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Associate Prof., Department of Law, Faculty of Law & Social Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

Abstract

Interdisciplinary studies are one of the new fields in epistemology, which have gone beyond the realm of classical studies and offer us a new methodology. Public policy is an interdisciplinary concept in human sciences that is known for its contextual application, as a "specialized concept" to an "academic discipline". This situation shows its importance and high capacity among the concepts of human sciences. Understanding such importance, the present paper seeks to explore this concept in the knowledge of public law. In this regard, this paper achieved these results using a descriptive-analytical method. First; the interdisciplinary nature of public policy makes it difficult to properly and accurately understand this concept in public law. Secondly; since the first place of this concept is in other sciences, so public law can use its capacity only as a succedent knowledge. Thirdly; the reading of the mentioned concept in public law can be evaluated as legal based on its practical context in law, such as judicial policies. Therefore, the concept in public law alone cannot be considered as a specialized establishment. Fourth; it seems that the concepts of politics and policy-making at the moment when they are placed as an interdisciplinary concept among specific sciences have a conceptual color and smell and can be discussed according to the context of a specific knowledge.

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