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Policy analytics is a discipline that uses the knowledge of political science, sociology, psychology, statistics and other disciplines to analyze and study public policies that involve all areas and levels of social life.
Policy analysis
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- Chinese name
- Policy analysis
- Foreign name
- policy analytics
- Time
- 1960s
- Place
- United States
- Policy analytics is a discipline that uses the knowledge of political science, sociology, psychology, statistics and other disciplines to analyze and study public policies that involve all areas and levels of social life.
- It first emerged in the United States in the late 1960s. The research focus of this discipline is policy consultation, policy implementation and evaluation, policy termination and policy cycle, comparative implementation of public policies, and so on. The salient features of policy analytics are: 1. Attention to theory serving practical politics; 2. Comprehensive use of knowledge from various disciplines to study policies. It reflects the tendency of various disciplines of modern science to intersect and penetrate into each other, as well as the practicality of political science.
- Due to the different conditions in different periods and countries, policy analysis presents a variety of different models and schools, the most striking of which are the decision research model and the policy implementation model.
- The methods and steps commonly used in decision-making research models are: investigation, collection and analysis of data, and establishment of optimal goals; formulation and arrangement of multiple decision-making schemes, and finding the optimal way to achieve the goals; verification and evaluation of different schemes, and suggestion to decision-makers Excellent choice. In the decision research model, the main system theory analysis school is headed by Schalkanski, Dai Yin, Hoferbert and others. They tried to use a systematic analysis to explain the policy making process. They believed that the environment affected the political system to generate policy information, and the internal transformation of the political system transformed the information into public policy. The policy was implemented and evaluated at the same time as the policy output. The effects and impacts they generate are re-entered into the political system through feedback channels. Policy is this kind of input-transformation-output system.
- Scholars who proposed this model include Williams and Elmer. The policy implementation research model has two characteristics: the application of organizational theory and a comparative study of policy implementation. The practical research file of policy analysis has changed the tendency of political science to depart from actual politics, and greatly enriched the research methods of traditional politics, providing a theoretical basis for scientific decision-making, policy revision, and continuation. [1]