2010
DOI: 10.1080/19460171003619816
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Debates in French policy studies: from cognitive to discursive approaches

Abstract: Revisiting the emergence and structuring of a scientific discipline is undoubtedly a challenge, even if that discipline has been relatively recently established, as is the case with public policy analysis in France. A much more complete contribution on this area has been published recently by Leca and Muller (2008), but the purpose of our endeavor in these pages is different. We aim to highlight the main trends in public policy analysis in order to explain how, amongst these trends, some have lead to the curre… Show more

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“…The existence of interdependencies between ideas and interests supports the hypothesis that the manner in which an idea imposes itself in the political domain depends on the concrete conditions under which power is exercised. This hypothesis is foundational in cognitive approaches to public policy (Muller, 2000;Zittoun and Demongeot, 2009). Several examples taken from our study cases demonstrate the existence of such interdependencies.…”
Section: Ideas Into Actionmentioning
confidence: 59%
“…The existence of interdependencies between ideas and interests supports the hypothesis that the manner in which an idea imposes itself in the political domain depends on the concrete conditions under which power is exercised. This hypothesis is foundational in cognitive approaches to public policy (Muller, 2000;Zittoun and Demongeot, 2009). Several examples taken from our study cases demonstrate the existence of such interdependencies.…”
Section: Ideas Into Actionmentioning
confidence: 59%
“…The référentiel of public action (or public policy) is its cognitive and normative Downloaded by [Florida State University] at 19:19 22 December 2014 representation, and it implies the definition of its role and place in forms of social organization (Jobert and Muller 1987). It describes the world vision lying beneath public action by using values, norms, algorithms and images (Muller 2003, Zittoun andDemongeot 2009).…”
Section: Participation As a Hegemonic Référentielmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Bien que les premiers chercheurs français aient utilisé le terme « analyse des politiques publiques » pour désigner ce champ, on peut dire que la tradition française s i s it d s le d ut da s les « policy process studies » ; est-à-dire une approche qui privilégie la compréhension des phénomènes de fabrique et de ise e oeu e a e u ega d la ge e t inspiré de la sociologie des organisations et un intérêt marqué pour étudier le rôle des idées et des représentations (Zittoun et Demongeot, 2010) 1 . Bie u ali e t es régulièrement par les travaux internationaux importés en France, les approches françaises ont développé leur propre débat et faiblement o t i u au d ats i te atio au jus u à e e t. Le hoi de p i il gie u o ept o e elui d « action publique » (Lascoumes et Le Galès, 2007) plutôt que celui de « politique publique » par exemple, o sid a t ue e de ie tait t op asso i à l État e t alisateu et à u e cohérence qui peut biaiser le regard du chercheur, est un débat uniquement franco-français ; les anglo-sa o s a a t ja ais o sid que le terme « public policy » était associé à un État centralisé (Halpern, Hassenteufel et Zittoun, à paraître).…”
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