Towards the Establishment of Normative Policy Analysis in Japan

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  • 規範的政策分析の確立に向けて
  • キハンテキ セイサク ブンセキ ノ カクリツ ニ ムケテ

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<p>Most scholars of public policy studies admit we should pay attention to values and norms when discussing public policy. The number of studies on values and norms relating to public policy is insufficient, however, and the details of　normative policy analysis have yet to be elucidated. In this paper we examine the reasons why normative policy analysis has not been popular and ascertain the importance of normative policy analysis. Furthermore, we explain the necessary conditions to establish normative policy analysis.</p><p>The points of this study are as follows. Firstly, we must devise ways and means to integrate normative policy analysis into the real policy process, even if discourse of values and norms is influential in the political process. Secondly, the purpose of normative policy analysis is not to pursue the truth, but to be a useful tool for policy design. It would be especially useful for consensus building and choosing alternatives. Thirdly, normative policy analysis is expected not only to clarify the meanings of the words involved in values and norms, but to put the feelings and intuitions of people into words. In addition, relationships between values should be analyzed. Some values are considered to be a kind of intrinsic value, but others are just instrumental value. Lastly, we must investigate what values and norms ordinary people respect for a preliminary work for normative policy analysis.</p><p>This paper is based on pragmatism and focuses on the importance of rhetoric, interpretation, and communication.</p>

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