Toward a Theory of Collaborative Policy Networks: Identifying Structural Tendencies
Toward a Theory of Collaborative Policy Networks: Identifying Structural Tendencies
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走向协作政策网络理论：识别结构趋势
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2009
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D. Varda
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P. Deleon;D. Varda
对“政策科学民主化”的支持导致了一些框架和理论的发展，以加强政策分析的规范性、多学科方法。然而，这种方法受到了质疑，因为它未能产生其科学愿望所隐含的客观经验和规范标准。在各种标题下提出的一个考虑是“参与性政策分析”。这是一个方法上的建议，扩大了以讨论或审议方式参与制定和执行公共政策的行为者/利益攸关方的范围。虽然关于政策网络的许多研究都集中在这类网络的管理和协调上（即，合作管理），很少有人关注网络分析作为一种参与性政策分析方法。我们提出了一个理论的“合作政策网络”，不仅检查一组利益相关者的组成或任何两个利益相关者之间的伙伴关系，但这些利益相关者的方式嵌入在不同程度的制度化结构和话语的倾向，他们之间的交流，导致政策的倡议，实施，评估，并可能终止。合作政策网络的特点是话语属性，特别是互惠性，代表性，平等性，参与性决策和合作领导。我们认为，这种研究的结果可以确定的结构签名的合作政策网络，作为“邮票”的共同性质，这种网络，如果培育，可以通知和改善的尝试，合作伙伴网络，以实现政策目标。
Support for the “democratization of the policy sciences” has led to the development of a number of frameworks and theories to enhance the normative, multidisciplinary approach to policy analysis. However, this approach has been challenged for failing to produce the objective empirical and normative standards implied by its scientific aspirations. One consideration that has been advanced under a variety of rubrics is “participatory policy analysis.” This is a methodological proposal that expands the range of actors/stakeholders involved in the making and execution of public policy in a discursive or deliberative mode. While much of the research on policy networks is focused on the management and coordination of such networks (i.e., collaborative management), there is little attention on analysis of networks as a participatory policy analytical approach. We propose a theory of “collaborative policy networks” that examines not only the stakeholder composition of a group or the partnerships between any two stakeholders but also the way these stakeholders are embedded in various degrees of institutionalized structure and the discursive tendencies of exchange among them that leads to policy initiative, implementation, evaluation, and possibly termination. Collaborative policy networks are characterized by discursive properties, specifically reciprocity, representation, equality, participatory decision making, and collaborative leadership. We suggest that the results of such research can identify structural signatures of collaborative policy networks that serve as “stamps” of the common nature of such networks that, if fostered, can inform and improve the attempt of networks of partners to achieve policy goals.