!!!!!!!!!! 05-02-2024 to 12-04-2024 (more information about the schedule will follow January 2024)
AIMS
Deliberation is not only good for policymaking, but also for policy analysis. This course shall provide students with an overview of knowledge of and basic hands-on experience regarding the possibilities and limitations of deliberation as a means of analysing decision-making, especially regarding wicked – and often technological – problems. The aim is to provide a repertoire of interactive, participatory, and deliberative approaches to policy analysis and policy making. The course has the character of a workshop/clinic in which we are experimenting with various approaches along a topic freely chosen by every student (usually the thesis topic).
Learning objectives: After successful completion of this course the student is able to:
- Choose methods for policy analysis in accordance to the analytical task at hand;
- Identify problem-characteristics and choose suiting approaches towards solutions;
- Use methods for deliberative policy analysis and contributions towards solution;
- Contribute to practical policy development.
CONTENT
Objectives:
- Provide an overview of concepts/methods/ideas of interpretive policy analysis in a deliberative context.
- Provide an overview of concepts/methods/ideas of interpretive policy analysis in a deliberative context.
- Provide in-depth knowledge of and basic hands-on experience with some methods of policy analysis.
Course description: In this course policy analysis will be considered as 'a process of multidisciplinary inquiry designed to create, critically assess, and communicate information that is useful in understanding and improving policies' (Dunn 2004). Assignments will cover issues related to (technological) innovation and use and production of knowledge.
Spectrum of contents:
- Researching practices, deliberations, arguments, framings, discourses
- The CTA/CINA approach: Constructive Technology/Innovation Assessment
- Doing CTA/CINA
- The art of co-production
- Doing co-production
- Socio-Technical Integration Research (STIR)
- Doing STIR
- Online deliberation
- Deliberating with the Stanford Online Deliberation Platform.
ASSESSMENT
Examination: several Q&A assignments (pass/fail) plus one final written assignment (100%) in which you plan a deliberation process for generating strategic intelligence about a wicked policy issue. All assignments need to be completed and/or graded 5,5 of higher to pass the course.
REQUIRED MATERIALS
Course material: papers and articles on specific approaches (CANVAS).
RECOMMENDED MATERIALS
Rip, A. (2018). Futures of Science and Technology in Society. Springer VS.
NOTE ON DATES
This course will take place from February to April 2024. The exact dates will be announced approximately by mid January 2024. Therefore, if you are interested in this course, kindly check this webpage again around mid-January.