A Holistic View on the Pathology of Public Policy in Iran

The present study is an applied developmental study and from the point of view of data collection is a qualitative one. The strategy appliedin this study is the grounded theory as a systematic and qualitative approach toward creating a hypothesis. The main aim the presentstudy follows is to design a model for the pathology of running public policies in Iran. The data was collected through face to face, profound60 to 90 minute interviews with 20 of prominent policy makers, executives and professors asking questions on challenges of runningpublic policies. Sampling was conducted theoretically. Initially, a set of basic concepts were recollected via coding process and categorieswere extracted from them. Later, in axial coding stage, the relationship between these categories was determined through coding paradigm.Then, in the selective coding stage, each part of the model was explained. The advantage of this study over other works of researchconducted on the pathology of running public policies is presenting a comprehensive and practical model attempting to consider all parameters affecting an unsuccessful public policy. The present study tries to demonstrate a holistic view and identify the challenges in publicpolicy environment, challenges of the policy in public environment, and challenges of running a public policy ending in the failure of apublic policy in order to elaborate on the outcomes of a failed policy.

کلیدواژه ها:

Public policy ، Running public policy ، Grounded theory