The Value of Qualitative Inquiry for Public Policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Maxwell
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Contextual Variability ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Policies And Programs

This article focuses on public policies and programs as a major component of the “public sphere,” and argues that qualitative inquiry can make uniquely valuable contributions to their development and evaluation. These contributions include understanding (a) how people interpret and respond to such policies, (b) contextual variability and its effects on the implementation and consequences of these policies, and (c) the processes through which policies achieve their results. The movement for “evidence-based” policy and practice has largely ignored these issues, but they are critical for developing policies that actually achieve their goals and avoid unintended and damaging consequences.

scholarly journals Frontier zones of public policy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.I. Soloviev
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Orientation ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
State And Society ◽  
State Public Policy ◽  
Analytical Correction ◽  
The Public Sphere

Referring to the traditional interpretations of “public policy”, the author substantiates the need for analytical correction of its content on the basis of identifying universal parameters of publicity, reflecting a special format of open (public) relations between the state and society. In this context, there are three social spaces of the public sphere, each of which determines the possibilities of implementing the course of citizens' participation in the management and strengthening the social orientation of government policy. The features of the implementation of such a variant of state public policy in modern Russia are briefly outlined.

The Role of Media Influence in Shaping Public Energy Dialogues

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Policy Analysis ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Media Discourses

The objective of this chapter is to provide an overview of the main mechanisms and processes observed in media discourses with the potential to shape political and economic responses to energy issues. By adopting the discursive approach to public policy analysis, the author attempts to answer these questions: How is energy is discussed? What is said and what is not said? Who speaks and who is absent in media discourse? The focus is on the problems of media communication that are crucial for public dialogue on energy. In conclusion, it is argued that the energy discourse in mass media is a post-hegemonic discourse, while the counter-discourses try to find their place in other dimensions of the public sphere, such as nonfiction literature or social media, and therefore their visibility is limited.

Enlightened Localism and Local Experimentalism in Public Policy: Schooling Policies of Children with Immigrant Backgrounds in Denmark and Spain

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 686-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Ahedo
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
The Public ◽  
Generation Immigrant ◽  
Local Municipalities ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Public Policy Decisions ◽  
Schooling Policy

AbstractI examine how local municipalities in Denmark and Spain carried out experiments in schooling policy on pupils with immigrant backgrounds, toward improving the process of social integration and academic performance. Policy affecting second generation immigrant children generated conflicts over rights, values, and norms in the public sphere. I analyze local public policy decisions first by confronting two perspectives, local experimentalism and enlightened localism, with one another, and then by identifying various ways in which they are complementary.

scholarly journals The Case for Public Policy Expertise in Political Science

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (03) ◽  
pp. 476-480
Author(s):  
Veronica Herrera ◽  
Alison E. Post
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Research Area ◽  
The Public ◽  
Innovative Work ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Academic Positions

ABSTRACTThe politics of public policy is a vibrant research area increasingly at the forefront of intellectual innovations in the discipline. We argue that political scientists are best positioned to undertake research on the politics of public policy when they possess expertise in particular policy areas. Policy expertise positions scholars to conduct theoretically innovative work and to ensure that empirical research reflects the reality they aim to analyze. It also confers important practical advantages, such as access to a significant number of academic positions and major sources of research funding not otherwise available to political scientists. Perhaps most importantly, scholars with policy expertise are equipped to defend the value of political science degrees and research in the public sphere.

scholarly journals “Evidence-based Policy” and “Policy of Evidence”: The Dilemma of Post-Soviet Societies

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 61-80
Author(s):  
A. I. Soloviev
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Public ◽  
Evidence Based Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Public Sphere

External and internalchallenges, risks and crisis phenomena operatingin the world and national states requirethe ruling regimes to flexibly restructurethe configuration of relations betweenpower and society. One of the toolsof such communication is the methods of“evidence-based policy”, which involve addressingthe population on the basis of expertand scientific recommendations whendeveloping goals that allow people not onlyto judge their legality, but also to challengeand correct their content. At the same time,in a number of transitional and authoritarianstates, preference is given to the “policy ofevidence” that demonstrates the priorities ofpolitically expedient actions of the authoritiesaimed not at partnership with society, but at mobilizing the support of the populationfor the implementation of the goalsof government policy. In this context, thearticle shows the objective and subjectivelimitations of the use of scientific andexpert data in the public sphere by a numberof post-Soviet states, the peculiarities ofthe correlation of “evidence-based policy”and “policy of evidence” in the activities ofthe ruling regimes, and assesses their prospectsin the short term in modern Russiansociety.

Entangled1

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-135
Author(s):  
Judith C. Lapadat
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
International Congress ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

At the Thirteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, we gathered as a community to share perspectives on qualitative inquiry in the public sphere in these troubled times and to advance the causes of social justice. “Entangled” is a poetic montage that pieces together powerful words, phrases, and images that I gathered in sessions, in hallways, and on the lawns at ICQI 2017. This composite of fragments reflects the conference as I experienced it.

Making It Relevant: Qualitative Inquiry in the Public Sphere Focusing End-of-Life Care and Migration

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silke Migala ◽  
Uwe Flick
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Organizational Justice ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Language Problems ◽  
Professional Care ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
And Migration

Qualitative inquiry in the public sphere is discussed with a study concerning intercultural palliative care. For the case of Russian-speaking immigrants in Germany, language problems in care are analyzed as an issue of organizational ethics. Interviews with this target group originally addressing barriers of access to professional care are reanalyzed for the roles of language, limited language skills, and the lack of professional translation in care. The focus is on ethical implications for organizing services and the health care system planned for organizational justice for all groups in a diversifying society. Findings are discussed with Burawoy’s concept of a public sociology.

scholarly journals Hearing and Being Heard, Seeing and Being Seen: Qualitative Inquiry in the Public Sphere—Introduction to the Special Issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uwe Flick
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Societal Relevance ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
The Public Sphere

What means qualitative inquiry in the public sphere? What are public spheres for qualitative inquiry? First, to transgress the disciplinary boundaries of qualitative inquiry. Second, to identify research problems of societal relevance and target groups affected. Third, to make our results accessible for public audiences—how we write about our research and where we publish our findings. Fourth, to face changing political discourses with our research. Public sociology and ethnography are discussed for their relevance for qualitative inquiry in the public sphere. An overview of the contributions and the way this idea is treated in them are given.

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