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Journal Article
Keeping the faith
2017
Overview
Thirty years ago, I wrote the customary editorial expected of the new editor-in-chief of policy sciences. Looking back at the assumptions, projections, and hopes is useful for accomplishments and disappointments. I begin with two excerpts concerning the public policy field in general: ...the battle to reassert the importance of contextual, interdisciplinary, problem-oriented inquiry has been quite successful (Ascher 1987). We...need no further exercises in naming the various facets of the policy process, if that new nomenclature is simply an equivalent language map of existing vocabularies. This does not reflect any slavish adherence to the Lasswellian vocabulary, but rather a belief that various sound vocabularies exist, and can be improved upon only by introducing new concepts rather than by relabeling the old ones (Ascher 1987). So how did these expectations/aspirations fare? Not very well, in terms of the overall public policy field, but the journal has held fast to its principles in the face of the continued expansion of non-contextual, narrow analyses that are not terribly useful for developing sound policy.
Publisher
Springer Science + Business Media,Springer US,Springer Nature B.V
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