Policy analysis in uncertain and ambiguous context: Agenda for methodological pluralism

Авторы

  • Georg Sootla Tallinn University
  • Vladimir Gutorov Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2020.201

Аннотация

In this article we demonstrate why and how in the Western science of policymaking a challenge posited by empirical behaviouralism aimed at reforming the over-politicised plicy process
along the analytical-rational lines in 1950s did not succeeded. However, it produced a meaningful
shift in understanding the policy process and it formed by the 1970s a completely new conceptual
context and discourse on the policy process. As a result, by the new millennium the positivist and
constructivists perspectives, that are located at the opposite ends of the continuum of methodological presumptions, started to complement each other and even to intermingle at the level
of providing practical policy solutions. In the first part we analyse how the cognitive limits and
uncertainty of the context forces to re-focus policy analysis from substantive issues to the policy
arena design, and to work out conceptions of interactive policymaking. Simultaneously several
concepts of constructivist social science (frames, learning, narratives) were applied and adapted
in the positivist perspective. We demonstrate why constructivist-interpretivist policy analysis could
not for a long time get to the forefront of practical policy analysis. We demonstrate how the application of the pragmatist approach made it possible to develop the conception of design rationality.
Overall, we explore the framework in which different methodologies would complement each other
in providing policy advice and analysis from different practical angles.

Ключевые слова:

policy analysis, interactive policymaking, policy frames, policy learning, wicked issued, design rationality, method of critical dialogue

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Georg Sootla, Tallinn University

PhD (Political Science), Professor

Vladimir Gutorov, Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет

Dr. Sci. (Philosophy), Professor

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13.10.2020

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Sootla, G., & Gutorov, V. (2020). Policy analysis in uncertain and ambiguous context: Agenda for methodological pluralism. Политическая экспертиза: ПОЛИТЭКС, 16(2), 184–209. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2020.201

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