Verejno-politický cyklus z hľadiska politicko-administratívnej dichotómie
Policy Cycle from the Viewpoint of Policy-Administration Dichotomy

Summary/Abstract: The principal goal of this article is to analyze how policy making process is closely bound to the mutual relation of policy and administration, and how policy cannot by implemented without this dichotomy. Four phases in the policy cycle are defined: (1) identification and recognition of a social problem, (2) decisionmaking process in public policy, (3) implementation of public policy and (4) its evaluation. Dealing with the first phase the author focuses on the characteristics of policy-administration actors and their particular strategies of activity, which can influence the inscription of a problem into the agenda. For an explanation of understanding of policy-administration dichotomy in the decision-making phase she introduces four decision-making circles or levels, as taken from Catherine Grémion. The author introduces the third phase of public-policy cycle, implementation of public policy, as a compromise between various values of decision makers (politicians) and implementers (bureaucrats). Also, she brings up two ways of implementation: a) administrative or vertical (top/down) and b) alternative or horizontal way of public policy implementation (bottom/up), in line with the public choice theory. The fourth phase of public policy, evaluation, is characterized in compliance with P. Fiala and K. Schubert as inner or administrative, political and scientific.

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