Of ends and means: Development policy assessment with human development and multiple causality

Policy assessment often involves the study of outcomes and their causes. Development policy analyses have conventionally used an economistic perspective with a focus mainly on pecuniary indicators and the search for the one model of best fit. However, i) if development policy outcomes are ultimately...

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Main Author: Pablo Garcés Velástegui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) 2019-07-01
Series:Desarrollo y Sociedad
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spelling doaj-270f672a517a4abd88e58059feb79d812020-11-25T03:56:54ZengUniversidad de los Andes (Bogotá)Desarrollo y Sociedad0120-35841900-77602019-07-018383385412https://doi.org/10.13043/dys.83.10Of ends and means: Development policy assessment with human development and multiple causalityPablo Garcés Velástegui0 Altos Estudios Nacionales of Ecuador Policy assessment often involves the study of outcomes and their causes. Development policy analyses have conventionally used an economistic perspective with a focus mainly on pecuniary indicators and the search for the one model of best fit. However, i) if development policy outcomes are ultimately to be assessed in terms of people’s quality of life; and, ii) if policies establish similar outcomes for different people in different contexts, alternative approaches seem required to study a policy’s ends and means. As such, this article advances the combined use of the Human Development and Capability Approach with fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis as a promising option. While the former, being a people-centred framework, can contribute to assess policy ends, the latter, enabling the study of multiple conjunctural causation, can shed light on the diverse means leading to them.government policyhuman developmentset theorycausal analysis
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author Pablo Garcés Velástegui
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Of ends and means: Development policy assessment with human development and multiple causality
Desarrollo y Sociedad
government policy
human development
set theory
causal analysis
author_facet Pablo Garcés Velástegui
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title Of ends and means: Development policy assessment with human development and multiple causality
title_short Of ends and means: Development policy assessment with human development and multiple causality
title_full Of ends and means: Development policy assessment with human development and multiple causality
title_fullStr Of ends and means: Development policy assessment with human development and multiple causality
title_full_unstemmed Of ends and means: Development policy assessment with human development and multiple causality
title_sort of ends and means: development policy assessment with human development and multiple causality
publisher Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá)
series Desarrollo y Sociedad
issn 0120-3584
1900-7760
publishDate 2019-07-01
description Policy assessment often involves the study of outcomes and their causes. Development policy analyses have conventionally used an economistic perspective with a focus mainly on pecuniary indicators and the search for the one model of best fit. However, i) if development policy outcomes are ultimately to be assessed in terms of people’s quality of life; and, ii) if policies establish similar outcomes for different people in different contexts, alternative approaches seem required to study a policy’s ends and means. As such, this article advances the combined use of the Human Development and Capability Approach with fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis as a promising option. While the former, being a people-centred framework, can contribute to assess policy ends, the latter, enabling the study of multiple conjunctural causation, can shed light on the diverse means leading to them.
topic government policy
human development
set theory
causal analysis
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