Governance in Crisis and Withering of the Welfare State: The Legacy of the Policy Sciences

In: Policy sciences: integrating knowledge and practice to advance human dignity ; the journal of the Society of Policy Scientists, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 195-203

Abstract

Current dilemmas of governance in advanced industrial Western nations can be analyzed within the common framework of the thesis of the withering of the modern welfare state. It is argued that the policy sciences have a legacy of problem-oriented & value-conscious scholarship, bestowed by Harold D. Lasswell & others, that can & should be taken up in the analysis of the comprehensive problems of governance confronting advanced industrial nations. The requirement that the policy sciences go significantly beyond a managerial perspective & take up the timely but challenging task of linking problem-orientation to contextuality is considered. 28 References. Modified HA.