Reflecting on a Reflective Tool for Policy Analysis Twenty Years after Its Application

Abstract

A reflective tool for policy analysis used in a study of Philippine legislative advisers in 1989 is reviewed prospectively in view of developments in e-social science or electronic applications in evidence-based policy analysis. The review is composed of three parts: (1) a focus on the tool itself, the policy grid, which was based on a psychological method called the repertory grid; (2) current extension, integration, and continuing development of similar tools in web-based platforms; and (3) challenges of interfacing tools described with policy communication concepts synthesized by the author.