公共政策研究の一つの捉え方―主として行政学の立場から―1

抄録

There are many approaches to study public policies, because “Policy Studies” have not yet been established as one academic field. This article tries to put these various approaches in order, form the Public Administration perspective. This paper checks many definitions of the term “policy” in the various studies in order to make sure of the confusion in using the term. First of all, some classifications of policy are introduced. At the second, this article shows that various policy studies are interested in which types of policy. Finally, the relation between policy studies and policy process (e.g. policy decision, policy analysis, policy implementation, and policy evaluation) is examined by using the model presented by S. Nagel. Although Political Science and Public Administration contribute policy studies in some sense, it is necessary that many other fields of social science are integrated to establish “Public Policy Study”.