What future for the policy sciences? |
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Authors: | Roger A Pielke Jr |
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Institution: | (1) CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1333 Grandview Avenue, UCB 488, Boulder, CO, 80309-0488, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | The term “policy sciences” refers both to a distinctive tradition within the policy movement and to the broader policy movement
itself. While the generic use of this term is sure to persist, the community of policy scientists trained in the tradition
founded by Harold Lasswell and Myres S. McDougal faces challenges to its sustainability as a distinctive tradition of the
policy movement. To motivate open discussion and debate, this essay follows the logic of a problem-oriented analysis, and
also includes personal reflections and anecdote, with the following objectives: It suggests that the policy sciences tradition
faces challenges to its sustainability because of the simple arithmetic of generational turnover in university faculty. It
explores six factors internal and external to the policy sciences community militating against sustainability. The essay then
critiques three different roles the policy scientist might play in contemporary academia, and concludes with a discussion
of alternatives that might enhance the sustainability of the policy sciences tradition, should sustainability indeed be a
desired outcome. |
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