The logic of ‘Policy’ and successful policies

✍ Scribed by Donna H. Kerr

• Book ID: 104637103
• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 881 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0032-2687
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00137628

✦ Synopsis

Developed on the premise that how we conceive of 'policy' and 'successful policy' guides policy sciences' research and evaluation, this paper responds to the conceptual questions of "what is a policy?" and "when is a policy successful?" Formal or logical conditions are established to distinguish 'policy' from related concepts. The notion 'relevant public' is introduced to distinguish public policies from private policies and to identify fairly-declared policies. Further, conditions are developed that can be used as logical tests for three types of policy success: implementation success, instrumental success and success in normative justification.