Abstract
The characteristics of narrative (or story) have been discussed in the humanities for centuries. Recently, on the other hand, the concept of narrative has also been introduced into some fields of social science, including sociology, political science, social psychology and management, as a key to understanding the nature of human communication and cognition. But it is still not so clear how we can make use of narrative practically for public policy planning and implementation.
In this paper, we reviewed the preceding studies on narrative, focusing especially on the theories and findings which are applicable to communication in public policies, discuss how and where narrative can improve our practical activities and propose an outline and basic ideas of possible future empirical research.
