People’s Perceptions on the Success of Safety Village Commune Policy Implementation: A Case Study in Chamkarmorn District, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Keywords:
Policy objective, Political will, Resources, Socio-economic, Leadership and management styles, Implementing agency’s capability, Success of policy implementationAbstract
This research paper was to study about people’s perceptions on the success of safety village commune policy implementation in Chamkarmorn District, Phnom Penh, Cambodia with undertaken to accomplish two main objectives: 1) to study the level of people’s perceptions on the success of safety village commune and 2) to study the factors affecting the success of safety village commune policy implementation as perceived by local people. In addition, 399 people were chosen as samples among 124,079 local people in Chamkarmorn District by using a stratified random sampling technique in order to answer items in the questionnaire. This research study was not only designed based on quantitative method approach by using social research program, percentage, frequency, mean, and standard deviation, but also using inferential statistics which contained descriptive analysis, pearson correlation used to analyze the relationship between each variable, and multiple regression analysis (using ENTER technique).The results revealed that the level of people’s perceptions on the success of safety village commune policy implementation in Chamkarmorn District, Phnom Penh, Cambodia was in average level. Meanwhile, the findings of research also revealed that there were three factors affecting the success of safety village commune policy implementation in Chamkarmorn District, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, namely, socio-economic, leadership and management styles, and implementing agency’s capability.
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