Problem definition and re-evaluating a policy: the real successes of a regeneration scheme
Problem definition and re-evaluating a policy: the real successes of a regeneration scheme
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问题定义和重新评估政策：再生计划的真正成功
DOI：
10.1080/19460171.2012.699233
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
P. Matthews
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作者：
P. Matthews
本文试图使用解释性政策分析的技术来质疑客观政策评估的概念，并使用研究结果来开发新的评估和政策改进的新建议。它提供了1989年至2009年期间在两个苏格兰社区的同一套城市再生（或更新）政策的人种学实地调查的证据。分析表明，该政策在四个不同方面被不同地理解为失败或成功：在官方评估的合理性范围内失败;由于更广泛的社会对贫困社区的污名化而失败;当地社区活动家通过当地知识描述他们的生活经验在某些方面失败;并通过当地对物质环境改善的了解而取得成功。它显示了政策问题的定义和评价是如何紧密交织在一起的，因此，要判断一项政策是否成功，就需要在更广泛的社会背景下对政策问题有细致入微的理解。
This article seeks to problematize notions of objective policy evaluation using the techniques of interpretive policy analysis, and use the findings to develop a new evaluation and new proposals for policy improvement. It presents evidence from ethnographic fieldwork on the same set of urban regeneration (or renewal) policies in two Scottish neighborhoods between 1989 and 2009. The analysis showed that the policy was variously understood as a failure or a success in four different ways: as a failure within the rationality of official evaluation; as a failure because of the stigma in wider society against deprived neighborhoods; as a failure in some ways by local community activists describing their lived experience through local knowledge; and as a success through local knowledge of the improvements to the physical environment. It demonstrates how policy problem definition and evaluation are closely intertwined and therefore for a policy to be judged a success requires a nuanced understanding of policy problems within their wider social context.