Analysis of the policy of “executive solutions to expand the culture of Ifaf and Hijab”: implementation pathology by use of Delphi fuzzy method

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Prof. of Public Administration, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Ph.D. Candidate in Public Administration, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3 Ph.D. Candidate in Science and Technology Policy Making, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Supreme council of cultural revolution ratified the policy of “executive solutions to expand the culture of Ifaf and Hijab” in 1384 and determined executive responsibility for 26 institutions and organizations, but after 9 year from authorization, the policy isn’t completely implemented and there exist multiple barriers in this way. In this research, barriers of implementing the policy by interviewing with cultural and policy making domains experts and using thematic analysis method is analyzed and 52 subsidiary themes and 4 main themes of barriers related to the policy, barriers related to the implementers, structural and managerial barriers and finally environmental barriers is recognized. Then 49 barriers were determined by using Delphi fuzzy method. Descriptive Prioritize of result shows that the most important barriers are related to the policy and the least important barriers are related to implementers.

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