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Democracy and Public Policy Analysis

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posted on 2024-06-28, 16:15 authored by Douglas Bennett
Abstract This paper discusses the failure of rational decision approaches to public policy analysis to adequately address the question of democracy. Even though public policies encourage or hinder the development of democracies, most rational choice approaches fail to discuss this issue. The author criticizes some key assumptions of the utilitarian foundations of the rational decision approach. In assigning values only to policy outcomes, the rational decision approach displaces the question of the policy process, hence of democracy. The paper argues that democracy is a different kind of value than the self-interested, individualistic-preferences, the rational choice model is geared to accommodate. Resumen Este trabajo discute el fracaso de enfoque racionalista en considerar la cuestión de la democracia en el análisis de las políticas públicas. A pesar de que las políticas públicas fomentan o impiden el desarrollo de las democracias, la mayoría de los enfoques racionalistas no consiguen discutir este asunto. El autor critica algunas suposiciones claves de los fundamentos utilitaristas del enfoque racionalista. El enfoque racionalista desplaza la cuestión procesual de las políticas fuera de la democracia dado que solo considera a las políticas resultantes. El trabajo argumenta que el modelo racionalista, acostumbrado a tratar con preferencias autocentradas e individualistas, no consigue ligar con la democracia.

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