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Policy Science (policy + science)
Selected AbstractsPreviewing Policy Sciences: Multiple Lenses and Segmented VisionsPOLITICS & POLICY, Issue 3 2006Thomas A.P. Sinclair In setting an agenda for policy sciences, Harold Lasswell argued that the field would be shaped by its contextuality, problem orientation, and methodological diversity. The review of developments in the field in this article shows that scholars have divided into positivist and post-positivist orientations that employ multiple frameworks and models. I argue that theoretical diversity should be expected and welcomed given the complexity of policy processes and phenomena. The article encourages positivists and post-positivists alike to allow the problem being studied to drive analysis and to seek ways to integrate different theoretical and methodological approaches. [source] Gregory Bateson on deutero-learning and double bind: A brief conceptual historyJOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 3 2003Max Visser Ph.D. assistant professor The concepts of deutero-learning and double bind have acquired an increasingly important status in various fields of social and behavioral science, particularly in psychiatry, psychotherapy, organization, and policy science. With this proliferation, however, their original meaning and significance has become increasingly muted. In this article it is argued that both concepts are important ingredients of a behavioral theory of (organizational) learning. To support this argument, the development of both concepts is traced to the work of Gregory Bateson. In Bateson's thinking, the two concepts have a firm base in dyadic behavior and interaction. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Sociology and political arithmetic: some principles of a new policy science1THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, Issue 1 2004Hugh Lauder Abstract This paper advances the position that sociology needs to develop an approach to research which focuses on fundamental social problems. In doing so it shares many of the intellectual values and goals of political arithmetic while seeking to move methodologically beyond it. Since such problems are complex they will require, typically, interdisciplinary input and a concomitant approach to the development and appraisal of theories. We are not, therefore, advocating the primacy of sociology but arguing that it has a distinctive part to play in addressing the fundamental problems of the twenty-first century. However, a policy-oriented sociology has also to take up the task, so clearly defined by the tradition of political arithmetic, which is to hold governments to account. Consequently a central principle of a new policy science is that it should contribute to democratic debate about policy. [source] Previewing Policy Sciences: Multiple Lenses and Segmented VisionsPOLITICS & POLICY, Issue 3 2006Thomas A.P. Sinclair In setting an agenda for policy sciences, Harold Lasswell argued that the field would be shaped by its contextuality, problem orientation, and methodological diversity. The review of developments in the field in this article shows that scholars have divided into positivist and post-positivist orientations that employ multiple frameworks and models. I argue that theoretical diversity should be expected and welcomed given the complexity of policy processes and phenomena. The article encourages positivists and post-positivists alike to allow the problem being studied to drive analysis and to seek ways to integrate different theoretical and methodological approaches. [source] | ||||||||||