Teaching pragmatist and constructivist approaches to the policy process
Abstract
This chapter proposes a three-step pathway to teaching pragmatist and constructivist approaches to the policy process adapted for students without a background in sociology and who may be more familiar with positivist perspectives. The first step focuses on the complexity of producing knowledge on society from a sociology of sciences perspective. The second step sheds light on the use of constructivist and pragmatist perspectives to understand the construction of public problems and the agenda setting process. The last step strives to explain how these constructivist and pragmatist perspective approaches can also be used to develop empirical insights into all the dimensions of the policy process.
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Is part of halshs-04661052 Book Philippe Zittoun, Emily St. Denny (Dir.). Handbook of Teaching Public Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.558, 2024, Handbooks of Research on Public Policy series, 978 1 80037 810 0. ⟨10.4337/9781800378117⟩. ⟨halshs-04661052⟩