STAKEHOLDERS AND PERSPECTIVISM IN QUALITATIVE POLICY EVALUATION: A REALIST REFLECTION
STAKEHOLDERS AND PERSPECTIVISM IN QUALITATIVE POLICY EVALUATION: A REALIST REFLECTION
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定性政策评估中的利益相关者和视角：现实反思
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2009
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S. Shortall
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S. Porter;S. Shortall
本文探讨了将利益相关者纳入政策研究的认识论基础。虽然它承认利益攸关方的投入为理解复杂的政策和方案提供了必要的专业知识和经验知识，但它认为，假设包括利益攸关方在内的所有政策解释都应具有同等效力的方法，我们称之为相对主义视角主义，通过允许权力取代方法的严谨性作为主要的研究动力，破坏了稳健研究的可能性。有人指出，当研究是定性的时，这个问题往往更加尖锐。一项关于共同农业政策改革的性别影响的研究被用来作为一个说明性的例子，说明研究如何被相对主义视角主义所损害。有人认为，现实主义研究方法独特地提供了保持认识论稳健性的能力，同时也能够适当考虑利益相关者的观点。
This paper examines the epistemological bases for the inclusion of stakeholders in policy research. While it concedes that the input of stakeholders provides essential expert and experiential knowledge for the understanding of complex policies and programmes, it contends that the approach which assumes that all interpretations of policy including those of stakeholders should be afforded equal validity, which we term relativist perspectivism, undermines the possibility of robust research by allowing power to replace methodological rigour as the primary research dynamic. It is noted that this problem tends to be more acute when the research is qualitative. A study into the gendered effects of Common Agricultural Policy reforms is used as an illustrative example of how research can be compromised by relativist perspectivism. It is argued that realist research methodologies uniquely provide the capacity to maintain epistemological robustness, while also being able to take due account of the perspectives of stakeholders.