Policy-making as Story-making
This paper analyzes the policy-making process behind welfare policies for the elderly in relation to the political and ideological landscape in the 1960-70s. Changing social reality, political and ideological trends provided the momentum for pushing particular policies, that policy-makers were able to take strategic advantage of. This aspect of policy-making can be compared to story-making. In examining the “story-making” processes, this paper aims to elucidate how actors in the policy-making process chose and pushed forward agenda under the influence of contemporary political and ideological trends.