...evidence and arguments to be used in the course of public debate. Its crucial argumentative aspect is what distinguishes policy analysis from the academic social...technical, more or less sophisticated, but they must persuade if they are to be taken seriously in the forums of public deliberation. Thus, analysts, like...

...analysis from the academic social sciences on one hand and from problem-solving methodologies st»ch as operations research on the other. The arguments analysts produce may be more or less 'rrhnical. more or less sophisticated, but they must persuade if they are to be taken seriously in...

...the ways of 'doing things with words' (Majone, 1989: 7). 'Its crucial argumentative aspect is what distinguishes policy analysis from the academic social...methodologies such as operations research on the other' (Majone, 1989: 7). In a similar direction, Deborah Stone's Policy Paradox (first published in 1988)...