A Study of Policy Making

Editor's Note: As a new, emerging branch of learning, the science of policy making is arousing the close attention of policymakers at various levels as well as theoretical workers. All kinds of complicated and arduous new problems posed by socialist modernization and the increasing complexity of the structure and laws of social activities make a scientific approach to policy making and its modernization an extremely urgent task. Herein lies the necessity and urgency of a philosophical analysis of the question of policy making. A series of problems have arisen, such as scientific policy making and objective laws (including the laws of nature, society, and thought), scientific policy making and practice and recognition, scientific policy making and scientific prediction, scientific method and standard of value in scientific policy making, all of which must be answered from the high plane of philosophy. Meanwhile, the modern science of policy making is showing the trend of comprehensive use of all kinds of n...