Public Policy: Interpretive Approach
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There are two purposes in this article: (1) to study the interpretive concepts and theories and (2) to study the interpretive public policies which are the result of the interpretive concepts and theories. Methodology used in this research is qualitative research, documentary research. This study found that the interpretive concepts and theories divided into 3 groups: (1) descriptive interpretation which consists of two sub-concepts: ethnography and phenomenology; (2) critical interpretation; and (3) postmodern interpretation which consists of 5 sub-concepts: narrative and metanarrative, discourse, deconstruction, language analysis, and governmentality. The interpretive public policies, which are the result of the interpretive concepts and theories, divided into four groups according to the focusing and the essence of content: interpretive public policy, discursive public policy, narrative public policy and collaborative public policy. Researcher suggested that, in theory, there should be focus more on the study of interpretive public policy in order to broaden the scope of body of knowledge about public policy to cover more variety of dimensions. In practice, there should be reduce the role of government agencies and experts in the policy process and increase the role of civil society and stakeholders relating to the policy that lead to the benefit of all concerned groups and can meet the needs of people genuinely.
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