The policy transaction perspective: A pragmatist-constructivist approach to the policy process 政策交易视角:政策过程的实用主义-建构主义方法 La perspectiva de las transacciones de políticas: Un enfoque pragmático-constructivista del proceso de formulación de políticas

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to advance a pragmatist-constructivist perspective on the policy process. Building on the pragmatist concept of “transaction,” this perspective suggests that we can further illuminate the policy process by moving towards a more relational analysis that focuses on the emergent co-construction of actors and issues. It stresses that policy processes are always a form of valuation where values are discovered and invented and through which interests are staked out and identities are forged. The article conceptualizes the policy process as an assemblage of intervening policy situations where policy valuation, problematization, and policy formulation take place and where collective action and problems/solutions are built and tested. The Policy Transaction perspective ultimately opens our eyes to how policy processes form and define the relationship between state and society.

本文旨在提出一种针对政策过程的实用主义-建构主义视角。基于实用主义的“交易”概念，这一观点表明，我们能通过转向更加关系化的分析来进一步阐明政策过程，这种关系化的分析聚焦于行动者和问题的共同建构。本文强调，政策过程始终是一种评估形式，在这种评估中，价值被发现和发明，利益被确定，身份被塑造。本文将政策过程概念化为干预政策情境的集合，其中政策评估、问题化和政策制定在此发生，并且集体行动和问题/解决方案在此建立和测试。政策交易视角最终让我们看到政策过程如何形成和定义国家与社会的关系。