Public Policy, Governance, Law and Social Justice

Effective public policy depends on institutions that are lawful, transparent, responsive and socially legitimate. This article presents a simulated empirical study examining inclusive governance readiness through public-service quality, transparency, political voice, access to justice, perceived fairness, institutional trust and inequality pressure. A reproducible synthetic dataset representing 720 illustrative adults across low-, moderate- and high-agency settings was generated. Simulated results produced an overall readiness mean of 3.35 (SD = 0.75). Readiness differed across agency settings, F = 161.59, p < .001, eta-squared = 0.311; High-agency settings recorded higher readiness (3.89) than Low-agency settings (2.87). The regression model explained 62.9% of the variance. The findings are illustrative rather than population estimates. They support an integrated model in which fair treatment, access to justice, transparency and political voice reinforce institutional trust and the legitimacy of public policy.