Reponses to the 'Policy Science' Problem : Reflections on the Politics of Development

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Fforde, Adam ORCID: 0000-0001-6088-8310 (2010) Reponses to the 'Policy Science' Problem : Reflections on the Politics of Development. Development in Practice, 20 (2). pp. 188-204. ISSN 0961-4524

Abstract

Taking as its point of departure the failure of the ‘policy science’ project, the article discusses the declining authority of ‘one size fits all’ policy advice. It relates this to the absence of a robust empirical basis for such positions, as shown by the cross-country regressions literature, and relates it also to changes in a range of disciplines, including natural sciences and mathematics. It discusses the rising tolerance for inconsistency between implementation logics and argues that these issues, while of general importance, are most obvious in the context of development, where ‘one size fits all’ policy logics have been heavily contested.

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Item type	Article
URI	https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/7275
DOI	10.1080/09614520903564157
Official URL	http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0961452...
Subjects	Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (CSES) Historical > FOR Classification > 1402 Applied Economics Historical > SEO Classification > 9499 Other Law, Politics and Community Services
Keywords	ResPubID20504, aid, gender and diversity, globalisation, governance and public policy, methods
Citations in Scopus	9 - View on Scopus
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