Original scientific paper
INTERPRETIVE POLICY ANALYSIS AND DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY: SHOULD WE POLITICIZE ANALYSIS?
Krešimir Petković
orcid.org/0000-0003-3319-1838
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article presents the research tradition of interpretive policy analysis. After the academic context from which it can be understood is sketched and important theoretical influences which shape its theoretical field are roughly identified, arguments from the works of its main authors, establishing interpretive policy analysis as a paradigm for public policy research, are presented. With the help of categories of ontology, epistemology and methodology, its main characteristics are then schematized. In the end, the question from the article’s heading is answered. It is concluded that equating interpretive policy analysis with the political program of deliberative democracy is not necessary and probably not advisable as well.
Keywords
deliberative democracy; discourse; interpretation; interpretive policy analysis; policy sciences; political science
Hrčak ID:
29019
URI
Publication date:
18.11.2008.
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