Democracy and the Policy Sciences |
| |
| Authors: | Peter deLeon |
| |
| Institution: | Peter deLeon;is a professor of public policy at the University of Colorado at Denver. His most recent book is Thinking About Political Corruption (M. E. Sharpe, 1993). |
| |
| Abstract: | The policy sciences approach has recently came under sustained criticism for being insensitive to the values and preferences of the ordinary citizen. This paper attempts to address these problems by outlining a post-positivist approach, drawing upon the works of Jürgen Habermas. The paper proposes a "participatory policy analysis" that utilizes a sampling of affected citizens to create a "policy forum" to inform the policymaker of citizens' positions on important policy issues. |
| |
| Keywords: | |
|
|
