政策科学中的叙事政策框架及其研究前沿

Research Frontier and Narrative Policy Framework in Policy Science

叙事政策框架(Narrative Policy Framework, NPF)是在叙事学与公共政策分析日益融合背景下,运用政策叙事分析和解释复杂性公共政策过程的一种全新的政策过程理论。对叙事政策框架的现有研究主要集中在理论批评与回应、理论融合探究、实证案例分析3方面;现有创新性研究方法运用的分布特征可归纳为定量研究方法和定性研究方法;因果理论假设的完善和检验、框架的完善和发展都将是未来NPF研究重点探讨的主题。

In the context of the increasingly integrated s tudy between narratology and public policy analysis, Narrative Policy Framework(NPF)is developed as a brand new policy analysis framework by comprehensive application of multi-disciplinary theory knowledge and focusing on policy narrative as the core in public policy process, which is used to analyze and explain intractable and complex public policy processes with policy narratives. This paper teases out NPF ’s theoretical connotation and the internal relation of the three levels of analysis comprehensively, including the basic theory concepts, the policy individual at the micro level, the policy al-liance at the middle level and cultural system environment at the macro level in the three levels of analysis. Then the existing research themes are summarized and analyzed, mainly contents including theoretical criticisms and responses, theoretical integration research,empirical case analysis with sorting out the problems concerned by the existing narrative policy framework research. Innovative research methods used in existing research are also summed up and extracted, which could be summarized as quantitative research method and qualitative research method. Finally on the basis of studying the current situation of NPF, what is needed to be focused on in the future is raised up.