Deliberative policy analysis

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Dryzek
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Bounded Rationality ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Environment Policy ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
Per Se

This chapter shows how open deliberation can enhance the legitimacy of policy making, and how it can also, as a science, overcome the bounded rationality of individuals. This chapter explores the value of deliberation in evaluation especially in an environment policy context, not as a tool for democracy per se but as toll for better policy. The social science background to these claims will be explored and examples given of the application of deliberation to better policy making. Finally, the strengths and weaknesses of the approach will be explored.

The evolution of social policy analysis in Ireland: from a theocentric to an econocentric paradigm?

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
Fiona Dukelow
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S

This chapter situates policy analysis within a social policy context and begins by stressing its early theocratic formation. It is an examination of the history of social policy analysis in Ireland since the 1950s, when the country began its journey towards modernity. The chapter reviews the actors and institutions involved and the knowledge deployed as the country moved towards a globalised society with its attendant social policy challenges. Dukelow charts the complexities of social policy analysis under what she characterises as the shift from the dominance of a theocentric paradigm to an econocentric paradigm. This saw the subordinating of the social to the economic valuation of social policy by the 1990s.

Facing the Future

2020 ◽  
pp. 187-216
Author(s):  
Lise Butler
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Social Science Journal ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intellectual Networks ◽  
Negative Income Tax

This chapter examines Young’s work as founding chair of the Social Science Research Council between 1965 and 1968 in the Labour government led by Harold Wilson. It describes how Young responded to increasing anxieties about the nature of planning and expertise in the British civil service by arguing that the social sciences should play a more prominent role in government policy making. The chapter focuses mainly on Young’s Committee on the Next Thirty Years, and his proposals for an Institute of Forecasting Studies, which he unsuccessfully sought to develop as part of a transnational forecasting movement with the support of foreign intellectuals such as the American sociologist Daniel Bell and the French futurologist Bertrand de Jouvenel. The chapter also discusses the intellectual networks associated with the popular social science journal New Society, showing that this group promoted libertarian and state-critical perspectives on urban planning, and radical economic ideas like negative income tax. While the Next Thirty Years Committee was short-lived, it reflected Young’s career-long conviction that public policy should be guided by interdisciplinary social science.

scholarly journals GLOBAL WARMING: Natural Science versus Social Sciences Issues

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (29) ◽  
pp. 451
Author(s):  
Jan-Erik Lane
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
International Governance ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Exclusive Focus

It is true that climate change and its implications are given much more attention now, after the COP21 Agreement in Paris. There are almost weekly conferences about global warming and the debate is intense all over the globe. This is a positive, but one must point out the exclusive focus upon natural science and technological issues, which actually bypasses the thorny problems of international governance and the coordination of states. The social science aspects of global warming policy-making will be pointed out in this article. This is a problematic by itself that reduces the likelihood of successful implementation of the goals of the COP21 Agreement (Goal I, Goal II and Goal III in global decarbonistion).

How Effective Is Policy Analysis?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Hird
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Specific Recommendation ◽  
Policy Making Process

This chapter discusses the effectiveness of policy analysis generally and then focuses on its use in the federal regulatory setting. It emphasizes that there are quite different definitions of policy analysis, ranging from almost any social science that discusses a policy to a tightly focused analysis of alternative policies evaluated and compared by public interest criteria leading to a specific recommendation. Effectiveness can also be defined broadly, from almost any use that is made of the policy research to whether or not the analysis improves the outcome of the policy-making process as judged by public interest criteria. The chapter clarifies these alternative definitions and reviews the sparse literature that has attempted to assess effectiveness by these definitions.

Evidence-based policy making and social science

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerry Stoker ◽  
Mark Evans
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
Best Friends ◽  
Evidence Based Policy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Will

This chapter looks at the tensions between the making of public policy and the offering of evidence from social science. Social science and policymaking are not natural ‘best’ friends. Policymakers express frustration that social science often appears to have little of relevance to say and social scientists will regularly complain that policymakers are not interested in using their evidence. Yet the two groups appear, almost against the will of the participants in them, to be thrown together. Policymakers are told to evidence their policies and social scientists are urged to step up to provide that evidence. The aim of this chapter is to help improve that situation by identifying some of the main blockages on either side of the social science and policy making fence and see how they can be addressed.

Citizen social science and policy making

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
The Social

The author argues that there is a growing capacity in the social sciences to include people not as subjects but as active participants in research. This approach has a complex history in the social sciences that needs to be understood, but it is emerging in a modern from as a viable technique for discovery, especially among hard-to-reach groups. Examples of citizen science will be presented and the strengths and weaknesses of the technique explored.

scholarly journals Three Voices of Socio-Legal Studies

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 175-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm M. Feeley
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Distinct Form ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Language ◽  
The Relationship

The connection between law and contemporary social science emerged as a consequence of the quest for social reform. As law became more instrumental, it also became more empirical, more concerned with policy. For this process, it turned to social science. Social science complied and has become an adjunct to law in the quest for solving social problems. As this partnership has developed, the relationship between law and social science has matured. Not only has social science sought to educate and influence law, it has also incorporated law into its own disciplinary concerns. Furthermore, the field of socio-legal studies may be on the verge of establishing itself as a separate and distinct discipline, independent of the practical concerns of law.The scholarly intersection of law and social science — or socio-legal studies, as I shall call it — now speaks with at least three voices addressed to at least three audiences. It speaks as policy analysis, a handmaiden to law. It also speaks in the traditional language of the social sciences. Thirdly, it may be gaining a voice of its own, reflecting a belief that law is a distinct form of ordering that merits its own position among the scholarly disciplines, separate from both scholarly fields and the professional concerns of law. At their core, each of these enterprises entails a distinct voice, a distinct audience, and a distinct agenda.

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