To properly position citizen centricity in public policy making and solidly lay the foundations of future construction, it is first necessary to reveal the notches offered by the two essential basics of public policy analysis, rational, and post-positivist approaches. For such a discovery, it would be an excellent choice to start by questioning the primary emphasis of the approaches from a citizen-centric perspective. While the rational approach emphasizes rational decision-making based on quantitative methods, increasing welfare by making analyses in line with the information in policy analysis and adhering to public choice, the post-positivist approach criticizes it for not being able to meet the needs of a democratic system, makes a distinction between facts and values, emphasizes the importance of values, and moves the structure of policy analysis from a linear, processual, and rational pattern to a complex, multi-voiced, sharply defined, and mostly argumentative pattern. Both approaches contain some notches for citizen centricity. The post-positivist approach, standing out with its emphasis on participation and democracy, offers a more prosperous plane in this regard. The rational approach, on the other hand, attaches importance to information and evidence, especially in the decision-making process, embracing several notches, such as “citizen as the source of information.” In this chapter, we present a hybrid approach covering critical points of both, inspired by the mixed-scanning approach but with a new framework that we have customized for citizen centricity. This hybrid approach offers alternative tools and opportunities for citizens’ direct participation, public value production, and deliberative policy making by attributing an active role to citizens in the policy-making process.