促进民主的公共政策：政策设计与社会建构理论述评

政策设计理论主要研究公共政策的实质性内容,谋求政策质量的改善。美国学者施奈德和英格兰姆将社会建构思想引入政策设计的研究中。通过分析在政策目标群体或知识的社会建构主导下,各种决策背景中的政策设计对于民主的促进或阻碍影响,目的在于倡导一种能够整合问题解决、民主价值、公民精神和社会正义等多种价值的政策设计规划,推动社会民主治理的发展。

Public Policy for Democracy: A Review of Policy Design and Social Construction Theory

Policy design theory focus on the substantive content of public policy,seeking to improve the quality of policies.Two American scholars,Schneider and Ingram,introduce the idea of social construction into the study of policy design.By analyzing the positive or negative impacts of different types of policy design,emerging from different policy-making contexts based on the social construction of target populations or knowledge,upon democracy,they advocate a kind of policy design which can integrates multi-dime...