open access

https://hdl.handle.net/2115/99427

Innovating Policy Evaluation : Policy Learning and Agile Governance in Times of Social Change

日本語

stakeholder engagement

2026-03-31

北海道大学公共政策大学院

Annals, Public Policy Studies

20

81-99

19

This study examines how policy evaluation can be innovated and reconceptualised not merely as an ex-post instrument of accountability, but as a core mechanism for policy coordination and collective learning that underpins agile governance in times of rapid social change. Drawing on European experiences, the evolution of policy evaluation systems, evaluation practices of urban transport policy in Bordeaux, France, and recent approaches to evaluating digital transformation (DX) policies are analysed. Through the Bordeaux case, this study demonstrates how evaluation operates as an institutionalised feedback mechanism: evaluation resultsーmost notably policy barometers － are systematically incorporated into successive planning cycles such as the Plan de Deplacements Urbains (PDU). This iterative integration enables continuous policy adjustment and illustrates a common structural logic of evaluation that cuts across policy domains, ultimately linking urban transport and DX policy through shared processes of feedback generation, learning, and adaptation. Building on this cross-sectoral perspective, the study argues that effective DX policy evaluation must move beyond narrow output measurement to address outcomes, societal impacts, and transformations in organisational and institutional arrangements. Accordingly, an integrated evaluative perspective that connects technological, organisational, and institutional dimensions is proposed. By embedding evaluation within policymaking processes and combining it with stakeholder engagement and iterative adjustment, policy evaluation enhances responsiveness and learning capacity, thereby contributing to agile governance in contemporary public administration.

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