Towards productive functions? A systematic review of institutional failure, its causes and consequences

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The policy sciences are distinctive within the policy movement in that they embrace the scholarly traditions innovated and elaborated by Harold D. Lasswell and Myres S. McDougal. Within these pages we provide space for approaches that are problem-oriented, contextual, and multi-method in orientation. There are many other journals in which authors can take top-down, deductive, and large-sample approach or adopt a primarily theoretical focus. Policy Sciences encourages systematic and empirical investigations in which problems are clearly identified from a practical and theoretical perspective, are well situated in the extant literature, and are investigated utilizing methodologies compatible with contextual, as opposed to reductionist, understandings. We tend not to publish pieces that are solely theoretical, but favor works in which the applied policy lessons are clearly articulated. Policy Sciences favors, but does not publish exclusively, works that either explicitly or implicitly utilize the policy sciences framework. The policy sciences can be applied to articles with greater or lesser intensity to accommodate the focus of an author’s work. At the minimum, this means taking a problem oriented, multi-method or contextual approach. At the fullest expression, it may mean leveraging central theory or explicitly applying aspects of the framework, which is comprised of three principal dimensions: (1) social process, which is mapped in terms of participants, perspectives, situations, base values, strategies, outcomes and effects, with values (power, wealth, enlightenment, skill, rectitude, respect, well-being, and affection) being the key elements in understanding participants’ behaviors and interactions; (2) decision process, which is mapped in terms of seven functions—intelligence, promotion, prescription, invocation, application, termination, and appraisal; and (3) problem orientation, which comprises the intellectual tasks of clarifying goals, describing trends, analyzing conditions, projecting developments, and inventing, evaluating, and selecting alternatives. There is a more extensive core literature that also applies and can be visited at the policy sciences website: http://www.policysciences.org/classicworks.cfm. In addition to articles that explicitly utilize the policy sciences framework, Policy Sciences has a long tradition of publishing papers that draw on various aspects of that framework and its central theory as well as high quality conceptual pieces that address key challenges, opportunities, or approaches in ways congruent with the perspective that this journal strives to maintain and extend.Officially cited as: Policy Sci

政策科学在政策运动中的独特之处在于，它们包含了哈罗德·D·托马斯所创新和阐述的学术传统。拉斯韦尔和迈尔斯S。麦克杜格尔在这些页面中，我们提供了空间，为方法是面向问题的，上下文和多方法的方向。还有许多其他期刊的作者可以采取自上而下、演绎和大样本的方法，或采取主要的理论重点。政策科学鼓励系统的和实证的调查，其中的问题是明确确定从实践和理论的角度，在现有的文献很好地定位，并利用方法学兼容的上下文，而不是还原论，理解。我们倾向于不发表纯粹理论性的文章，而是倾向于那些清晰阐述应用政策教训的作品。政策科学倾向于，但不专门出版，明确或隐含地利用政策科学框架的作品。政策科学可以应用于文章或多或少的强度，以适应作者的工作重点。至少，这意味着采取以问题为导向的、多方法的或上下文相关的方法。最全面地说，这可能意味着利用中心理论或明确应用框架的各个方面，框架由三个主要方面组成：（1）社会过程，其根据参与者、观点、情境、基本价值观、策略、结果和效果来映射，其中价值观（权力、财富、启蒙、技能、正直、尊重、幸福和情感）是理解参与者的行为和互动的关键要素;（2）决策过程，它被映射为智能、提升、处方、调用、应用、终止和评价七种功能;（3）问题导向，包括明确目标、描述趋势、分析条件、预测发展、发明、评估和选择替代方案等智力任务。还有更广泛的核心文献也适用，可以在政策科学网站上访问：http://www.policysciences.org/classicworks.cfm。除了明确利用政策科学框架的文章外，《政策科学》也有发表论文的悠久传统，这些论文借鉴了该框架及其核心理论的各个方面，以及高质量的概念文章，这些文章以与本杂志努力保持和扩展的视角一致的方式解决关键挑战、机遇或方法。政策科学

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