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CCASP PUBLIC POLICY AGENDA AND RESPONSIVENESS GOVERNANCE

capacity of the government possess to shape, reshape, configure, and reconfigure assets to be able to

respond to a frequently changing environment .
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As with previous considerations results that the concept of responsiveness government is defined by
dynamic capabilities that give the government the necessary support to anticipate both the requirements

of the international organizations as well as the global challenges. In other words, the prerequisites are
for, at least, the reduction of what Dahl (2002, p.136) called the dark side of democracy . In conclusion,
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the responsiveness approach is a political problem where changes are connected to government and

society activity. But this connection is not possible without the convergence between agendas and without
compliance with the standard required for assessing the quality of convergence

CONCLUSIONS

This research reveals that the importance attributed to responsiveness government and policy agenda
defined as a commune place of convergence citizen’s priorities and governmental and parliamentary

activity is justified, primarily, by their involving in defining a space where public policies work. Throughout
this study we tried to configure the dimension of the agenda’s convergence and to reveal that congruence

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and reinforce each other and at the same time they make public policy work.

Secondly, put these two concepts into practice is likely to contribute to increase citizen’s trust in the
representative national institutions: government and parliament. Responsiveness is a generic concept

that applies to the relationship between a public service and the citizenry and to the relationship between
the state and civil society.

The fundamental concern is the improvement of the quality of life in society, included within that broad

concept of quality of citizen-state relations. The achievement of responsiveness in this sense is likely to
re-establish the public’s trust not only in the particularly concerned public services but also more broadly
in the system and state of governance.

4 This definition is an extension in the governmental sphere of corporate dynamic capabilities definition formulated
by J.D.Teece in Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management, Oxford University Press 2009, p.89.
5 In the current international context, the governments act in accordance with the charges of supranational structure
on which the citizens have no control.

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