Public servant’s attitudes : Behaviour under two narratives of participatory planning in Colombia

The decisions of public-sector employees affect the result of the policymaking process. The choices made it by public-sector employees could be influenced by mental models, frameworks, narratives, and legal restrictions that affect the mode they face, think and make decisions about policy problems. The research paper attempts to examine the behaviour of public sector employees and their interaction with the frames and contexts in which public policy is involved. The investigation uses a combination of research methods to produce the information for the analysis. Argument policy analysis provides the identification of two different narratives from one public policy under the same institutional framework. The survey experiment identifies attitudes of public-sector employees evaluating attribute framing effects and motivated reasoning. The survey experiment provides information that supports one of the narratives of the public policy. The analysis describes how attitudes of the public-sector employees and their interaction with clashing frames could lead to different results under conflicting policy-making decisions.