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Analyzes comitology procedures, processes by which the Commission makes decisions about the implementation of European Union legislation in collaboration with committees of national experts, enacted between July 1987 and July 1995.

AbstractThis paper explicates and reviews the competing approaches to policy analysis. It does so by constructing a methodological taxonomy that enables the identification of competing philosophical methodologies that underpin contending approaches to policy analysis. This is done by reference to contesting understandings of what constitutes knowledge (an epistemological issue) and what exists that is capable of giving rise to consequences (an ontological issue). This philosophical framework is then, illustratively, applied to an examination of the concept of the underclass. Then the epistemological and ontological challenges facing policy analysts seeking to analyze and address policy problems and issues are identified. Meeting these challenges requires the adoption of a methodology that draws insights from the epistemological and ontological syntheses that have emerged within contemporary social theory.

This paper explicates & reviews the competing approaches to policy analysis. It does so by constructing a methodological taxonomy that enables the identification of competing philosophical methodologies that underpin contending approaches to policy analysis. This is done by reference to contesting understandings of what constitutes knowledge (an epistemological issue) & what exists that is capable of giving rise to consequences (an ontological issue). This philosophical framework is then, illustratively, applied to an examination of the concept of the underclass. Then the epistemological & ontological challenges facing policy analysts seeking to analyze & address policy problems & issues are identified. Meeting these challenges requires the adoption of a methodology that draws insights from the epistemological & ontological syntheses that have emerged within contemporary social theory. 1 Figure, 93 References. Adapted from the source document.

Recently in this Journal, Cutting and Kouzmin postulated a three‐phase group decision‐making process. This paper demarcates, within that framework, a set of contending corporate board decision‐making perceptions. It's premise is that how directors determine how investigations should be conducted, evidence should be assessed, and the truth should be decided depends on their epistemological and ontological predisposition. The philosophy of the social sciences offers four contending epistemological and ontological lens used to describe, analyze, evaluate and judge their corporate world. Each is fundamentally flawed. What is needed, then, are reflexive and pluralized corporate governance structures and processes that can accommodate a variety of epistemological and ontological imperatives. The broad conclusion drawn is that good corporate governance requires directors to recognize the limitations of their understanding of corporate governance reality, to treat all truth claims skeptically, and never to resort to self‐deception or self‐delusion just to avoid unpleasant corporate governance truths.

The concept of 'underclass' evokes a multiplicity of attitudes and beliefs about its meaning, existence, causation and, therefore, its resolution. This paper draws upon the philosophy of the social sciences to explicate the contending philosophical perspectives on the 'underclass's' causation and resolution by reference to a taxonomy of methodologies, so enabling the articulation of each methodology's analytical strengths and weaknesses when used to investigate the 'underclass'. The conclusion drawn is that policy analysts must be critically reflective before they seek to describe, explain, understand, judge and address 'underclass'-related problems and issues by drawing upon any theories and methods grounded in anyone of these contending methodological families.