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practice means that the Lasswellian
distinction had negative side effects and has
run its course. It is high time to reconnect.

Therefore, in this article we
have redubbed this distinction as the
representative and performative modes
of policy science; and, hopefully, we have
shown that they exist sometimes as open
and sometimes as hidden selective affinities.
Hopefully, our exploratory breaking down
the demarcation zone between knowledge
of and knowledge in policy has brought
to light linkages and convergences that
indicate a more complex task field, a richer
set of skills and broader set of analytic
techniques than conventional accounts
of policy analysis. Like in the sciences,
these go beyond a linear connection from
“pure” or “basic” to “applied” policy science
(Nowotny, Scott, and Gibbons 2001; Ziman
2000). Rather, the idea of reconnection is
to catalyze a permanent policy-reflective
culture of listening and dialogue between
the reflective and the performative modes of
engaging with public policy. In such a way,
practical accounts of policy workers will
inspire policy scholars to reflect better; and
academic accounts of policy processes will
be used as a pragmatic-eclectic “toolkit” for
re-thinking and creating possible practical
trajectories.

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