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No. 65 | 27 Oct 2023 |
Steering responses to climate change from the centre of government
This paper takes stock of the institutional set-ups, mechanisms and practices used by governments, and in particular centres of government, to steer climate change policy. To respond effectively to climate change, governments need decision-making and... |
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No. 31 | 20 Sept 2019 |
State of the art in the use of emerging technologies in the public sector
This Working Paper is intended to highlight the main opportunities and challenges for the use of emerging technologies (ET), and in particular emerging digital technologies, in the public sector. Based on the first results of the analysis of evidence... |
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No. 26 | 22 Dec 2014 |
Social Media Use by Governments
This working paper takes a comparative snapshot of social media use in and by OECD governments. The focus is on government institutions, as opposed to personalities, and how they manage to capture the opportunities of new social media platforms to... |
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No. 64 | 20 Sept 2023 |
Seven routes to experimentation in policymaking
Behavioural science methods are increasingly used to design and evaluate public policies that better reflect human behaviour and decision making. However, there is a lack of standardization in selecting and labelling these methods, making it... |
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No. 52 | 30 May 2022 |
Serving citizens
Measuring the performance of services and making effective use of the results are critical for designing and delivering policies to improve people’s lives. Improving user satisfaction with public services is an objective in many OECD countries and is... |
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No. 9 | 01 Jan 2007 |
Regulatory Management Systems Across OECD Countries
This Working Paper is structured in two sections. The first section presents the contributions and limits of composite indicators of regulatory management systems. The second section provides an overview of regulatory management systems, including... |
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No. 10 | 01 May 2008 |
Regulatory Institutions
The paper develops an architecture for regulatory institutions that could be feasible in the current Russian context. The paper examines two specific areas: first, establishing a regulatory oversight unit, located at the centre of government,... |
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No. 55 | 22 Sept 2022 |
Public communication trends after COVID-19
Reflecting on the experiences of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, this OECD working paper illustrates selected international trends that are driving innovation in the practice of public communication across the OECD to make it more inclusive,... |
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No. 2 | 01 Feb 2007 |
Public Sector Pensions and the Challenge of an Ageing Public Service
The consequences of an ageing workforce are magnified in the public sector because it generally has an older demographic profile than the private sector (OECD, 2006). The challenge of attracting and retaining capacity within the public service as... |
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No. 46 | 16 Jun 2021 |
Political efficacy and participation
The active participation of citizens is the lifeblood of any functioning democracy. But what drives people’s willingness to participate in political life? A key driver is their self-perception of their ability to understand political processes and to... |
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No. 5 | 01 Jul 2007 |
Performance-based Arrangements for Senior Civil Servants OECD and other Country Experiences
How are performance-based arrangements at the individual level related to performance management arrangements at higher levels such as the agency or programme level? The report aims to provide practical lessons and insights into performance-based... |
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No. 22 | 27 May 2013 |
Open Government Data
Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives, and in particular the development of OGD portals, have proliferated since the mid-2000s both at central and local government levels in OECD and non OECD countries. Understanding the preconditions that enable... |
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No. 23 | 29 Aug 2013 |
OECD Risk Management
Governments are confronted with crises that may spread beyond national borders and trigger significant economic knock-on effects. Managing crises is a key responsibility for governments, which have a crucial role to play to strengthen the resilience... |
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No. 59 | 06 Jun 2023 |
OECD Infrastructure Governance Indicators
The governance of infrastructure can affect how and whether infrastructure projects achieve desired outcomes and contribute to wider policy goals. This paper presents the conceptual framework, design and methodology of the OECD Infrastructure... |
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No. 41 | 14 Oct 2020 |
OECD Digital Government Index (DGI)
This Working Paper presents the process, methodology and results of the OECD 2019 Digital Government Index (DGI). It has three key objectives. First, the paper describes the design, the content and the methodology of the pilot OECD Survey on Digital... |
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No. 30 | 11 Dec 2018 |
OECD 2017 OURdata Index
This paper presents the methodological process and results of the OECD 2017 Open-Useful-Reusable Government data Index (OURdata Index). It is meant to present the methodology and outline the data collection and verification process; discuss key... |
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No. 34 | 07 Nov 2019 |
Next generation diversity and inclusion policies in the public service
Embracing a policy and culture of diversity and inclusion (D&I) is increasingly considered the norm for public services across the OECD. A growing number of countries acknowledge how diversity has the potential to improve service delivery to citizens... |
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No. 13 | 01 Jun 2009 |
Multi-Level Regulatory Governance
Multi-level regulatory governance is becoming a priority in many OECD countries. High quality regulation at a certain level of government can be compromised by poor regulatory policies and practices at other levels, impacting negatively on the... |
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No. 58 | 25 May 2023 |
Mobilising evidence to enhance the effectiveness of child well-being policies
Despite the fundamental importance of childhood, countries tend to invest much less in this area than in old age. Effective child well-being policies can bring high long-term returns on early life investments and public interventions. However, these... |
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No. 14 | 05 Oct 2009 |
Mind the Gaps: Managing Mutual Dependence in Relations among Levels of Government
OECD member and non-member governments are actively looking for ways to facilitate and improve the relationships among levels of government. These relationships lie between the central and sub-national levels, as well as among peer levels (i.e.,... |
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Steering responses to climate change from the centre of government
Misha Kaur, Johannes Klein, Gloriana Madrigal, Timothy Tennant, Emma Phillips, Louna Wemaere and Ivan Stola
27 Oct 2023
This paper takes stock of the institutional set-ups, mechanisms and practices used by governments, and in particular centres of government, to steer climate change policy. To respond effectively to climate change, governments need decision-making and...
State of the art in the use of emerging technologies in the public sector
Barbara Ubaldi, Enzo Maria Le Fevre, Elisa Petrucci, Pietro Marchionni, Claudio Biancalana, Nanni Hiltunen, Daniela Maria Intravaia and Chan Yang
20 Sept 2019
This Working Paper is intended to highlight the main opportunities and challenges for the use of emerging technologies (ET), and in particular emerging digital technologies, in the public sector. Based on the first results of the analysis of evidence...
Social Media Use by Governments
Arthur Mickoleit
22 Dec 2014
This working paper takes a comparative snapshot of social media use in and by OECD governments. The focus is on government institutions, as opposed to personalities, and how they manage to capture the opportunities of new social media platforms to...
Seven routes to experimentation in policymaking
Chiara Varazzani, Henrietta Tuomaila, Torben Emmerling, Stefano Brusoni and Laura Fontanesi
20 Sept 2023
Behavioural science methods are increasingly used to design and evaluate public policies that better reflect human behaviour and decision making. However, there is a lack of standardization in selecting and labelling these methods, making it...
Serving citizens
Barbara Baredes
30 May 2022
Measuring the performance of services and making effective use of the results are critical for designing and delivering policies to improve people’s lives. Improving user satisfaction with public services is an objective in many OECD countries and is...
Regulatory Management Systems Across OECD Countries
Stephane Jacobzone, Gregory Bounds, Chang-won Choi and Claire Miguet
01 Jan 2007
This Working Paper is structured in two sections. The first section presents the contributions and limits of composite indicators of regulatory management systems. The second section provides an overview of regulatory management systems, including...
Regulatory Institutions
Donato de Rosa and Nick Malyshev
01 May 2008
The paper develops an architecture for regulatory institutions that could be feasible in the current Russian context. The paper examines two specific areas: first, establishing a regulatory oversight unit, located at the centre of government,...
Public communication trends after COVID-19
Carlotta Alfonsi, Chiara Varazzani, Ethel Hui Yan Tan and Michaela Sullivan-Paul
22 Sept 2022
Reflecting on the experiences of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, this OECD working paper illustrates selected international trends that are driving innovation in the practice of public communication across the OECD to make it more inclusive,...
Public Sector Pensions and the Challenge of an Ageing Public Service
Jonathan Kings, Edouard Turkisch and Nick Manning
01 Feb 2007
The consequences of an ageing workforce are magnified in the public sector because it generally has an older demographic profile than the private sector (OECD, 2006). The challenge of attracting and retaining capacity within the public service as...
Political efficacy and participation
Mariana Prats and Axel Meunier
16 Jun 2021
The active participation of citizens is the lifeblood of any functioning democracy. But what drives people’s willingness to participate in political life? A key driver is their self-perception of their ability to understand political processes and to...
Performance-based Arrangements for Senior Civil Servants OECD and other Country Experiences
Anne Ketelaar, Nick Manning and Edouard Turkisch
01 Jul 2007
How are performance-based arrangements at the individual level related to performance management arrangements at higher levels such as the agency or programme level? The report aims to provide practical lessons and insights into performance-based...
Open Government Data
Barbara Ubaldi
27 May 2013
Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives, and in particular the development of OGD portals, have proliferated since the mid-2000s both at central and local government levels in OECD and non OECD countries. Understanding the preconditions that enable...
OECD Risk Management
Charles Baubion
29 Aug 2013
Governments are confronted with crises that may spread beyond national borders and trigger significant economic knock-on effects. Managing crises is a key responsibility for governments, which have a crucial role to play to strengthen the resilience...
OECD Infrastructure Governance Indicators
Ana Maria Ruiz Rivadeneira, Tenzin Dekyi and Lorena Cruz
06 Jun 2023
The governance of infrastructure can affect how and whether infrastructure projects achieve desired outcomes and contribute to wider policy goals. This paper presents the conceptual framework, design and methodology of the OECD Infrastructure...
OECD Digital Government Index (DGI)
Barbara Ubaldi and Tomoya Okubo
14 Oct 2020
This Working Paper presents the process, methodology and results of the OECD 2019 Digital Government Index (DGI). It has three key objectives. First, the paper describes the design, the content and the methodology of the pilot OECD Survey on Digital...
OECD 2017 OURdata Index
Guillaume Lafortune and Barbara Ubaldi
11 Dec 2018
This paper presents the methodological process and results of the OECD 2017 Open-Useful-Reusable Government data Index (OURdata Index). It is meant to present the methodology and outline the data collection and verification process; discuss key...
Next generation diversity and inclusion policies in the public service
Natalia Nolan-Flecha
07 Nov 2019
Embracing a policy and culture of diversity and inclusion (D&I) is increasingly considered the norm for public services across the OECD. A growing number of countries acknowledge how diversity has the potential to improve service delivery to citizens...
Multi-Level Regulatory Governance
Delia Rodrigo, Lorenzo Allio and Pedro Andres-Amo
01 Jun 2009
Multi-level regulatory governance is becoming a priority in many OECD countries. High quality regulation at a certain level of government can be compromised by poor regulatory policies and practices at other levels, impacting negatively on the...
Mobilising evidence to enhance the effectiveness of child well-being policies
Stephane Jacobzone and Silvia Picalarga
25 May 2023
Despite the fundamental importance of childhood, countries tend to invest much less in this area than in old age. Effective child well-being policies can bring high long-term returns on early life investments and public interventions. However, these...
Mind the Gaps: Managing Mutual Dependence in Relations among Levels of Government
Claire Charbit and Maria Varinia Michalun
05 Oct 2009
OECD member and non-member governments are actively looking for ways to facilitate and improve the relationships among levels of government. These relationships lie between the central and sub-national levels, as well as among peer levels (i.e.,...