Ali Mehdizadeh Ashrafi; Toraj Mojibi; Ahmad Meydari; Nilofar ImanKhan; mehdi faghani
Abstract
Given the fact that welfare policies –due to the vast majority of interest groups- are in the face of complexity, this research aims at designing an implementation model of welfare policies. For this purpose, the mixed method is utilized containing the qualitative method for designing an exploratory ...
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Given the fact that welfare policies –due to the vast majority of interest groups- are in the face of complexity, this research aims at designing an implementation model of welfare policies. For this purpose, the mixed method is utilized containing the qualitative method for designing an exploratory model (by interviewing 15 social policy-making elites) and the quantitative method for testing the model (by surveying 265 social policy experts). Results: the model dimensions consists of: Conditions, Strategies, Outcomes, Communications, Resources, Practitioners’ attitude and Organizational structure. Moreover, based on the quantitative findings, the structural analysis of data supports the correlation between indicators and indices and the correlation between indices and the main concept (welfare policies implementation). The Conditions dimension (foreign and interior) was the most important and the Resources and Outcome dimension were the least important, comparing all dimensions. The lack of a powerful and pivotal administration in the policy-making system that has been intensified by the merger of ministries, is considered one of the main problems. Based on the elites and experts’ ideas, the most important weaknesses are: imbalance between responsibilities and authority, inappropriate distribution of budget and bank resources, inadequate utilization of NGO’s capacity and civil partnership. In according to the findings, conflict of laws is an important obstacle for an integrated social policy implementation. Moreover, interorganizational communication for policy implementation isn't auspicious.
