“Public Policy is Like Having a Vaudeville Act”: Languages of Duty and Difference among Think Tank-Affiliated Policy Experts
“Public Policy is Like Having a Vaudeville Act”: Languages of Duty and Difference among Think Tank-Affiliated Policy Experts
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“公共政策就像杂耍表演”：智库附属政策专家的职责语言和差异
DOI：
10.1007/s11133-010-9166-9
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Thomas Medvetz
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作者：
Thomas Medvetz
这份研究报告使用深度访谈、民族志观察和档案记录来考察智库附属政策专家的自我理解。我认为，政策专家利用一系列习语--学术学者、政治助手、企业家和媒体专家的习语--来构建一种独特的、尽管是合成的职业身份。政策专家作用的实质在于不断努力平衡和调和与这些习语相关的相互矛盾的要求。对政策专家复杂的“职业心态”的分析，提供了一个进入智囊团客观社会结构的有用切入点。
This research note uses in-depth interviews, ethnographic observations, and archival records to examine the self-understandings of think tank-affiliated policy experts. I argue that policy experts draw on a series of idioms—those of the academic scholar, the political aide, the entrepreneur, and the media specialist—to construct a unique albeit synthetic professional identity. The essence of the policy expert’s role lies in a continuous effort to balance and reconcile the contradictory imperatives associated with these idioms. An analysis of the policy expert’s mixed “professional psyche” offers a useful point of entry into the objective social structure of the think tank.