코로나19 펜더믹과 정책학 연구방법의 과제 - Lasswell의 ‘민주주의 정책학’을 다시 돌아보며 -

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In order for public policy to actively respond to wicked policy problems such as the COVID-19 crisis and to provide proper knowledges and means necessary to solve the problems, a new approach needs to be developed. The current knowledge systems of policy science alone will inevitably reveal substantial limitations in solving various social problems that society would face after the COVID-19 crisis. It is time to question how much help the positivist policy science that has dominated policy research could provide in solving wicked problems. Drawing on Lasswell’s ‘policy science of democracy,’ this study addressed three pillars of the policy science framework including multi-method, contextual, and problem-oriented approaches. To overcome the challenges, public science needs to pursue ‘a policy science of deliberative democracy’, to focus more on wicked policy problems, to strengthen the contextual approaches in policy inquiry and data collection, and to switch to mixed-method and trans-disciplinary approaches.

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