Silences in Public Policy Discourse: Organizational and Policy Myths
Silences in Public Policy Discourse: Organizational and Policy Myths
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公共政策话语中的沉默：组织和政策神话
DOI：
10.1093/oxfordjournals.jpart.a037144
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发表时间：
1992
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
D. Yanow
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作者：
D. Yanow
神话不仅仅是“科学前”民族讲述的关于宇宙起源的故事。现代西方人在公共政策的竞技场中也构建了神话，在那里他们将注意力从同样重视但矛盾的社会原则上转移开。为执行政策而设立的机构也会制造神话。政策神话及其相关的组织神话是在执行机构最脆弱的地方构建的：围绕着为实现被禁止的目标而采取的行动这些目标是公开的，因为没有明确的公众共识。换句话说，政策神话填补了关于公共政策问题的话语中的沉默。然而，这些神话也促进了对被禁止的目标的默契和沟通。以色列社区中心公司是为执行国家社会政策而设立的一个机构。
Myths are not only tales told by “prescientific” peoples about the origins of their universe. Myths also are constructed by modern Western peoples in the arena of public policy, where they direct attention away from equally valued but contradictory societal principles. Agencies created to implement policies also construct myths. Policy myths and their related organizational myths are constructed at those points where the implementing agency is most vulnerable: around actions undertaken to achieve verboten goals-those goals that are publicly unspeakable because there is no explicit public consensus underlying them. Policy myths, in other words, fill silences in discourse about public policy matters. Yet these myths also facilitate the tacit understanding of and communication about verboten goals. These points are illustrated in a case analysis of the Israel Corporation of Community Centers, an agency created to implement national social policies.