The Elite Members Patterns of Attitudes of Barriers to Horizontal Government in Iran

The weakness of achieving national goals is the concern of many developing countries. The origin of this concern is the weakness of "horizontal government", it means, there is not enough horizontal coordination among all organization that exercise national governance. One of the important influences on horizontal government is the attitudes and perceptions of governing elites. This paper focuses on elite member's perceptions of barriers to coordinate public policies. Using Q-methodology for studing public administrators, programming elites, politicians and academics attitudes about barriers to horizontal government in Iran. After reviewing the present concourse, by using two round Delphi technique the Q-sample was selected. This sample divided to four groups(structural barriers, behavioral barriers, managerial barriers and programming barriers). This sample analysized and seven distinct patterns of attitudes revealed, these patterns show the most important discourses about the ways of coordinating public policies. The authors labeled these patterns as: goal- orientation, unification- orientation, policy- orientation, stability- orientation, equilibrium- orientation, performance- orientation and architecture-orientation. The seven conceptions are examined in more details and are intrepreted based on existing theories in the final section of this paper.