Problems
&
Local
Solu6ons
3. Knowing
the
Problem
–
Engineering
the
Solu6on:
Science
v.
Interests
v.
Ideologies
4. The
Policy
Dilemma:
Technocracy
v.
Democracy
5. Working
With
Con6ngency:
Public
Policy
in
Transi6on
&
Post-­‐
Conflict
Environments
DAAD
WEBINAR
6. Open
Session
PUBLIC
POLICY
AND
GOOD
GOVERNANCE
CHALLENGES
IN
THE
MENA
REGION

3. • What
is
Public
Policy
?
– “The
authorita6ve
statements
or
ac6ons
of
government
which
reflect
the
decisions,
values,
or
goals
of
policymakers.”
(Wilson)
– “a
set
of
inter-­‐related
decisions
taken
by
a
poli6cal
actor
or
group
of
actors
concerning
the
selec6on
of
goals
and
the
means
of
achieving
them
within
a
specified
situa6on
where
those
decisions
should,
in
principle,
be
within
the
power
of
those
actors
to
achieve”
(Jenkins)
– “The
combina6on
of
basic
decisions,
commitments,
and
ac6ons
made
by
those
who
hold
or
affect
government
posi6ons
of
authority.”
(Gerston)
DAAD
WEBINAR
PUBLIC
POLICY
AND
GOOD
– “What
governments
do.”
(Dye)
GOVERNANCE
CHALLENGES
IN
THE
MENA
REGION

4. • What
is
Governance
?
• “Method
through
which
power
is
exercised
in
the
management
of
a
country’s
poli6cal,
economic
and
social
resources
for
development”
(World
Bank).
• “the
exercise
of
economic,
poli6cal
and
administra6ve
authority
to
manage
a
country’s
affairs
at
all
levels.
It
comprises
the
mechanisms,
processes
and
ins6tu6ons
through
which
ci6zens
and
groups
ar6culate
their
interests,
exercise
their
legal
rights,
meet
their
obliga6ons
and
mediate
their
differences”
(UNDP).
• “governance
refers
to
sustaining
coordina6on
and
coherence
among
a
wide
variety
of
actors
with
different
purposes
and
objec6ves”
(Pierre)
DAAD
WEBINAR
PUBLIC
POLICY
AND
GOOD
• What
is
Public
Value
Public
?
GOVERNANCE
CHALLENGES
IN
THE
MENA
REGION
– “Crea6ng
public
value
means
producing
enterprises,
policies,
programs,
projects,
services,
or
infrastructures
that
advance
the
public
interest
and
the
common
good
at
a
reasonable
cost”
(Bryson)

5. • What
is
Public
Policy
Analysis
?
– mul6-­‐disciplinary—policy
sciences
would
break
from
the
narrow
study
of
poli6cal
ins6tu6ons
and
structures
and
embrace
the
work
and
findings
of
fields
such
as
sociology,
economics,
law
and
poli6cs
– norma6ve—policy
science
should
not
be
cloaked
in
the
guise
of
“scien6fic
objec6vity”,
but
should
recognize
the
impossibility
of
separa6ng
goals
and
means,
or
values
and
techniques,
in
the
study
of
government
ac6ons
– problem
solving—policy
science
would
adhere
to
a
strict
DAAD
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canon
of
relevance,
orien6ng
itself
towards
the
solu6on
of
PUBLIC
POLICY
AND
GOOD
real
world
problems
and
not
engaging
in
purely
academic
and
GOVERNANCE
CHALLENGES
IN
THE
ofen
sterile
debates
MENA
REGION

6. • Issues
and
Lead
QuesOons
of
Public
Policy
Analysis
– Differences
in:
• Ideology/poli6cs
• Time
• Scale
• Loca6on
– Comparisons
based
upon:
• Efficacy
• Appropriateness
– How
to
differen6ate
fashion
from
applicable
principles
DAAD
WEBINAR
– Which
dis6nc6ons
between
public
&
private
sectors
are
PUBLIC
POLICY
significant
AND
GOOD
GOVERNANCE
CHALLENGES
IN
THE
– Where
to
differen6ate
“service
to
clients”
from
“the
public
MENA
REGION
interest”
– Understanding
how
to
use
prac6ces
of
centralisa6on/
decentralisa6on;
devolu6on;
integra6on;
subsidiarity

7. Genesis
of
the
Public
Policy
Stage I
Feedback
Development
on
the
of
the
Public
Public
Stage IV Stage II
Policy
Policy
DAAD
WEBINAR
PUBLIC
POLICY
Stage III
AND
GOOD
GOVERNANCE
CHALLENGES
IN
THE
MENA
REGION
Implementa6on
of
the
Public
Policy

8. • The
Willy
Brandt
School
Approach
to
public
policy
purposely
seeks
to
go
beyond
the
provision
of
technocra6c
exper6se
and
instead
to
endow
its
students
with
a
mul6-­‐disciplinary
analy6cal
toolkit
through
which
they
are
able
to
understand
the
func6onal
logics
behind
poli6cal,
social,
and
economic
processes
in
a
diversity
of
opera6onal
theatres.
The
horizon
here
is
neither
limited
to
the
mature
democracies,
nor
to
elite
decision-­‐making,
but
encompasses
the
global
North
and
the
global
South,
state
administra6on
and
non-­‐state
DAAD
WEBINAR
governance,
law,
poli6cs,
and
economics.
PUBLIC
POLICY
AND
GOOD
GOVERNANCE
CHALLENGES
IN
THE
MENA
REGION

9. • The
Current
Global
Policy
Landscape
– The
state
is
today
but
one
among
several
relevant
global
actors,
alongside
mul6na6onal
corpora6ons,
organized
civil
society,
world
public
opinion,
insurgent
or
‘terrorist’
groupings,
and
even
(some)
interna6onal
organiza6ons.
And
its
law
is
complemented
by
transna6onal
norma6ve
regimes,
such
as
the
notorious
lex
mercatoria,
and
hybrid
legal
forms,
such
as
those
found
in
the
ever
growing
field
of
investment
arbitra6on.
Tradi6onal
party-­‐
based
representa6ve
democracy,
too,
no
longer
enjoys
a
monopoly
over
the
provision
of
par6cipa6on,
accountability
and
transparency,
or,
in
other
words,
legi6macy,
but
is
challenged
by
parallel
mechanisms
that
transcend
the
state
and
its
model
of
all-­‐encompassing
administra6on
–
the
poli6cal
dynamics
unleased
by
YouTube,
Wikileaks
and
Twi"er,
but
also
by
the
DAAD
WEBINAR
resurgence
of
grass-­‐roots
ac6vism
a
la
Stu"gart
21,
tes6fy
to
PUBLIC
POLICY
this
development.
Even
that
other
great
regulatory
device
of
AND
GOOD
GOVERNANCE
tradi6onal
statehood,
strategic
military
power,
is
undergoing
CHALLENGES
IN
THE
MENA
REGION
profound
changes
in
light
of
severe
budget
constraints
and
en6rely
new
objec6ves
for
military
interven6on.

10. – What
is
more,
not
just
is
the
role
of
states
changing
vis-­‐a-­‐vis
non-­‐state
actors,
but
the
geopoli6cal
balance
among
states
has
become
fluid,
too.
The
‘West’
with
its
geographic
centre
in
the
so
called
Old
and
New
World,
Europe
and
North
America,
is
gradually
loosing
its
poli6cal,
economic,
and
military
predominance,
or,
at
the
very
least,
has
to
adapt
to
be
just
one
part
of
a
larger
peer
group
that
includes
emerging
states
such
as
Brazil,
Russia,
India,
or
China,
that
is,
the
BRIC
states,
and
several
more.
Internal
governance
in
these
states
differs
significantly
from
the
tradi6onal
‘Western’
model,
and,
of
course,
from
each
other,
yet
the
6mes
are
over
when
the
‘West’
could
simply
understand
these
as
being
in
a
process
of
clear-­‐cut
transforma6on
to
Western
liberal
democracy,
free
or
social
market
economy,
and
rule-­‐of-­‐law
based
public
administra6on.
The
ways
in
which
state
and
society,
government
and
market,
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poli6cs
and
law
interact
and
the
ways
in
which
legi6macy
is
produced
in
these
states
represent
an
ofen
difficult
to
decipher
PUBLIC
POLICY
AND
GOOD
mix
of
adapta6ons
of
Western
idealtypes
and
en6rely
different
GOVERNANCE
CHALLENGES
IN
THE
forms
of
governance.
MENA
REGION

11. • The
(NaOon)
State
– ‚Marriage‘
of
• naOon
(cultural
idenOty)
• territorial
administraOve
unit
QUESTIONS:
• Is
the
State
withering
away,
is
it
changing
its
role
or
is
it
experiencing
a
renaissance
?
• What
is
the
role
of
democracy
in
state-­‐
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buidling
/
state-­‐formaOon
?
What
‚couts‘
as
PUBLIC
POLICY
AND
GOOD
democracy
?
GOVERNANCE
CHALLENGES
IN
THE
MENA
REGION

12. • Markets
– transnaOonal
exchange
of
good/services
– compeOOon
– ‚new
form
of
regulaOon‘
&
organizaOonal
principle
 UESTIONS
Q
• ‚Who‘
is
the
market
in
different
(MENA)
countries
?
DAAD
WEBINAR
PUBLIC
POLICY
• What
are
the
economic
prospects
of
the
AND
GOOD
GOVERNANCE
CHALLENGES
IN
THE
region
?
• Is
markeOzaOon
used
as
a
regulatory
MENA
REGION
principle
in
the
region
?

13. • Civil
SocieOes
– public
sphere
(collecOve)
v.
private
sphere
(individual)
– interest-­‐oriented,
cause-­‐guided,
non-­‐profit
 UESTIONS
Q
• ‚Who‘
is
civil
society
in
the
region
?
• What
are
the
primary
concerns
of
civil
society
?
DAAD
WEBINAR
PUBLIC
POLICY
• Is
religion
part
of
civil
society
?
AND
GOOD
GOVERNANCE
CHALLENGES
IN
THE
MENA
REGION

14. The
MENA
Region
&
Governance
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AND
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GOVERNANCE
CHALLENGES
IN
THE
MENA
REGION

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CHALLENGES
IN
THE
MENA
REGION
Maps
by
Phillipe
Rekacewicz,
Le
Monde
Diploma.que