scholarly journals Para além do empirismo: policy inquiry na perspectiva pós-positivista

NAU Social ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Policy Inquiry

Este ensaio contribui para a crescente crítica às metodologias neopositivistas dominantes na ciência das políticas públicas. Não somente a ciência neopositivista falhou em seus esforços para desenvolver um corpo utilizável de generalizações preditivas, como tem sido incapaz de fornecer soluções eficazes para os problemas sociais. Uma parte importante desta falha é atribuída a pressupostos epistemológicos ultrapassados. Com base na evolução da ciência e da sociologia da ciência, em particular, e no reconhecimento de que as ciências "duras" em si não descansam sobre os conceitos tradicionais de objetividade e de prova, a discussão esboça uma concepção pós-positivista da ciência política destinada a abordar a complexidade multidimensional da realidade social. Como uma orientação discursiva aterrada em particular razão, a abordagem pós-positivista situa a pesquisa empírica em um quadro interpretativo mais amplo. Mais do que apenas uma alternativa epistemológica, esta abordagem é oferecida como uma melhor descrição do que os cientistas sociais realmente fazem na prática. O ensaio termina com uma breve discussão sobre as implicações de uma abordagem pós-positivista tanto para um currículo em políticas públicas socialmente relevante, quanto para uma prática democrática de investigação em políticas públicas.

Interpretive policy inquiry: A response to its limitations

1986 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Torgerson
Keyword(s):  
Policy Inquiry

scholarly journals Discrimination and the Private Law in Canada: Reflections on Spence v. BMO Trust Co.

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 138-163
Author(s):  
Jane Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
Canadian Law ◽  
The Common ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Policy Inquiry ◽  
And Control ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Court Of Appeal

Discrimination has long been identified as detrimental to the basic functioning of multicultural countries like Canada. While governments have adopted constitutional law and passed human rights legislation to combat and control discrimination, these laws are inapplicable to a significant portion of Canadian law. Areas of private law, such as wills and trusts are therefore more vulnerable to use by individuals seeking to perpetuate discrimination. The main way that courts in Canada have dealt with this issue is through the use of the doctrine of public policy. As early as the 19th century, private law provisions viewed as restraining another’s freedom of religion or perpetuating discrimination on grounds such as race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation have been found contrary to public policy by Canadian courts and voided accordingly. While the uniquely Canadian jurisprudence in this area continues to evolve, until quite recently, its trajectory appeared to be one of expansion. However, the latest appellate level decision in this area,Spence v. BMO Trust Co., appears to have changed the course of this jurisprudence.  In Spence, the Ontario Court of Appeal found that certain testamentary clauses, no matter how discriminatory in nature, can never be subject to a public policy review. This article argues that while the result of Spence was likely correct on its particular facts, the reasoning of that decision goes too far in its attempt to limit the doctrine’s applicability with respect to discrimination in the private law. Parts of the decision in Spence ignore the key message of past decisions in this area concerning the danger of uncensored discrimination in Canadian society. While reasonable people may disagree on the outcome of any given public policy inquiry, a point that should attract consensus is that the private law should never be an unexamined and impenetrable shelter for discrimination. However, Spence effectively creates an area of the private law immune to legal scrutiny by precluding the use of the common law doctrine that has been used to directly confront and censure discrimination in Canadian private law.

The argumentative turn in public policy inquiry: deliberative policy analysis for usable advice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Science ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Usable Knowledge ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Policy Inquiry ◽  
Policy Argumentation

The argumentation turn in policy analysis emerged in the late 1980s as a response to questions concerning social relevance and usable knowledge. Toward this end, it focused on an apparent gap between policy inquiry and real-world policymaking. Basic to the approach was a challenge to the ‘value free’ positivist orientation that has shaped the field of policy analysis, underscoring in particular the limits of the technocratic practices to which it gave rise. After tracing the political and academic debates that surrounded the uses of policy analysis, the chapter presents the alternative argumentative orientation and its post-positivist methodological perspective. The discussion emphasizes its language-based foundations and outlines the logic of a deliberative-analytic framework for the assessment of policy argumentation. It illustrates the ways that policy analysis needs to integrate empirical and normative inquiry. Policy findings and practical policy argumentation are interpreted by decision-makers and citizens in terms of their relations to the larger framework of norms and values that imbue them with social and political meanings. Moving beyond a narrow empirical assignment, the argumentative turn seeks to assist these actors by also drawing out these normative connections. It is, as such, an effort to make good on Harold Lasswell's call for a 'policy science' of democracy.

The Logic of Policy Inquiry

1984 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 771
Author(s):  
Darrell Willey ◽  
David C. Paris ◽  
James F. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Policy Inquiry
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