Direct, Indirect and Overall Effects and Related Factors Affecting Effectiveness in Driving the State-Public Policy in Buriram Province

10.2478/bjlp-2022-004113

Abstract

The research aimed to study the degree in which the factors influenced the effectiveness in driving the state-public policies in Buriram province and a scale of direct, indirect, and total effects on the development of the factors related to the effectiveness in driving the state-public policies in this province.  The population in the study was 400 18-year-old residents of Buriram province derived by simple random sampling. The research instrument was a questionnaire. The research found that all three factors related to the effectiveness in driving the public policies in Buriram, the state-public policies in the provincial development, and the state-public policies in the local development influenced the effectiveness in driving the state-public policies in Buriram. These factors were directly influenced by the effectiveness in driving the public policies (PP), the state-public policies in provincial development (DBR), and the policies in the local development (DBRL). The scale of effects of the three factors was equivalent to 0.873, -0.125, and 0.201, respectively.  In addition, the factors were indirectly influenced by the effectiveness in driving the state-public policies in the provincial development (DBR) and the local development (DBRL) with their effect scales 0.526 and 0.715. The predictive coefficient (R2) was found to be equivalent to 0.912, which indicated that the variables in the model could explain the variance of the effectiveness in driving the state-public policies in Buriram province by 91%.