Abstract
The paper aims to locate the state of policy analysis in the Czech Republic within the context of the discipline development in the West and aims to answer the question whether it is possible to describe the Czech policy analysis as being positivist or postpositivist. After focusing on the theoretical delimitation of the positivist and postpositivist streams and describing the characteristics of policy analysis in the Czech lands the paper identifies similarities and differences between the development in the West and the Czech Republic.
Finally, public contracts in R&D for the needs of state launched in recent years by three Czech ministries are analysed. The conclusion about the state of the contemporary Czech policy analysis (not scientific discipline but practice on the level of ministries) is then made - based on preceding analysis.
Policy analysis in the Czech Republic in this special executive field is evaluated as underdeveloped or slightly positivist.