Policy Sciences

期刊简介：The policy sciences are distinctive within the policy movement in that they embrace the scholarly traditions innovated and elaborated by Harold D. Lasswell and Myres S. McDougal. Within these pages we provide space for approaches that are problem-oriented, contextual, and multi-method in orientation. There are many other journals in which authors can take top-down, deductive, and large-sample approach or adopt a primarily theoretical focus. Policy Sciences encourages systematic and empirical investigations in which problems are clearly identified from a practical and theoretical perspective, are well situated in the extant literature, and are investigated utilizing methodologies compatible with contextual, as opposed to reductionist, understandings. We tend not to publish pieces that are solely theoretical, but favor works in which the applied policy lessons are clearly articulated. Policy Sciences favors, but does not publish exclusively, works that either explicitly or implicitly utilize the policy sciences framework. The policy sciences can be applied to articles with greater or lesser intensity to accommodate the focus of an author’s work. At the minimum, this means taking a problem oriented, multi-method or contextual approach. At the fullest expression, it may mean leveraging central theory or explicitly applying aspects of the framework, which is comprised of three principal dimensions: (1) social process, which is mapped in terms of participants, perspectives, situations, base values, strategies, outcomes and effects, with values (power, wealth, enlightenment, skill, rectitude, respect, well-being, and affection) being the key elements in understanding participants’ behaviors and interactions; (2) decision process, which is mapped in terms of seven functions—intelligence, promotion, prescription, invocation, application, termination, and appraisal; and (3) problem orientation, which comprises the intellectual tasks of clarifying goals, describing trends, analyzing conditions, projecting developments, and inventing, evaluating, and selecting alternatives. There is a more extensive core literature that also applies and can be visited at the policy sciences website: http://www.policysciences.org/classicworks.cfm. In addition to articles that explicitly utilize the policy sciences framework, Policy Sciences has a long tradition of publishing papers that draw on various aspects of that framework and its central theory as well as high quality conceptual pieces that address key challenges, opportunities, or approaches in ways congruent with the perspective that this journal strives to maintain and extend.Officially cited as: Policy Sci

【译文】政策科学在政策运动中具有独特性，因为它包含了哈罗德·D·拉斯韦尔和迈尔斯·S·麦克道格尔所创新和阐述的学术传统。在这些页面中，我们为以问题为导向、情境化和多方法为导向的方法提供了空间。有许多其他期刊允许作者采用自上而下、演绎和大规模样本的方法，或者主要关注理论。政策科学鼓励系统性和实证研究，在这些研究中，问题从实践和理论角度被清楚地识别，在现有文献中得到妥善定位，并使用与情境理解相兼容的方法进行研究。我们倾向于不发表纯粹理论性的作品，而更倾向于发表应用政策教训清晰阐述的作品。政策科学倾向于但不限于发表那些明确或隐含利用政策科学框架的作品。政策科学可以根据作者工作的重点以不同的强度应用于文章。至少，这意味着采取问题导向、多方法或情境化的方法。在充分表达时，这可能意味着利用核心理论或明确应用框架的某些方面，该框架由三个主要维度组成：（1）社会过程，通过参与者、观点、情境、基本价值观、策略、结果和影响来映射，其中价值观（权力、财富、启蒙、技能、正直、尊重、福祉和亲情）是理解参与者行为和互动的关键要素；（2）决策过程，通过七个功能——情报、推广、规定、召唤、应用、终止和评估来映射；（3）问题导向，包括阐明目标、描述趋势、分析条件、预测发展以及发明、评估和选择替代方案的知识任务。还有一个更广泛的核心理念文献，可以在政策科学网站上访问：http://www.policysciences.org/classicworks.cfm。除了明确利用政策科学框架的文章外，政策科学还长期出版借鉴该框架及其核心理论各个方面的论文，以及高质量的概念性作品，这些作品以与该期刊力求维持和扩展的视角一致的方式解决关键挑战、机遇或方法。