PUBLIC POLICY GOVERNANCE: SOME INSIGHTS INTO ITS SCOPE AND APPLICATION, STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE LITERATURE

Authors : Vivian Christopher Kapilima

Pages : 27-67

Doi:10.58658/kaypod.1565906

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Publication Date : 2025-03-13

Article Type : Review Paper

Abstract :The innovation of public policy governance (PPG) sparks interest in understanding its po sition in the current literature. Thus, the paper aims to present the scope and extent to which the notion of public policy governance has been applied in scholarly works, together with strengths and weaknesses related to its concep tual formulation and that of the literature. The paper applied qualitative secondary research and documentary analysis. Generally, the findings show that the concept of PPG has been minimal ly applied (15%) in the reviewed contemporary literature thus, suggesting it is still a relatively new field of study despite its initial use in the online literature in 2000. However, despite its minimal use, PPG offers key elements depict ing its reality. Moreover, PPG is conceived as a process and an academic framework and can be applied at the local, regional, national, and global levels. It faces conceptual stretching challenges, overlapping of its elements, and exclusion of its core values. To improve the literature, PPG must cover the scope of the public policy process and the notions of horizontal sharing of power, rules, principles, and norms among the networks of policy stakeholders, as well as ethics, elements of good governance, and instruments for PPG. Adequate debates and empirical exploration of the policy problems associated with the lack of good PPG are encouraged. To minimize the im pacts of PPG’s conceptual challenges, one needs to carefully select a few PPG’s arguments and variables that are measurable and relevant to the proposed study.
Keywords : Public policy, public policy governance, participatory public policy, new public governance, new public management