Iranian Association for Management of Technology Journal of Science and Technology Policy 20080840 12 2 2019 06 22 A Framework for Systematic Analysis of Ethical Issues in S&T Policy A Framework for Systematic Analysis of Ethical Issues in S&T Policy 29 41 13684 FA Arash Moussavi Assistant Professor at National Research Institute for Science Policy, Tehran Iran Keyvan Alasti Assistant Professor at National Research Institute for Science Policy, Tehran, Iran Journal Article 2019 07 17 The ethics of public policy is a branch of applied ethics. Having a look at policy process, it tries to provide analyses on different types of ethical challenges involved in that process and the ways that could resolve those challenges. Issues and problems discussed in the literature of the ethics of public policy are diverse and wide-ranging and a framework has not been proposed yet to systematically regulate that diversity. After providing a review on those diverse issues and themes, this paper proposes a systemic model of public policy and applies the model to regulating ethical themes and issues related to policy process. The framework developed in the paper classifies ethical problems relevant to policy into five main categories: ethical issues arising before decision-making, ethical issues arising after decision-making, ethical issues related to economic-social-institutional structures that affect policy-making, ethical problems arising from the activities of stakeholder groups, and finally, ethical issues related to ideas and normative frameworks in the minds of policy-makers. <br />  The ethics of public policy is a branch of applied ethics. Having a look at policy process, it tries to provide analyses on different types of ethical challenges involved in that process and the ways that could resolve those challenges. Issues and problems discussed in the literature of the ethics of public policy are diverse and wide-ranging and a framework has not been proposed yet to systematically regulate that diversity. After providing a review on those diverse issues and themes, this paper proposes a systemic model of public policy and applies the model to regulating ethical themes and issues related to policy process. The framework developed in the paper classifies ethical problems relevant to policy into five main categories: ethical issues arising before decision-making, ethical issues arising after decision-making, ethical issues related to economic-social-institutional structures that affect policy-making, ethical problems arising from the activities of stakeholder groups, and finally, ethical issues related to ideas and normative frameworks in the minds of policy-makers. <br />  https://jstp.nrisp.ac.ir/article_13684_cf7ec1958f529614b35ee33cc0fb3aac.pdf