PPGC66H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Tracheotomy, Rationality, Tax Expenditure
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Drawing on different policy stages, discuss two ways in which post-positivist critiques enhance our understanding of the policy process (42) or challenge power relations within policy making. The objective, systematic and empirical examination of the effects that ongoing policies have on their agendas (in terms of goals they are meant to achieve) Positivism is problematic because since public policy goals are usually not completely clear/explicit, it leaves room for subjective interpretation to determine exactly what was achieved. Can be used to disguise certain facts that the government fears will show the policy in a poor light. Two ways in which post-positivist critiques enhance our understanding of the policy process or challenge power relations within policy making. According to post positivist framework, there can never be an fully unbias, objective evaluation because each researcher has a background and is speaking from a particular class, gender, race, culture etc.
