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Disrupted Governance

Disrupted Governance

Disrupted Governance

Towards a New Policy Science
Kris Hartley, The Education University of Hong Kong
Glen David Kuecker, DePauw University, Indiana
March 2022
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    This Element explores the uncertain future of public policy practice and scholarship in an age of radical disruption. Building on foundational ideas in policy sciences, we argue that an anachronistic instrumental rationalism underlies contemporary policy logic and limits efforts to understand new policy challenges. We consider whether the policy sciences framework can be reframed to facilitate deeper understandings of this anachronistic epistemic, in anticipation of a research agenda about epistemic destabilization and contestation. The Element applies this theoretical provocation to environmental policy and sustainability, issues about which policymaking proceeds amid unpredictable contexts and rising sociopolitical turbulence that portend a liminal state in the transition from one way of thinking to another. The Element concludes by contemplating the fate of policy's epistemic instability, anticipating what policy understandings will emerge in a new system, and questioning the degree to which either presages a seismic shift in the relationship between policy and society.

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    March 2022
    Paperback
    9781009125680
    75 pages
    228 × 151 × 6 mm
    0.16kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The Convergence of Crises Leading to Soft Collapse
    • 3. Theoretical Evolution from Instrumental Rationalism to Policy Sciences.
      Authors
    • Kris Hartley , The Education University of Hong Kong
    • Glen David Kuecker , DePauw University, Indiana