Understanding narratives in public policy, narrative policy analysis, the NPF, and other iterations

1. The
reading has presented three different ways of engaging narratives as a way of
breaking down policy claims or to construct a policy claim.  Do you think that Roe’s approach is
significantly different than the approaches presented by the Narrative Policy
Framework or by Rochefort and Cobbs understanding of framing problem
definitions?  Are these semantics
differences? Or do you think there are meaningful differences in the approaches?  Which approach seems to be more useful in
your opinion as a public administrator who may need to convince policy makers
to adopt a new solutions strategy?

2. Narrative policy analysis in any form is very dependent on the assumption that our understanding of the world, including public policy, is based upon social constructions rather than solely on empirical data. What is your understanding of social construction as a policy concept? In what ways does the reading unpack this assumption (either explicitly or implicitly) Do you share this assumption? Why or why not?

Responses to  prompt #2 can use the following additional readings:

Schneider A, & Ingram H (1993). Social construction of target populations: Implications for politics and policy. The American Political Science Review, 87(2), 334–347. 10.2307/2939044

Berger, P. L., & Luckmann, T. (1991). The social construction of reality. Penguin Books.

1. Narrative Policy Analysis: Theory and Practice by Emery Roe

2. ATTACHED – Rochefort and Cobb Chapter1

3. ATTACHED – Schlaufer et. al. 2022. “Narrative
Policy Framework: A Traveler’s Guide to Policy Stories” PVS
Politische Vierteljahresschrift. March 29.Download
Schlaufer et. al. 2022. “Narrative Policy Framework: A Traveler’s Guide to
Policy Stories” PVS Politische Vierteljahresschrift. March 29.

4. ATTACHED- Hand, Mark, et. al.
2023. “The role of policy narrators during crisis: A micro-level analysis
of sourcing, synthesizing, and sharing policy narratives in rural
Texas.” Policy Studies Journal 51(4):
834-868.

one additional journal article, published in the U.S. later than 2015 and relative to landuse policy, affordable housing policy, or urban planning should be included.