title: Policy analysis in uncertain and ambiguous context: Agenda for methodological pluralism
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metadata.value: Sootla, Georg
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Gutorov, Vladimir
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-10-19T18:32:12Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-10-19T18:32:12Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Sootla G., Gutorov V. Policy analysis in uncertain and ambiguous context: Agenda for methodological pluralism. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2020, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 184–209.
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metadata.value: htpps://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2020.201
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/19948
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In this article we demonstrate why and how in the Western science of policymaking a challenge posited by empirical behaviouralism aimed at reforming the over-politicised plicy process
  along the analytical-rational lines in 1950s did not succeeded. However, it produced a meaningful
  shift in understanding the policy process and it formed by the 1970s a completely new conceptual
  context and discourse on the policy process. As a result, by the new millennium the positivist and
  constructivists perspectives, that are located at the opposite ends of the continuum of methodological presumptions, started to complement each other and even to intermingle at the level
  of providing practical policy solutions. In the first part we analyse how the cognitive limits and
  uncertainty of the context forces to re-focus policy analysis from substantive issues to the policy
  arena design, and to work out conceptions of interactive policymaking. Simultaneously several
  concepts of constructivist social science (frames, learning, narratives) were applied and adapted
  in the positivist perspective. We demonstrate why constructivist-interpretivist policy analysis could
  not for a long time get to the forefront of practical policy analysis. We demonstrate how the application of the pragmatist approach made it possible to develop the conception of design rationality.
  Overall, we explore the framework in which different methodologies would complement each other
  in providing policy advice and analysis from different practical angles.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This research was supported partly by the Estonian Research Council with a personal grant
  “PUT1485 A relational approach to governing wicked problems” and EU project Horizon 2020 857366
  “Migration and Integration Research Network”; the article was prepared partly with the support of the
  Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Expert Institute for Social Research, project No. 20-
  011-31349 “Liberal values in the modern world: the main trends of transformation”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 16; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: policy analysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: interactive policymaking
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: policy frames
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: policy learning
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: wicked issued
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: design rationality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: method of critical dialogue
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Policy analysis in uncertain and ambiguous context: Agenda for methodological pluralism
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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