analyzing public policy process scholarship in iran

In one way, policy process scholarship has been enriched considerably since 1980s and stage heuristics approach (including stages such as problem identification. Proposing, affirmation, implementation, and evaluation) has been replaced by new theoretical views such as punctuated equilibrium theory, advocacy coalition framework, multiple streams framework, policy diffusion model, policy feedback theory, and so on. On the other way, there are three emergent research streams in policy process scholarship: (1) using theoretical views on different policy areas and then comparing their explanatory power, (2) comparing theoretical views together, and (3) combing and integrating them to achieve grand and broad theoretical view. Yet, examinations revealed that many of Iranian policy process scholars use policy stage heuristic as an analytical and descriptive lens and don’t consider testing, critiquing, and developing new theoretical lens of policy process. In this regard, we have recommended many guidelines to tuning up and accelerating policy process studies in Iran.