CHAPTER 1Policy Science and Policy Cycles
政策科学与政策回环
寻求新的理解
Students of politics search for new understandings of the relationship between governments and citizens.
理解政府与公民的相互关系
拉斯韦尔的期望
Pioneered by Harold Lasswell and others, policy science was expected to replace traditional political studies, integrating the study of political theory and political practice.
三 项 特 征
Multi-disciplinary
Problem-solving
Explicitly normative
四 种 传 统
政治决定政策
It argued that public policies vary according to the nature of a political system and its links with society.
政策决定政治
As Theodore Lowi put it, ultimately ‘policy may determine politics’ and not the other way around.
四 种 传 统 (续)
什么影响政策
This tradition tend to concentrate on the question of whether public policies are determined by macro-level socio-economic factors or by micro-level behavioural elements.
政策影响什么
This literature has involved the assessment of the direct and indirect effects of specific policies.