Democracy and the Policy Sciences: Aspirations and operations. By Peter deLeon Policy Studies Journal, Vol.22, No. 2, Summer, 1994,200-213.
In Lasswell's words (1951, p. 15), "the policy sciences of democracy" were "directed towards knowledge needed to improve the practice of democracy." p.200
The policy sciences redux: new roads to post-positivism. By Peter deLeon Policy Studies Journal, Vol.22, No. 1, Spring, 1994,176-184.
The policy sciences have traditionally been oriented towards a positivist epistemological perspective, with economics and many of its applied methodologies serving as the sine qua non of the approach. For a number of reasons, however, these approaches have recently been described as inadequate by themselves in understanding policy dilemmas, let alone prescribing policy remedies. p.176
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