The differentiation made is important, because interpretativism 38 IMPLEMENTING PUBLIC POLICY TABLE 2.1 Scholarly attention to the ‘postmodern condition’ Epistemological stance Stance on democracy Positivist Interpretative Neutral ‘Infocracy’ ‘Verbal renewal’ Deliberative ‘Interactive policy ‘The listening democracy making’ bureaucrat’ and postmodernism cannot be equated. Aiming at ‘telling stories’, postmodernist scholars generally are interpretativists.