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POLICY AND PRACTICE REVIEWS article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Policy
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1430173

Policy Design and Implementation: A Quantitative Evaluation and Empirical Study of China's Rural Sports Policy Based on the PMC Index Model

Provisionally accepted
Baibing Chen Baibing Chen 1Qizhi Zhu Qizhi Zhu 1*Dongfang Xie Dongfang Xie 1*Yaoxian Lao Yaoxian Lao 1*Hong Li Hong Li 2*
  • 1 Guangxi University, Nanning, China
  • 2 Sports College of Guangxi Normal University of Science and Technology,, Guangxi University, Nanning, China

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    The formulation and implementation of a rural sports policy is an important means of promoting rural sports, improving the physical wellbeing of farmers, and enhancing the cohesion of rural communities. However, introducing such a policy faces problems in the process of specific policy practices, such as poor effective implementation, a lagging implementation effect, and goal cognitive bias. How to look at the current rural sports policy implementation blockage problem and the governance of the blockage, in order to improve the level of rural sports public service, is the focus of this paper's research. On this basis, this paper selects 56 policy texts, issued from 2002 to 2023, that are highly relevant to rural sports and have high timeliness and authority from the sports policies issued in China. Also, ROST CM6 software is used to count high-frequency words; this study then draws keyword social network mapping for the visual analysis of policy preferences and selects 20 rural sports policy texts as typical samples. Finally, a policy modeling research consistency (PMC) index model is used to evaluate the texts comprehensively and quantitatively. The results show that the overall design of China's rural sports policies is relatively reasonable. However, the consistency and effectiveness of their implementation need to be improved. Twenty representative policy texts have an average PMC index score of 5.96, with a concave index of 3.04 (which is good overall), with the highest mean value for rural sports policies at the national level. This is followed by the second highest value at the municipal and county levels, and the smallest at the provincial level. Therefore, in the future formulation and implementation of rural sports policies, a multi-dimensional rural sports policy system should be constructed. This would help to strengthen the consistency and effectiveness of the implementation of the policy system and promote the high-quality development of rural sports.

    Keywords: Rural sports, rural sports policy, Policy design and implementation, PMC index modelling, Quantitative evaluation

    Received: 09 May 2024; Accepted: 09 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Chen, Zhu, Xie, Lao and Li. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Qizhi Zhu, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
    Dongfang Xie, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
    Yaoxian Lao, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
    Hong Li, Sports College of Guangxi Normal University of Science and Technology,, Guangxi University, Nanning, China

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