WASHINGTON, DC – The best advice I received when taking up policymaking responsibilities in Turkey more than a decade ago was to take “a lot of time and care to develop and communicate the ‘narrative’ to support the policy program that you want to succeed.” The more that economic policy is subject to public debate – that is, the more democracy there is – the more important such policy narratives are.
华盛顿—十多年前我负责土耳其的政策制定，我所听到的最佳建议是“把大量时间和精力花在发展和传达一种‘故事’来支持你所想让其成功的政策计划上。”经济政策越是容易引起公共争论——即民主成分越多——政策故事的重要性就越大。